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This is the oldest thing on the property.",{"time":592,"what":593},"07:45","Yoga or qi gong",{"time":595,"what":596},"09:00","Breakfast",{"time":598,"what":599,"note":600},"10:30","Treatment block","Two treatments across TCM, Thai bodywork and naturopathy, per your assignment.",{"time":602,"what":603},"13:00","Lunch",{"time":605,"what":606},"14:30","Free — or a consultation",{"time":608,"what":609},"16:30","Breathwork or a second treatment",{"time":611,"what":612},"18:00","Sunset sit above the sea",{"time":614,"what":615},"19:00","Dinner, finished early",[617,618,619,620,621,622,581],"Ten nights","Arrival consultation and assessments","Daily treatments per the assigned programme","All meals","Meditation, yoga and breathwork","Airport transfers from Samui",[624,625,626],"Flights and insurance — flights quoted separately","Colon hydrotherapy, which we do not include or recommend","Treatments outside the assigned programme",[628,633,637],{"start":629,"end":630,"note":631,"places":632},"2026-09-14","2026-09-24","Quiet season",8,{"start":634,"end":635,"note":636,"places":13},"2027-02-08","2027-02-18","Best weather",{"start":638,"end":639,"note":640,"places":641},"2027-03-15","2027-03-25","Dry",11,[643,646],{"q":644,"a":645},"Why not the detox programme?","Because its core is colon hydrotherapy and juice fasting, and the evidence for the former is poor while the risks — electrolyte disturbance, dehydration, rarely perforation — are real. The supervised fasting has a better case. If you want a detox we will discuss it with the physician on site, but we will not sell you the colonics.",{"q":647,"a":648},"How steep is steep?","Genuinely steep. The property is built into a hillside above the sea and some rooms involve a hundred-odd steps. Say so at booking and they will place you centrally; do not discover it on arrival.","photo-1516815231560-8f41ec531527","Clear shallow water on a Thai island",[652,660,669],{"band":653,"label":654,"months":655,"sharing":656,"single":657,"note":659},"low","Low season","October to December",{"amount":483,"currency":51},{"amount":658,"currency":51},6780,"Samui runs on its own monsoon calendar and takes its rain when the rest of Thailand is dry. Rates fall sharply and the island empties.",{"band":661,"label":662,"months":663,"sharing":664,"single":666,"note":668},"shoulder","Shoulder","April to June and September",{"amount":665,"currency":51},6400,{"amount":667,"currency":51},7680,"Hot, bright and quiet. Very good value for a treatment stay.",{"band":427,"label":670,"months":671,"sharing":672,"single":674,"note":676},"High season","January to March, July and August",{"amount":673,"currency":51},7420,{"amount":675,"currency":51},8960,"The dry northern-winter months and the European summer. The island is busy and the rates reflect it.",[678,683,686,690],{"nights":679,"label":680,"factor":681,"note":682},7,"The week",0.74,"Enough to stop. Not always enough to start again.",{"nights":543,"label":684,"factor":41,"note":685,"recommended":365},"The reset","The length the burnout protocols are written for, and the one we book most.",{"nights":544,"label":687,"factor":688,"note":689},"The fortnight",1.36,"Where the exhaustion is measured in years. The extra four nights are the consolidation.",{"nights":691,"label":692,"factor":693,"note":694},21,"Three weeks",1.94,"Rare, and prescribed rather than chosen.",[696,700,704,708],{"value":697,"label":698,"detail":699},"22+","hours of treatment","Across naturopathic, traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic modalities, assigned from the consultation.",{"value":701,"label":702,"detail":703},"4","hours of consultation","Wellness assessment, bio-impedance, nutrition and a life-coaching session.",{"value":705,"label":706,"detail":707},"70+","practitioners on staff","Naturopaths, nurses, nutritionists, TCM practitioners, physiotherapists and yoga teachers — the largest clinical team in this atlas.",{"value":709,"label":710,"detail":711},"30+","classes a week","Yoga, qi gong, meditation, fitness and the seminar programme, all included and all optional.","Per person for ten nights, including the room, all programme meals, the treatment hours below, the wellness consultation and bio-impedance assessment, the full daily class timetable and return airport transfers — which the house includes for every guest on a wellness programme. