While most people learn yoga to lead a healthy lifestyle, a good number also learns it for a greater cause, to become yoga teachers. After practicing yoga for a while, people start to observe some obvious changes in themselves, and discover an internal discipline and connection with the core of their beings. And it’s a natural impulse in human beings to share their beautiful experiences with others.
Today, yoga is being taught throughout the world, yet India being the birthplace of this great practice, attracts more people than any other place. Every year thousands of people come specially to take yoga training in India. Home to some of the best yoga instructors in the world, yoga retreats in India are known to train practitioners not just to become yoga instructors but true yoga teachers as well.
Yoga teacher training involves comparatively more demanding routine than daily yoga practice. It is an intense personal and professional journey, in which learners are required to remain in the yoga retreats for about a month with a disciplined routine and on a balanced, organic diet.
If you too are looking forward to taking yoga teacher training then these tips will be really useful.
Know Yoga Beyond the Asanas: Most people, including some regular practitioners, have a perception of yoga to be a list of asanas. However, yoga is not limited to body postures alone; it also teaches about universal morality, personal observance, control on breathing and life force energy, control of the senses, cultivating inner perpetual awareness, meditation and union with divine. Including body postures, these are called Ashta-anga (eight limbs) of yoga. For a practitioner, who is on the path of becoming a yoga teacher, knowing these sutras is very important.
Begin the Path of Self-Inquiry: As mentioned above, goal of yoga is not to produce a better physical body but a better being. You take the first step towards it when you become aware of yourself. The process of self-inquiry will make you face your doubts and fears that you previously avoided. Realizing them is important to overcome them and in building a stronger character. Your character reflects in your teaching, and having doubts and fear then, will not convey the true message of yoga teachings.
Seek and Give Support: Become selfless, become ‘We’ from ‘I’. Eventually you realize that, we learn more from our fellow practitioners than from the instructors. It’s not the certificate that really makes you a yoga teacher; you become a yoga teacher when you start helping your companions with their rough spots and start considering them as allies you can learn from.
Yoga teacher training is a pleasant experience in which you build a kinship with many like-minded people. Your entire being transforms and you become aware of the ultimate goal of yoga, the union of mind and body.
Today, yoga is being taught throughout the world, yet India being the birthplace of this great practice, attracts more people than any other place. Every year thousands of people come specially to take yoga training in India. Home to some of the best yoga instructors in the world, yoga retreats in India are known to train practitioners not just to become yoga instructors but true yoga teachers as well.
Yoga teacher training involves comparatively more demanding routine than daily yoga practice. It is an intense personal and professional journey, in which learners are required to remain in the yoga retreats for about a month with a disciplined routine and on a balanced, organic diet.
If you too are looking forward to taking yoga teacher training then these tips will be really useful.
Know Yoga Beyond the Asanas: Most people, including some regular practitioners, have a perception of yoga to be a list of asanas. However, yoga is not limited to body postures alone; it also teaches about universal morality, personal observance, control on breathing and life force energy, control of the senses, cultivating inner perpetual awareness, meditation and union with divine. Including body postures, these are called Ashta-anga (eight limbs) of yoga. For a practitioner, who is on the path of becoming a yoga teacher, knowing these sutras is very important.
Begin the Path of Self-Inquiry: As mentioned above, goal of yoga is not to produce a better physical body but a better being. You take the first step towards it when you become aware of yourself. The process of self-inquiry will make you face your doubts and fears that you previously avoided. Realizing them is important to overcome them and in building a stronger character. Your character reflects in your teaching, and having doubts and fear then, will not convey the true message of yoga teachings.
Seek and Give Support: Become selfless, become ‘We’ from ‘I’. Eventually you realize that, we learn more from our fellow practitioners than from the instructors. It’s not the certificate that really makes you a yoga teacher; you become a yoga teacher when you start helping your companions with their rough spots and start considering them as allies you can learn from.
Yoga teacher training is a pleasant experience in which you build a kinship with many like-minded people. Your entire being transforms and you become aware of the ultimate goal of yoga, the union of mind and body.
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