This is the 6th in a series of interviews with graduates from the Integrative Yoga Therapy teacher training program offered through Body Therapies Yoga Training.

1. What is one thing that every yoga teacher trainee must do?

Know that it is your journey and it can only be travelled by you.  You must be true to yourself and that means honouring both strengths and limitations.  Like all travels you will forget some of the experiences so keep a journal and remember that the destination is the ability to know your true self.

2. What is one thing that every yoga teacher trainee must avoid?

Do not compare yourself to the person beside you.  Yoga can never be a group sport nor a competition.  Yoga can only be about your own personal practice. Anything else and it is not yoga.

3. Is being a yoga teacher just trendy or is it here to stay?

Yoga has been practised for over 3000 years and it will continue to be practised but I believe the practise of yoga in North America will go through changes until it will find it’s own balance. Yoga is about finding a balance, individually and universally.

4.  Can a yoga teacher still be successful if they are in a crowded niche?

Absolutely.  It may seem crowded because of the attention it is gaining in every gym and health centre but that is only one very small representation of yoga.  Yoga is about adapting a practise to individual needs.  Yoga can be practised by everyone no matter their limitations.  The very young, the very old, the sick and the healthy, yoga can benefit all.

5. What has the yoga teacher training done for you?
Yoga teacher training has changed the way that I think about myself, about other people and about the journey that I am on.  It has taught me how I must continue to remove the obstacles that I have so carefully constructed around me, obstacles that have prevented me from living in the moment.

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