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":714,"team":715,"consultations":716},"A very large practitioner team by the standards of this market, across dedicated general, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic and consultation rooms.","Programmes open with a wellness consultation and a bio-impedance assessment, and the treatment plan is written from those rather than sold in advance.","An opening consultation, a mid-programme review and a departure session with a written plan.",{"amount":483,"currency":51},{"amount":658,"currency":51},{"slug":720,"name":721,"resortSlug":162,"modalitySlug":12,"hook":722,"intention":723,"concerns":724,"nights":543,"groupSize":725,"intensity":726,"overview":727,"suitedTo":730,"notSuitedTo":735,"phases":739,"dayShape":762,"sampleDay":763,"included":790,"excluded":793,"departures":795,"faqs":802,"image":806,"imageAlt":807,"bands":808,"durations":823,"counted":831,"priceIncludes":848,"care":849,"price":853,"singlePrice":854,"resortName":163,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":54,"destinationName":55,"country":56},"absolute-yoga-immersion","Yoga immersion","A serious daily practice schedule at a third of what the flagship houses charge.","learn",[225],16,"moderate",[728,729],"A large, genuinely busy daily schedule — vinyasa, yin, Pilates and pranayama — with enough choice that an experienced practitioner and a relative beginner can both fill a day usefully.","It is the affordable one, and that is the point: the format spread from Samui because this house priced a serious programme at a third of the flagship rate.",[731,732,733,734],"Building a daily practice habit over ten consecutive days","Anyone wanting volume and variety rather than a single lineage","Guests on a budget who still want structure","Sociable travellers — this is the friendliest house on the list",[736,737,738],"Anyone wanting a single-lineage immersion; the schedule is deliberately eclectic","Guests who dislike a busy, compact property","Anyone here for the detox programmes, which we do not sell",[740,748,756],{"title":741,"days":742,"body":743,"points":744},"Settling","Days 1–3","Finding the classes that suit you, and an honest assessment of what your practice can absorb daily.",[745,746,747],"Schedule orientation","Practice assessment","Two to three classes daily",{"title":749,"days":750,"body":751,"points":752},"Volume","Days 4–8","Three to four classes a day if you want them, with bodywork twice in the week to keep the load survivable.",[753,754,755],"Three to four classes daily","Thai bodywork twice weekly","Pranayama daily",{"title":757,"days":577,"body":758,"points":759},"Consolidating","A written home schedule that is realistic about the week you will actually go back to.",[760,761],"Written home schedule","Four-week follow-up","Nothing is compulsory. Most guests settle at two classes a day and add a third on good days.",[764,767,769,772,774,778,781,784,787],{"time":588,"what":765,"note":766},"Morning vinyasa","Ninety minutes.",{"time":768,"what":596},"08:45",{"time":598,"what":770,"note":771},"Pilates or a second practice","Optional, and about half the group goes.",{"time":773,"what":603},"12:30",{"time":775,"what":776,"note":777},"14:00","Free","Beach, pool, or sleep.",{"time":779,"what":780},"16:00","Yin or restorative",{"time":782,"what":783},"17:30","Pranayama and meditation",{"time":785,"what":786},"18:30","Dinner",{"time":788,"what":789},"20:00","Optional evening talk",[617,791,792,620,622],"Unlimited daily classes","Two Thai bodywork sessions",[624,794],"Detox and colonic programmes, which we do not sell",[796,799],{"start":797,"end":798,"note":631,"places":394},"2026-09-07","2026-09-17",{"start":800,"end":801,"note":640,"places":725},"2027-03-01","2027-03-11",[803],{"q":804,"a":805},"Will three classes a day break me?","It might, and the teachers will tell you so. Most guests settle at two and add a third on good days. The point of ten nights is consistency, not heroics.","photo-1544367567-0f2fcb009e0b","A held posture in silhouette at sunset",[809,813,818],{"band":653,"label":654,"months":655,"sharing":810,"single":811,"note":659},{"amount":60,"currency":51},{"amount":812,"currency":51},2280,{"band":661,"label":662,"months":663,"sharing":814,"single":816,"note":668},{"amount":815,"currency":51},2150,{"amount":817,"currency":51},2580,{"band":427,"label":670,"months":671,"sharing":819,"single":821,"note":676},{"amount":820,"currency":51},2490,{"amount":822,"currency":51},3010,[824,826,829],{"nights":679,"label":680,"factor":681,"note":825},"A solid immersion for a first serious yoga stay.",{"nights":543,"label":827,"factor":41,"note":828,"recommended":365},"The immersion","The length at which a practice changes rather than merely resumes.",{"nights":544,"label":687,"factor":688,"note":830},"For teachers and long-term practitioners, or anyone building towards a training.",[832,836,840,844],{"value":833,"label":834,"detail":835},"40+","classes available","A very full daily timetable — yoga, pilates, muay thai, meditation and breathwork, all included.",{"value":837,"label":838,"detail":839},"5","personal sessions","One to one, to correct what a group class cannot see.",{"value":841,"label":842,"detail":843},"2","studios","Plus a reformer pilates studio, which very few houses at this price have.",{"value":845,"label":846,"detail":847},"15","minutes from the airport","The shortest transfer in this atlas, which matters more than it sounds after a long-haul.","Per person for ten nights, including the room, all meals from the health kitchen, the full class timetable, the personal sessions below and return transfers from Samui airport, fifteen minutes away. