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Practical Yoga practice planning skills for teachers & students rooted in Sūtra wisdom. Viniyoga approach based CEUs, 200-hour YTT & ongoing support.

Senior Yoga teachers. Teaching online & in person, 79110 SW France Phoenix Yoga teaches friendly, smaller yoga classes in 79110 area near Chef Boutonne, Deux Sèvres (79) and the surrounding areas (16, 17 and 86) of France as well as in the Cheltenham and Bishops Cleeve areas of Gloucestershire. We offer private classes to smaller groups or 1-2-1 sessions at a time and place to suit you. We also of

fer a variety of flexible, online options for anyone who’s not based locally but would still like to work with us. Our classes are run by two highly experienced, senior Yoga teachers (Viniyoga approach) and self confessed Yoga nerds who are fascinated by what a regular Yoga practice can achieve! If you have an idea of what a Yoga teacher should be, you'll probably find we don't conform to it! We come as we are and we will always encourage you to be as you are too! Our classes are fun and relaxed. If you can join us, you'll always be made to feel very welcome. Marc Plummer EI Siret: 842 760 159 00017
Kate Plummer EI Siret: 842 761 710 00016

26/08/2026

Signed up for an online 200 hour training last month, just out of curiosity. Wanted to see what it’s actually like these days from the student side.

Honestly, the philosophy was better than I expected. Plenty of anatomy and posture work too.

I got to the end and just sat there like… wait, where’s the bit where you learn to actually teach with any of this in a room full of real people? Turns out there wasn’t one.

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04/08/2026

Someone asked me recently how long a good yoga teacher training should take.

I told them about mine. Monthly training weekends, homework in between, for close to three years. I was teaching regularly throughout most of it. Then I told them the part that surprises people: I still enrolled on another training anyway.

Most people expect a defined timeline. What actually determines when someone is ready to teach is something else entirely.

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19/07/2026

Most people arrive at their first 1-2-1 session expecting to talk about yoga postures.

The first questions I ask are about their life. When they wake up. What their mornings look like. How much time they can realistically give, not in their best week, but in an ordinary one.

The answers shape everything. The practice has to fit the life, not the other way round.

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06/07/2026

Most people come to yoga looking for peace, flexibility, or a way to unwind.

I came because my doctor told me to, stayed because something in it wouldn’t let me go, and spent years asking questions the training wasn’t designed to answer.

If you have ever felt like the wrong kind of person in a yoga room, this one is probably for you.

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27/06/2026

A forward bend can look like dozens of different things depending on the body doing it. If the goal is the shape, that looks like a hierarchy.

If the goal is energetic, it isn’t. Every version can be doing exactly the same work.

This changes what real multi-level teaching actually requires.

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22/06/2026

Most people assume you meditate in order to settle the mind.

The teachings that underpin yoga say the opposite: the mind has to be settled first, before meditation becomes possible at all.

That reversal changes what a teacher is actually doing in every class, long before anyone sits down to meditate.

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11/06/2026

Most yoga teachers know the Hatha Yoga Pradipika exists. Very few have been taught what it actually is or why it matters.

It is not a manual of extreme practices with limited modern relevance. It is a framework for teachers, and once you understand what it is actually saying, it is difficult to teach without it.

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07/06/2026

Most yoga teachers use breath in their classes. Very few teach it as the organising principle of the practice.

There is a difference, and it changes what you actually do in class, what you watch for in your students, and what the practice is capable of doing.

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31/05/2026

Most people who have done any yoga at all have heard it: yoga means union.

It doesn’t. It never did. The mistranslation is so embedded in modern yoga that questioning it feels almost impolite.

I’ve written about what yoga actually means, why the accurate translation changes everything about how you practise and teach, and why the wrong version stuck around so long.

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26/05/2026

Most yoga teachers I know have a complicated relationship with their own practice. Teaching takes over. Classes become the practice. Somewhere along the way the thing that drew you to yoga in the first place gets quietly crowded out.

I’ve written about what happens when that distinction disappears, and why it matters more than most teacher training ever acknowledges.

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Address

79110

Opening Hours

Monday	09:00 - 22:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 21:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 12:00
Thursday	09:00 - 21:00
Friday	09:00 - 12:00

Website

https://www.phoenixyogafrance.com/

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