"This was a very well thought out curriculum and program for yoga and the teachers followed it precisely breathing in depth and life to all elements. It covered all the important elements of Advanced Yoga Practices and allowed us to put them into action with a level of guidance, expertise and dedication that is unheard of. Having often practiced yoga with yoga teachers, I can say that this course covered things that many yoga teachers will not know and all the points that are necessary to guide others in yoga. There were four main teachers and fourteen students on this teacher training and each teacher went beyond the call of duty. I am sure these teachers were there to ensure that we learned to the best of our ability and their presence and teachings ensured just that. It is simply not like any other teacher training that I heard of from all my other yoga teacher friends. The level of individual attention and devotion to yoga by these yogis will pay off. I learned much too from my colleagues, some who have practiced yoga ever since my birth! As a Franco-Japanese from New York, I appreciated too to learn and work with 3 french yogis and 2 Japanese and believe that our work and co-operation will continue beyond frontiers as will working with the other yogis from around the world. I believe my colleagues will transmit what they learned and that as a result of this course, many more will benefit. The reputation of Advanced Yoga Practices and the level of devotion and dedication by yogis practicing it will make it a most effective and well known school of yoga capable of carrying the benefit of yoga down several generations and then some. I have practiced raja yoga with some great yogis (one in his late 90s) most of whom do not have certificates nor would I ever ask them if they had one. So I am not the kind who would have done a teacher training course to obtain a certificate however valuable and desirable from the Yoga Alliance or other. I did take this training course because of 1) the background of the main teacher Tristan Dorling who is as of my experience an enlightened master and a rare one. This yogi radiates from the heart with early experiences beginning at age 3 and throughout his life. He was with us almost all of the time even when other teachers were training us in anatomy, pranyama or other. That also goes the same for the other teachers. Often we had four teachers present for us. Even on Tristan's day off, even if de-hydrated by a day on a boat he was never far. Tristan is more than anything we could have imagined and taught us by his presence what is yoga. His meditations with us carried us elevating us to new heights. Open to all and spending individual time and answering daily questions from me and all students, he surpassed the call of duty. I can not thank you enough Tristan. I also am in debt for the other three teachers on the course Devrim (teaching us pranyama, devotion and helping me integrate my other yogic practices with AYP -- in many ways Devrim felt like family), Blanche Serban (a rare enlightened teacher who also began yoga at a young age and was able to communicate not only asanas but the energetic experience in the body of the asanas and states of being that most can not express in words with a joy and radiance that is her own) and Alex (bringing anatomy to life with particular relevance for a yoga teacher with his gentleness, diplomacy, and humor making those new to anatomy feel at ease). 2) I also took this course primarily because it taught Advanced Yoga Practices (a system of yoga I have tested and found to be the most complete and efficient yoga system to date that I can BOTH practice and teach.) Having studied with some incredible yogis and been taught some complete systems of yoga (which I could learn but not teach), this is a compliment and a recognition to Yogani, the founder of this yoga and his great work publishing and making his full effective system of yoga available to all on the internet, in book form, and now in teacher trainings. AYP taught me all the steps to continue transforming myself and to teach others. Now, I can share what I know with others and also deepen my experience and go further. Even though Yogani was not physically with us, I felt this great yogi's presence and blessing on all of us. He is never far from my heart and spirit. As are all of my great teachers."