Rishikesh, Goa or Bali: An Honest Way to Choose Where You Do Your Yoga Teacher Training
Every year a large number of people decide to do a yoga teacher training abroad, and immediately hit the same three-way choice: Rishikesh, Goa, or Bali. The comparison articles that come up are mostly written by people selling one of the three, which is not ideal. Here is a version that isn't. The three destinations are genuinely different products, and the right one depends on things about you that a brochure cannot know. They are not competing on the same axis The mistake is treating this as one decision with three options. It's really three different trade-offs. Rishikesh is the traditional-study option. It is the place the lineage actually comes from, it is the cheapest of the three by a wide margin, and it is the least comfortable. It is also a dry town on the Ganga in the Himalayan foothills, which some people find clarifying and some find austere. Bali is the lifestyle option. It is beautiful, extremely comfortable, has the strongest modern-yoga scene of the three, a...