| You may be surprised to hear this, but no one goes | | | | to learn yoga. |
| into yoga teacher training. I know this for a fact. I | | | | If you have been drawn to yoga teaching as a |
| have been a yoga instructor for eight years, you | | | | possible career path, I would like to ask you to |
| see, and yoga practitioner for close to 30. I have | | | | reconsider this idea. Instead, find another way to |
| studied many styles of yoga including ashtanga, | | | | make money. Ideally, you should find one that will |
| Iyengar, and kundalini yoga. I also studied from many | | | | involve as little time commitment as possible while |
| teachers, and took classes in yoga styles all around | | | | giving you enough money to live on comfortably. |
| the world. I am an expert in yoga, but I never set | | | | Then, you should study under a teacher who you |
| out to be. | | | | know and respect. |
| Although people do occasionally make the mistake of | | | | If your teacher does offer a course in yoga training, |
| going into yoga teacher training figuring that it will be | | | | so much the better. If the teacher does not, this |
| an easy path to an easy career, the fact is that the | | | | does not mean that you should go find another |
| ability to teach yoga only comes about as the result | | | | teacher. Study with the teacher until you can learn no |
| of intense study. I have known many great yoga | | | | more from them, and then find someone else to |
| teachers, and not a single one set out to be one. | | | | teach you yoga. Yoga teacher training, after all, |
| What they did do is what all great teachers do, no | | | | should only be a step in your quest to master the |
| matter what the field. They fell in love with the | | | | study of yoga as fully as possible. |
| subject matter that they were studying, and | | | | You should never leave a good teacher just because |
| proceeded as far as it would take them. | | | | they cannot give you the certification that you |
| Although this does often involve taking a program | | | | desire. It is easy to get yoga teacher training. There |
| and yoga teacher training, this is only done as a way | | | | are many courses that will give you a piece of paper. |
| to advance the study of yoga. You do not learn | | | | But what people want to know is if you have studied |
| yoga as a way to complete a class in yoga teacher | | | | with good teachers, and if you understand the yoga |
| training. You complete yoga teacher training as way | | | | yourself. |