The 40-Minute Travis Eliot / Inner Dimension Academy Power Yoga Final Sequence

It’s really difficult to describe yoga poses, which I guess is a universal feeling amongst yoga teachers. Completing the Travis Eliot and Lauren Eckstrom Inner Dimension Academy 200-hour yoga certification was a very lonesome and somewhat frustrating process. I actually worked a lot more than 200 hours and practiced for over a year in front of a mirror at a dance studio to finish this certificate because there is nobody to correct your posture/pose alignment except yourself. And if you are an online yoga student, you have no access, zero access to a yoga or dance studio. And you have to coordinate time with a willing participant to do the yoga practice where you are explaining what to do without doing the sequence yourself. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to do a yoga practice from a video or in person without sometimes having to look at the instructor or (in Travis Eliot’s case a student) perform it when the standard pose name is not said. And I have never actually envisioned teaching a class where I expected a student to follow my voice on description alone, so it was quite the exam! I’ve done almost all of Travis’ free flowy vinyasa-style YouTube videos and wish there was a community outside of Facebook to talk to other people as I don’t use Facebook. I was disappointed to learn that the “online community” that the course offered was a Facebook community. I live in Los Angeles and signed up in 2021 when I feared everything would close down again last year and a good portion of yoga schools permanently closed down. I would have done an in-person training if I could redo it again as the lack of live videos, in-person options in West LA/Santa Monica and the lack of community feeling was something that made me regret doing the training this way. The outreach from a coordinator when I failed the initial exam (I didn’t do breathing cues) was the only kind of humanity I felt from this program. I compliment Travis Eliot sometimes on YouTube as he teaches some awesome modifications to poses, particularly he did a tree leg variation to Chatturanga push-ups which were awesome. But online yoga teacher training sucks and should not continue being a thing.