Anne-Marie set up her own school of teacher training in 2001 as one of her ways to give back to the community what yoga is bringing her.   You can feel when she speaks to you how intent she is on spreading the joy of yoga around her and she is working tirelessly to achieve it.   She only expects one thing from her students and that is commitment.  For her, yoga is not something that you embark on lightly, you have to immerse yourself into it and it will mean lots of readjustments; she expects commitment on her students’ part in the same way as she had been expected to commit herself during her training.  As she was made to surrender and let go of the entire luggage she was carrying with her and was made to prostrate to Swami Sivananda and other deities during her training, she requires her own students to abandon their habits and to open up.  She awakens them to the brutal reality of our own world by teaching them about mindfulness, about what it means for them to be mindful.   She reads them the chapter on Ahimsa (violence) from Jivamukti, because it is brutal, and real.  For her, a lot of the scriptures are not brutal enough to awaken us to the cruel reality of our world.   How can we be kind and compassionate when we nurture such destructive habits?  She insists almost from the start on a purely yogic vegetarian diet and amazingly her students do.  They are told that the road from then on will be bumpy but that they will always be there for each other in difficult times and yoga is the bond between them.   They will go through things that they don’t understand, but all will fall into place in good time.  As she says to them, you do the work, you do the studying, and this is bigger than you.   This is mind-blowing stuff.