The Yoga program at Tiger Muay Thai

yoga-program-01Our training is intense everyday at Tiger Muay Thai and MMA training camp and takes a toll on our bodies, that is why each Monday-Friday we offer our guests an hour of relaxing and beneficial Yoga and meditation from 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

Yoga is especially beneficial for flexibility of joints, tendons, and muscles and helps prevent injury during training. It doesn’t matter if you are a novice or experienced in Yoga,

Simon our Yoga instructor, with a certification in teaching from India, will lead a class that will help you start your day feeling fresh and limber. Starting with some relaxing music in background, Simon will take you through a variety of stretching exercises and positions that will help increase your flexibility, posture, and balance.

Each Yoga class ends with a 10-15 minute session of meditation to relax and focus on your goals for that day’s training.

The Yoga Instructor

yoga-program-simonSimon has been studying yoga, meditation and martial arts since he was 7 years old. He has spent many years training in both India and Thailand for well over a decade, and has been teaching at various gyms since 2001. He is a certified yoga teacher by the Siddhartha Yoga Centre based in Dharamshala, India. He is also a level 2 Muay Thai Instructor, certified by the World Muay Thai Council.

He teaches a style of yoga based on a combination of Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga, which he has modified to suit the martial artist. The aim of his yoga classes are to develop flexibility, strength, balance, good health, focus, and mind development.

Pranayama which is the cultivation of life force (prana) through various breathing excercises, is also taught.

Plus he uses several meditation and visualization techniques, which helps the practitioner to learn to what Thais would call “jai jen” (cool heart) or a mentally relaxed state of awareness. The visualization techniques are designed to speed up your healing regeneration, as well as to improve your overall skills in both yoga and martial arts.

Classes begin with a sitting meditation, then a series of yogic asanas (postures) are taught, the last part of the class works with pranayama and finally some relaxation, vizsualization exercises.

Simon also teaches stick fighting and Reiki.

Yoga has been practiced by martial artist for at least 2000 years.  When the legendary Yogi and Buddhist sage Bodhidharma AKA Tamo, was wandering China after leaving his life as an Indian prince, to become a yogi.  Here he found the Shaolin temple.  He taught them the yogic arts what came to be the linage of the Shaolin, who used this knowledge to explore their potential, and develop the shaolin arts.

Warrior Yoga Instructors course


Aim:To Train advanced martial artists and yoga practitioners a unique system of yoga, designed for martial artists, in order to teach.

Course length: 4 weeks, 5 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Cost of Course 40,000 Bht

Certification accredited to Tiger Muay Thai & MMA

Maximum students allowed on course, 5.

What warrior yoga brings to the practitioner: Inner calm, excellent balance both physical and mental.  Fantastic flexibility and strength both internal and external.  Increases healing rate.  Through breath control endurance is heightened a great amount.  A work out that can be done anywhere, needing no props or gimmicks. Lastly a philosophy of life that leads to greater awareness, and  a way to explore ones spirituality in one own authentic manner.

What you will learn on the Warrior Yoga course:

Assanas – yogic postures

Pranayama – breath control

Martial arts techniques taught in a yogic way

Meditation & visualization techniques

Reiki 1 & 2 A Japanese healing art based on the teachings of Dr Usui.  Designed to speed up healing rate, as well as learning to heal others.

Massage and joint  manipulation techniques, based on Thai massage, simple and effective technique that can help others.

How to teach warrior yoga, create lesson plans, for both classes and private clients.
Time table & Schedule

Day1   Morning yoga, course intro, meditation, group discussion, begin Reiki Lvl 1.

Day2   Morning yoga, philosophy of Warrior Yoga, meditation, chakras, group discussion, Reiki 1 continued, afternoon yoga.

Day 3   Morning yoga meditation, the aura, Reiki 1 complete, afternoon yoga.

Day 4    Morning yoga, meditation, the micro cosmic orbit, massage techniques and partner stretches, afternoon yoga.

Day 5  Morning yoga, meditation, the body of light, massage and partner stretches, afternoon yoga.

Day 6  Morning yoga, meditation, elemental balancing & empowering.  Combining Reiki and massage, afternoon yoga.

Day 7  Morning yoga, meditation Reiki lvl 2, Afternoon yoga.

Day 8 Morning yoga,  meditation, macro cosmic orbit, reiki 2 complete, yogic shadow boxing.  Afternoon yoga.

Day 9   Morning yoga, meditation, visualization for martial arts improvement.  Mantras & affirmations.  Yogic shadow boxing and afternoon yoga.

Day 10   Morning yoga, meditation, pranayama, alternate  breathing.  Student take turns in teaching, 10 min sessions.  Yogic shadow boxing, afternoon yoga.

Day 11 Morning yoga, meditation 1 hour, students give visualization/yoga drills, 10min per person.  Feedback, yogic shadow boxing & afternoon yoga.

Day 12 Morning yoga, meditation 1 hour, pranayama fire breathing.  Students give visualization/yoga drills.  Feedback, yogic shadowboxing & afternoon yoga.

Day 13  Morning yoga, meditation 1 hour, pranayama cool breathing.  Students give visualization/yoga drill.  Feedback, yogic shadowboxing & afternoon yoga.

Day 14  Morning yoga, meditation 1 hour, students take turns to teach classes, feedback, yogic shadow boxing, afternoon yoga.

Day 15 to 22 the same as day 14.

Days 22 & 23 Will have morning yoga, then each student will run an hour class, feedback will be given.

Day 24 Morning yoga, 1 hour meditation, then certification.

Mixed photos from the morning Yoga Session