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