The impulse to sign up for a teacher training deserves deep honest consideration and contemplation for it embodies a waking up that is likely to set in motion a sea-change of understanding and perception that will challenge life habits and patterns of being.
When looking at different promotional material for yoga teacher training courses and images on social media about yoga, we can get drawn into different ideas of what it means to teach. We may be seduced by photos of people performing perfect postures and looking good, or accruing thousands of Instagram followers, or travelling of to exotic locations to lead yoga hol idays ar ound the world, or perhaps having the idea we’ll have a lot of time to practice and video our pr ogress. But what if those images actually obscure the true purpose and nature of the practices and teaching? What if they in fact portray the exact opposite of what the yoga practice was originally intended to be about?
To truly listen to what is the real driving force behind the wish to teach yoga takes honesty and courage, for it’s not merely a career change or another path to tread that seems preferable to where you’re at or have been. Rather, it’s an endeavour that requires humility, tenacity and responsibility which builds on the assiduous practices of the yogis and yoginis who’ve come bef ore, and who form the backbone of an ancient and profound tradition. It is not to be undertaken lightly as the role represents the highest aspirations of what it means to be a human – to live as a wise, caring and compassionate human being. It represents a certain kind of soul stirring and openness to change, growth and reconnection.
For this reason, it’s essential to spend time learning about where yoga has come from and seek to understand where it’s going. But perhaps most importantly, to spend time learning about one’s own self thr ough the difer ent pr actices and teachings that reunite the fragments of our whol eness. This may lead us to discover, in the words of the eminent 20th century anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson, “the pattern that connects” before embarking on a path that puts one in the seat of helping others find their way.
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