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":850,"team":851,"consultations":852},"Wellness consultants and a large yoga faculty. There is no physician here and the supervision is lighter than at the medical houses — we would rather say that than let the page imply otherwise.","Personal sessions are one to one; everything else is a timetable you can take as much or as little of as you want.","An opening wellness consultation and a closing review.",{"amount":60,"currency":51},{"amount":812,"currency":51},[856],{"slug":54,"name":55,"place":857,"country":56,"countryCode":858,"cluster":9,"fame":41,"modalities":859,"hook":860,"caseFor":861,"hardFacts":866,"caveat":872,"season":873,"seasonNote":874,"practical":875,"figures":888,"faqs":901,"image":649,"imageAlt":908,"gallery":909,"coords":912,"gateway":915,"tempC":936,"climateNote":942,"leisure":943,"extensions":971,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":984,"minNights":543,"maxNights":543},"The south and north coasts","TH",[58],"The island where the Western detox holiday was productised — and where the season is the most misunderstood in Thai travel.",[862,863,864,865],"Thai traditional medicine is a licensed profession. The Thai Traditional Medical Professions Act B.E. 2556 (2013) regulates practitioners through a statutory council, and the Health Establishment Act of 2016 licenses spa and massage businesses separately — so the distinction between a practitioner and a shopfront is a legal one, not a marketing one.","Nuad Thai was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2019.","The programmes are old. Kamalaya, built around a cave used by Buddhist monks for meditation retreat, has run essentially the same structure for two decades, which in this field is an unusually long track record.","Thailand is a serious wellness economy rather than a fashionable one: Global Wellness Institute data puts its wellness tourism spend around USD 14 billion, fifteenth in the world.",[867,868,869,870,871],"Thai Traditional Medical Professions Act B.E. 2556 (2013) — licensed profession under a statutory council.","Health Establishment Act B.E. 2559 (2016) — spa and massage businesses licensed by the Department of Health.","Nuad Thai inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list, December 2019.","Kamalaya is built around a former monks’ meditation cave; the name means \"Lotus Realm\".","November is Samui’s wettest month, averaging roughly 445 mm of rain.","The signature Samui product — multi-day fasting plus colon hydrotherapy — rests on a weak evidence base, and we will say so before you book. Colonic irrigation has never been shown to remove \"toxins\" and carries real risk: electrolyte disturbance, dehydration, disruption of gut flora and, rarely, bowel perforation. Supervised fasting itself has a better case, and the properties we list run daily bloods and a structured re-feeding week. We do not sell the colonics.",[41,23,23,23,41,23,23,23,41,42,42,42],"Samui does not follow the mainland or Andaman calendar, and this catches people out constantly. The northeast monsoon pushes across the Gulf from October, so October to December is Samui’s genuine wet season — November is the wettest month of the year. February to April and June to August are the reliable windows.",[876,879,882,885],{"label":877,"value":878},"Airport","Samui (USM) direct from Bangkok and Singapore, or Surat Thani plus a ferry for a fraction of the price.",{"label":880,"value":881},"Screening","A medical questionnaire is required before we confirm a fasting programme, and some are declined.",{"label":883,"value":884},"Medication","Bring everything, keep taking it, declare it. Several drugs need dose adjustment during a fast and that is your own doctor’s decision.",{"label":886,"value":887},"After","Do not fly home the day a fast ends. Build in two days of re-feeding and do not attempt to repeat it at home.",[889,892,895,898],{"value":890,"label":891},"2013","Practitioner licensing act",{"value":893,"label":894},"2019","Nuad Thai, UNESCO",{"value":896,"label":897},"445 