Brian Cooper
Co-founder of Yoga Alliance Professionals
After more than 30 years teaching yoga it seems the right time to share my experience with my fellow teachers. You could say I am a yoga fanatic, having practiced yoga virtually daily for the last 50 years. For many years I practiced 5 hours a day. Nowadays my daily practice is one and a half hours and I am still learning. Over my teaching years I have done pretty much all there is to do: teaching regular classes, running very successful yoga studios, and creating the highly respected Union Yoga Training. In 2000 I opened one of the first eco yoga retreat centres, in the remote Scottish highlands, where people came from all over the world. In 2006, I co-founded Yoga Alliance UK - now known as Yoga Alliance Professionals - with the aim of making the teaching of yoga a respected profession.