There is a specific challenge that most Bali-based expats and digital nomads encounter within their first few months: the initial excitement of Bali's yoga scene — the variety, the studios, the beautiful settings — gives way to the harder question of consistency. What...
Bali resort yoga looks compelling in a brochure. A thatched pavilion overlooking rice terraces, a gentle Vinyasa at sunrise, a smoothie bowl afterwards. It is a beautiful experience — and for some practitioners it is exactly what they want. But for practitioners who...
Most Bali yoga practitioners settle into a morning practice almost by default — the island's culture tends toward early starts, and the soft light and quiet of a Bali morning makes the 7am class feel natural. But the question of optimal timing for hot yoga is worth...
Bali resort yoga looks compelling in a brochure. A thatched pavilion overlooking rice terraces, a gentle Vinyasa at sunrise, a smoothie bowl afterwards. It is a beautiful experience — and for some practitioners it is exactly what they want. But for practitioners who...
Most yoga instructors in Bali learned to teach from a teacher training programme. Mr. Ian Terry learned to teach by standing in the room with Bikram Choudhury himself — five times, across seven years, in cities on three continents. This is the story of what 20 years...
Bali has hundreds of yoga retreats. They range from 3-day weekend packages at boutique guesthouses to 21-day immersions at purpose-built retreat centres. The marketing language is almost identical across all of them: transformative, life-changing, authentic,...
Kuta is Bali's busiest tourist hub — close to the airport, surrounded by beaches, filled with hotels at every price point. It is also one of the areas where Bali's yoga scene is thinnest. Most of the island's best yoga studios are concentrated 10–20 minutes north in...
Bali is one of the few places in the world where you can practice both Bikram yoga and Ashtanga yoga at genuinely high standards — Bikram at YogaFX in Seminyak and Canggu, Ashtanga at studios like Samadi and The Practice in Canggu and The Yoga Barn in Ubud. The...
The most common question from people considering yoga teacher training in Bali is some version of this: I want to do it, but I'm not sure I'm ready. I don't have years of practice. I'm not very flexible. I've only been doing yoga for a few months. Is teacher training...