mm","November rainfall",{"value":899,"label":900},"Feb–Aug","The windows",[902,905],{"q":903,"a":904},"Is extended fasting safe?","Under supervision, for a screened healthy adult, for a defined period — yes, and that is exactly why you do it here rather than at home. Refeeding syndrome is a real risk afterwards, which is what the last days and the final bloods are for.",{"q":906,"a":907},"Do you sell colonics?","No. The properties we list offer them; we do not include them in anything we sell and we will tell you the evidence is poor and the risks are real. If you want them, that is a conversation with the physician on site, not with us.","White sand and clear shallow water on a Thai island",[910,911],{"src":435,"alt":436},{"src":432,"alt":433},{"lat":913,"lng":914},9.51,100.01,{"airport":480,"code":61,"city":916,"routings":917,"transfer":934,"flightNote":935},"Koh Samui — a privately owned airport on the island itself",[918,922,926,930],{"from":919,"how":920,"time":921},"Bangkok","Direct, roughly hourly, on the airline that owns the airport.","1 hour 10",{"from":923,"how":924,"time":925},"Singapore, Hong Kong & Kuala Lumpur","Direct.","2–3 hours",{"from":927,"how":928,"time":929},"London & western Europe","One stop to Bangkok, then the domestic hop. Same-day connections work if the long-haul lands before mid-afternoon.","15–17 hours door to door",{"from":931,"how":932,"time":933},"India & the Gulf","Via Bangkok, or via Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.","8–11 hours","20 to 40 minutes across the island. Included.","Samui is a small private airport and its fares behave accordingly — they do not fall, and the last seats are expensive. The alternative is a flight to Surat Thani and a ferry, which saves a meaningful amount and costs four hours. We will price both and tell you which we would take, which depends entirely on what time your long-haul lands.",[937,938,939,940,941,940,940,940,940,939,938,937],29,30,31,32,33,"Samui runs on a different calendar from the rest of Thailand: its wet season is October to December, when the Gulf coast takes the northeast monsoon. The mainland’s rainy months are dry here.",[944,950,956,960,966],{"name":945,"kind":946,"duration":947,"note":948,"when":949},"Ang Thong marine park","nature","Full day","Forty-two limestone islands, an emerald inland lake, and kayaking between them. The big-boat day is a scrum; ask for the small-boat departure.","before",{"name":951,"kind":952,"duration":953,"note":954,"when":955},"A muay thai evening","active","3 hours","Chaweng stadium on a fight night. Loud, ritualised and unlike the gym version — the wai kru before each bout is the part to arrive for.","rest-day",{"name":957,"kind":946,"duration":958,"note":959,"when":955},"The Na Muang waterfalls","Half day","The second fall is a twenty-minute climb and empties the crowd out of it. Best right after the rains rather than in April.",{"name":961,"kind":962,"duration":963,"note":964,"when":965},"Fisherman’s Village at Bophut","food","An evening","The old Chinese shophouse street, and a Friday night market that is still mostly for people who live here.","any",{"name":967,"kind":952,"duration":968,"note":969,"when":970},"A dawn on Koh Tao","Overnight","Ninety minutes north by catamaran, and the best accessible diving in the Gulf. Not compatible with a fasting or detox week — the exertion and the dehydration both work against it.","after",[972,977,981],{"name":973,"nights":974,"note":975,"side":976},"Bangkok, on the way through","2 nights","Almost every routing connects there. The Grand Palace at opening, Wat Pho, and dinner on a Chao Phraya klong.","either",{"name":978,"nights":979,"note":980,"side":970},"Chiang Mai & the north","4 nights","Lanna temples, the Sunday walking street, and an ethical elephant sanctuary — the Thailand that is not a beach.",{"name":982,"nights":979,"note":983,"side":970},"Krabi & the Andaman","The opposite coast, on the opposite monsoon calendar. When Samui is wet, Railay is perfect.",{"amount":60,"currency":51},null,{"slug":12,"name":367,"tagline":368,"origin":987,"regulated":369,"regulationNote":988,"indications":989,"cautions":995,"whatHappens":1000,"minimumNights":679,"recommendedNights":544,"image":806,"imageAlt":1001,"originPlace":8,"body":1002,"hardFacts":1006,"evidence":1013,"treatments":1035,"glossary":1060,"confusedWith":1088,"figures":1091,"faqs":1104,"destinationCount":370,"resortCount":641,"programmeCount":14},"The Indian subcontinent; the modern schools trace to named twentieth-century teachers.","Not regulated anywhere. Anybody may call themselves a yoga teacher, and a two-hundred-hour certificate can be bought in a fortnight. We list schools by lineage — Krishnamacharya, Sivananda, Bihar, Iyengar, Ashtanga — and name the teacher and their years on every page, because that is the only signal that carries any weight.",[990,991,992,993,994],"Persistent low-grade stress and a nervous system stuck in the on position","Back and neck pain of postural origin","Building a practice that survives contact with an ordinary week","Breath and sleep, through pranayama rather than asana","Learning to teach, properly, over four weeks rather than two",[996,997,998,999],"Uncontrolled high blood pressure and glaucoma rule out inversions","Recent surgery, disc herniation or joint replacement — bring imaging and tell the teacher","Pregnancy needs a teacher trained specifically for it, not a modified general class","Hot rooms and vigorous flow are poor choices during illness or exhaustion","Twice-daily practice in a small group — a longer, slower morning session before food and something quieter at dusk — with pranayama, meditation and, on the immersions worth attending, philosophy taught rather than sprinkled. Expect to be corrected in your first week and to feel worse before you move better.","A single held posture in silhouette at sunset",[1003,1004,1005],"Yoga as it travels is a practice rather than a profession: there is no country on earth where \"yoga teacher\" is a licensed title, and that fact should shape how you choose. Yoga Alliance, whose RYS-200 and RYT-500 designations appear on most school websites, is a voluntary registry — it confirms that a school filed a curriculum document, not that anyone inspected the teaching or that it is safe.","What that means practically is that the school matters far more than the certificate. The lineages with real institutional history — Sivananda, Satyananda, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Krishnamacharya’s line at Chennai — have syllabi, senior teachers and a body of correction that a four-week training in a rented hall does not. Rishikesh has several hundred schools; this site lists three.","The other thing worth knowing is that the physical practice is the smallest part of the classical system and the largest part of the market. A serious residential stay will spend as much time on breathing, on the philosophy, and on what you do at six in the morning for the rest of your life, as it does on postures.",[1007,1008,1009,1010,1011,1012],"Swami Sivananda founded the Divine Life Society at Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh, in 1936.","The UN General Assembly proclaimed 21 June the International Day of Yoga by resolution 69\u002F131 on 11 December 2014, with a record 175 co-sponsoring states.","Maharishi Mahesh Yogi established Chaurasi Kutia at Rishikesh in 1963; the Beatles stayed in February 1968.","\"Yoga teacher\" is not a regulated or licensed profession in any jurisdiction. Yoga Alliance is a voluntary registry, not an accreditor.","Alcohol and non-vegetarian food are prohibited within Rishikesh municipal limits.","Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras define asana in one line — *sthira sukham asanam*, steady and at ease — and devote the rest of the text to everything else.",[1014,1018,1021,1025,1028,1032],{"claim":1015,"status":1016,"note":1017},"Yoga reduces chronic low-back pain and improves function","good","One of the better-supported claims in this whole atlas. Multiple randomised trials and systematic reviews find yoga about as effective as other active exercise therapies, and several national guidelines list it as an option for persistent low-back pain.",{"claim":1019,"status":1016,"note":1020},"Slow breathing lowers physiological arousal","Extending the exhale relative to the inhale raises vagal tone and lowers heart rate within minutes, in almost anyone, for free. The mechanism is uncontroversial; what a retreat adds is doing it thirty times instead of twice.",{"claim":1022,"status":1023,"note":1024},"Yoga helps anxiety and depressive symptoms","mixed","Reviews are generally positive with real caveats — small samples, weak blinding, active-control problems. It is a reasonable adjunct and it is not a treatment for a diagnosed disorder.",{"claim":1026,"status":1023,"note":1027},"Yoga improves sleep quality","Consistent modest benefit across several reviews, particularly in older adults and in menopause. Yoga nidra specifically is the single most useful thing most anxious people take home.",{"claim":1029,"status":1030,"note":1031},"Yoga is inherently safe and injury-free","none","It is not. Shoulder, wrist, knee, neck and lower-back injuries are all well documented, and headstand and shoulderstand carry specific risks. Injury rates rise with unqualified teaching, which brings you back to the school.",{"claim":1033,"status":1030,"note":1034},"Particular