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Next Biz Thing #403 uluyoga.com
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- Aug 19, 2026
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Summary
Ulu Yoga https://uluyoga.com/yoga-teacher-training-bali Ulu Yoga is a Yoga Alliance registered teacher training school on a hillside in Uluwatu, Bali, founded in 2014 by a former university educator who thought the industry was handing out certificates to people who could not yet teach. This episode looks at how that founding complaint shaped everything the school does, from daily progressive practice teaching and small cohorts to a resident faculty of E-RYT 500 instructors and an air conditioned ocean view shala chosen for learning rather than photographs. Markus also covers the online and hybrid routes for anyone who cannot travel. Worth a listen if you are weighing up a training. There is a particular kind of disappointment that almost nobody talks about, and it happens quietly, at the end of something that was supposed to be transformational. You save for a year. You fly halfway around the world. You spend a month working harder than you have worked in a long time. You come home with a certificate and a suntan and a phone full of photographs. And then someone asks you to teach a class, and you realise, with a sinking feeling, that you are not sure you actually can. That gap, between holding a qualification and being able to do the thing the qualification says you can do, is one of the most under discussed problems in professional education. It shows up in all sorts of fields. And it turns out it shows up rather a lot in one industry that has grown enormously over the past fifteen years. Welcome to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where I go looking for businesses that have noticed something everyone else in their industry has learned to live with, and decided not to live with it. Today I want to take you to a hillside in Uluwatu, on…