The times I hear: “I can’t do handstand or forearm balance so I don’t think I’m ready for my teacher training yet, am I?” I often rephrase the question back to students. “Do you think being able to do poses such as handstand and forearm balance are vital to a practitioner wishing to become a teacher? Also consider, what growth do you think a practitioner obtains from asana practice if poses such as these are easily attainable?” You will often catch me in my classes saying that “an intermediate yogi is not someone who can access pretzel shapes, an intermediate yogi is the only person in a room who cannot do a particular pose and they feel indifferent.”
It’s beautiful to see all the photographs on Instagram of advanced asana in far-flung destinations with the latest, all-singing, alldancing yoga mat and the latest matching branded yoga gear, but question the reason behind these images. Is it rooted in yoga or is it nothing at all about yoga?
I can speak from a place of experience as a traveling yoga teacher. The whole time that I was traveling from place to place, teacher to teacher, training to training, I was constantly seeking and never finding.
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