postures detoxify organs or \"wring out\" the liver","A common teaching-room metaphor with no physiological basis. Twisting feels good and does not clean anything.",[1036,1040,1044,1048,1052,1056],{"name":1037,"duration":1038,"body":1039},"Asana","60–120 minutes","The physical practice. In a serious school it is taught with correction, and a good teacher will spend the fortnight removing postures from your practice rather than adding them.",{"name":1041,"duration":1042,"body":1043},"Pranayama","30–45 minutes","Breath regulation — ratio breathing, alternate nostril, and in some schools retention. The part with the best evidence and the least glamour. Retention practices are not appropriate with a panic disorder, uncontrolled hypertension or in pregnancy.",{"name":1045,"duration":1046,"body":1047},"Yoga nidra","30–40 minutes","Guided rotation of attention through the body, lying down, awake. The most useful thing most guests take home and the easiest to keep doing.",{"name":1049,"duration":1050,"body":1051},"Meditation","20–60 minutes","Usually concentration on breath or mantra rather than anything mystical. Expect it to be uncomfortable for the first week; that is the practice, not a sign of failure.",{"name":1053,"duration":1054,"body":1055},"Kriya","20–30 minutes","Cleansing practices — neti for the nasal passages, kapalabhati breathing. Some, notably the swallowed-cloth and saltwater-flush practices, we would not take without a teacher who knows you.",{"name":1057,"duration":1058,"body":1059},"Philosophy and chanting","45–60 minutes","Sutra study, Vedanta talks, Sanskrit chanting. Optional at most houses and the part returning guests say they came back for.",[1061,1063,1065,1067,1070,1073,1076,1079,1082,1085],{"term":1037,"meaning":1062},"Posture. One of eight limbs, and the one the West took.",{"term":1041,"meaning":1064},"Regulation of the breath.",{"term":1045,"meaning":1066},"\"Yogic sleep\" — a guided lying-down practice, awake throughout.",{"term":1068,"meaning":1069},"Vinyasa","Movement linked to breath; a flowing style rather than held postures.",{"term":1071,"meaning":1072},"Hatha","Broadly, the physical branch — used loosely to mean a slower, held practice.",{"term":1074,"meaning":1075},"Ashtanga","A fixed vigorous sequence in set series. Demanding, and the injury profile is real.",{"term":1077,"meaning":1078},"Iyengar","Precision alignment with props and long holds. The best entry point if you have an injury.",{"term":1080,"meaning":1081},"RYS \u002F RYT","Yoga Alliance registry designations. A filing, not an inspection.",{"term":1083,"meaning":1084},"Shala","The hall you practise in.",{"term":1086,"meaning":1087},"Sthira sukham asanam","Yoga Sutra II.46 — \"steady and at ease\" — the whole definition of a posture.",{"name":1089,"difference":1090},"A yoga holiday","A yoga holiday is a good hotel with two classes a day and a teacher flown in. A yoga stay is a school: the same teachers all year, a syllabus, one-to-one correction, and a timetable that starts before six. Both are worth doing and they cost about the same, so it is worth knowing which you have booked.",[1092,1095,1098,1101],{"value":1093,"label":1094},"0","Countries licensing yoga teachers",{"value":1096,"label":1097},"1936","Divine Life Society founded",{"value":1099,"label":1100},"8","Limbs; asana is one",{"value":1102,"label":1103},"2 yrs","Practice before a 200-hour training",[1105,1108,1111,1114],{"q":1106,"a":1107},"Do I need to be flexible or experienced?","For a retreat, no. For a teacher training, yes — two years of regular practice, and the schools worth attending ask. Arriving at a 200-hour training as a beginner is the commonest way to get injured and the commonest reason people do not finish.",{"q":1109,"a":1110},"How do I tell a good school from a bad one?","Ask who teaches — by lineage and years, not by name — and whether the same people teach all year or rotate. Ask the maximum class size. Ask what happens if you cannot do a posture. A school that answers all three concretely is a different proposition from one that sends a brochure.",{"q":1112,"a":1113},"Is a 200-hour training worth it if I never intend to teach?","Often, yes, and many people do exactly that. It is the only format that gives you a month of daily correction. Just be honest with yourself that it is a month of hard physical work and philosophy exams, not a holiday.",{"q":1115,"a":1116},"What about the more intense breathing practices?","Strong pranayama and breath retention are not appropriate with a panic disorder, uncontrolled hypertension, epilepsy, glaucoma or in pregnancy, and a good teacher will ask before they teach it. 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