What is one thing that every yoga teacher trainee must do?
Expect the Unexpected!
Share your experience with your loved ones – this will help shape and strengthen your support network. The more aware they are, the easier it will be for them to listen and be there for you.
What is one thing that every yoga teacher trainee must avoid?
Forgetting that boundaries and finish lines do not exist when one is learning. Wholehearted dedication to self study and personal practice will harvest the best reward.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.–Ben Sweetland
Is being a yoga teacher just trendy or is it here to stay?
For some, it is a trend and one cannot judge the path that those are travelling. With luck those individuals will meet a teacher who will share the traditions and origins of yoga that have withstood time. As the stability and history of yoga is understood it is then obvious what amazing gifts a teacher can give to the world around them and within.
Can a yoga teacher still be successful if they are in a crowded niche?
If the teacher remains true to themselves, then yes, they will be successful. Every individual has unique gifts to offer and likewise there are special people waiting to receive them.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.--Albert Einstein
What has the yoga teacher training done for you?
The training has opened my heart and inner courage to pursue my dreams for a full and healthy life. It has allowed me to become more comfortable in my own skin.
Laura Young, Burlington, Ontario LOGANL@dal.ca
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree’s way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.–May Sarton
Laura Young graduated in 2008 through Body Therapies Yoga Training, Hamilton, Ontario. www.yogatogo.com
What is one thing that every yoga teacher trainee must do?
Prepare for the work. There are monthly self-study assignments as well as other required components to complete in order to receive the certification. Time management and preparation are highly important to success in this program. Ensure you have to time to study, ponder and practice.
What is one thing that every yoga teacher trainee must avoid?
Isolating yourself. Share you thoughts, concerns and ideas with the group. You are embarking on an exciting and challenging journey. Those with you on this journey are there to support you. They are experiencing many of the same things you are. Use this wonderful resource.
Is being a yoga teacher just trendy or is it here to stay?
Although I have seen Yoga become much trendier in the past few years, I fully believe that being a teacher is here to stay for those who choose it in order to understand, enjoy and share it.
Can a yoga teacher still be successful if they are in a crowded niche?
Yes. If a teacher can find something to offer that is unique or much needed in their niche, that will definitely be helpful. Be patient and willing to look for opportunities. There are many teachers, but there are also many students and potential students.
What has the yoga teacher training done for you?
It has changed my life in many ways. I am much more able to “go with the flow” and have found my emotions are much more balanced. I have found increased patience and compassion in my life. The Yoga teacher training taught me so much about my beliefs and the limits I placed upon myself. It was an incredible experience for which I am very grateful.
Stephanie Wile, Waterford, Ontario
stephanie.wile@hotmail.com
Stephanie graduated through Body Therapies Yoga Training in Dundas/Hamilton, Ontario. www.yogatogo.com
January 21, 2009 Comments Off
1. Many people that have a health career and enjoy the benefits of yoga, secretly wish they could pass some of these benefits on professionally. No surprise. This desire to share comes naturally to these heath care professionals.
2. Imagine pulling one of the many yoga techniques out of your yoga teacher toolkit, and helping a fearful client sitting in the chair waiting for a procedure or the tense mother lying on the massage table.
3. Think that to become a yoga teacher means you have to stand on your head? I totally agree with the Kripalu thinking that Yoga is less about standing on your own head and more about standing on your own two feet.
4. If you can breathe, you can do yoga. There are many tales about individuals literally nurturing their body back step by step from immobility to slight movement to movement with yoga breathing. Such a gift.
5. Funny how while studying to be a yoga teacher as an add on to your health career, you yourself automatically embark on a healing journey. You discover how to help your unique body mind function better; you experience more ways to natural health through holistic yoga.
6. Yoga fitness is for the physical body. Holistic yoga is for the body mind and spirit. All three are with us, and body mind and spirit need equal attention if we are to be happy and healthy.
7. Somehow being able to touch the toes has been associated with yoga. It is one of those myths right up there with yoga being a religion. What we actually want to touch in yoga is our true self.
If you would like to know more about our holistic yoga and how to enhance your health career with the gifts of yoga, I invite you to check our yoga teacher training program on our website and contact us at heather@yogatogo.com.
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