Very knowledgeable people I had positive experience about My Vinyasa Practice. I'm impressed and recommend to others!

I have completed my ytt200 and I am halfway through ytt300. I have booked onto a couple of CPD courses to do later. I really like the way MVP teaches. The concepts are introduced, revisited and expanded upon throughout the training in the form of basic lectures, activities and journal prompts and the more in depth weekend lectures. This has continued from ytt200 to ytt300. It means that I have learnt some new and sometimes complicated concepts with ease and retained the knowledge. The teachers are very knowledgeable and clicking on their personal Yoga Alliance pages, show an impressive range of trainings, teaching and experiences and they continually refer back to the sutras and various teachers of our lineage. There is always someone available to answer my questions and they do so kindly and compassionately. Feedback on practicums is thorough and includes ways to grow as a teacher. As well as the weekend lectures I mentioned, there are also "office hours" where lead trainers teach a wide variety of related topics, including breakdowns of asanas, chanting, book clubs and so much more. There is even free yoga therapy on offer for students. There was a recent update to MVP website and I found it to be a smooth and well thought out transition with email reminders and training opportunities on how to use and migrate to the new platform for people who needed the extra support. I like the new platform and I also like the new structure of weekend lectures. I think the earlier ones were great but could be occasionally a bit hit and miss in parts, though rarely but the more recent lectures are smooth and MVP have obviously looked carefully at their previous material and grown from there. The earlier lectures remain available to students and there is so much value in these earlier lectures too. I love that I have lifetime access and I love being able to learn towards my own interests. I can also binge watch different lectures on a particular concept I'm not getting, until it is integrated. Some of the practices in the lectures are mind blowing. These ladies are true artists of yoga and have gently taken me to places on my spiritual path, which has changed me; now I know who I truly am. For balance, there are a couple of nighles. I don't think the introductory video lectures for each module represent MVP well. They are quite dry and I think the content is being read from a glitchy autocue. I also understand that particular content must be covered to satisfy Yoga Alliance and to provide a scaffolding for the weekend lectures and this does seem like the best way to do it, so it's not a criticism, rather an observation. It can also be a bit confusing to be asked to create and teach classes at the end of module sections, without having had the information from the weekend lectures. It also took me a while to realise that the weekend lectures were part of the required training, and it might be helpful to be signposted to relevant lectures from the platform. These are only very minor points though. I am delighted that I chose MVP and I am proud to say I have been taught by them.

The content itself has been great, but I cannot access the courses that I have paid for through the mvp website, the only course that shows up is the yoga therapy for anxiety course that I have not paid for.(I do have my receipt and bank statements) I had paid for the 200 hour ytt training and can access it on teachable but since they are discontinuing it on that platform I’m worried all my progress and money will be lost, I’ve tried to get ahold of the company and got the automated email reply but the website is discontinued tomorrow so I’m not sure if I will be able to get into my course.

I am currently only about 35% through my 200YTT and I have to say, I'm loving it. I was skeptical going the online school route, let alone a YTT that wasn't as expensive as what I'd been used to seeing in the YTT programs at all the studios where I live. I've always been fascinated/nerdy about ancient eastern philosophy/religion but never really studied yoga--though I've been practicing vinyasa on/off for the last ten years--and I wasn't even expecting to be diving as deep into the history and Sanskrit as I've had the pleasure to. Also really learning in inside outs of the body systems and how asana poses function for our bodies and minds when practiced correctly. Like another reviewer, the organization of the google folders at first was a little confusing, but everything was there and it just took some learning format as I went. If you're reasonably tech savvy, this shouldn't be much of a problem to navigate. Live lectures and office hours have been a great way to engage in dialogue with students ranging from brand new to having completed their 500YTTs who are just extending their education. Even though I'm still early on, I have found this place to exceed my expectations on what becoming a yoga teacher is. I feel excited to continue growing and expanding the knowledge I learn to give to my future students when that time comes, and to keep learning yoga in myself. In a nutshell, I would recommend this to anyone who is self motivated, and willing to do a lot of self reflection/inner work.

I received wonderful support throughout my training! :)

I received my 200hr YTT certification through another school. I decided to sign up for MVP's 95hr Children's Yoga Teacher Training as they were one of very few affordable children's training that was also the full 95 hours required by Yoga Alliance. I think the program has the potential to be good but is lacking in a few crucial areas. My first impression was a lack of information. When I first logged into my course and watched the introduction video, I was still left with many unanswered questions. I was provided a PDF list of assignments, but no information on how to submit these assignments (or if I even needed to) and no instruction whether my assignments such as journaling should be typed (for easy submission) or hand-written. Another area I think could be improved is the quality and content of the videos provided in the training. The videos were poor quality and the instructor was just reading a script instead of teaching. I understand having notes to keep your teaching on track, but reading a script word for word is something I can do on my own. This left me feeling like the videos were a waste of time. I was discouraged by the inability to speak with anyone. I requested to join the Facebook group, which seems fairly inactive as I was never added into the group. Inside the course, it said the instructor would be doing office Zoom meetings every other Thursday, with a list of dates starting in April. So apparently no Zoom meetings through March. When I looked at her schedule from a google doc, the dates were all crossed off until August. I then went to a page where you can set up an appointment for one on one with peer support and there was nothing available, not even a single time or date. I was also a little disappointed that I wasn't informed of the need for purchasing books until I was already enrolled in the course. You are not permitted to proceed through the course without completing previous modules first. This combined with me having to order the books and wait for them to arrive in the mail made it so I was at a standstill and unable to work on the coursework. While I think there is good information in the course and especially in the books assigned, the lack of resources and crucial information caused a lot of frustration and wasted time trying to find these resources. In the end, these are the reasons I requested a refund and have chose another program for children's yoga teacher training.

Ive been trying to reach this group for a week and have still not gotten anything other than an automated reply, just moments ago telling me to wait up to 48 hours for a reply to the inquiry finally acknowledged.

Affordable, great instructors and content. Really like that it can be done at your own pace.

Thank you so much for having me. This was an incredible journey so far. Yes with all the Covid around us it has been hard on all of us, but for me it brought me this online YTT and I can not believe how much knowledge I gained in the past 2 years about myself, physically and mentally. It taught me what yoga is about, I would have never expected it to be so enriching and fulfilling. This 200 YTT course gave me so much more than I expected. I didn't know what yoga was about, even though I went to classes. Thank you for starting me on this incredible journey. I'm definitely looking forward to do another course here, with you. Your Team, your lineage, the knowledge, everything here at My Vinyasa speaks to me.

I think this training was detailed and helped me be well educated and informed on how to be the best yoga teacher possible. I do think some tangible class structure resources of how to sequence various different types of classes would be helpful. I also think things could be slightly more streamlined. The portal is great, but the google folders can be a little confusing, not too bad, you all have it well organized, but I find myself thinking I am missing things. Overall, great training, very glad to have done it through My Vinyasa Practice.