DURING THE COURSE
I’d been practicing yoga for six years before embarking on a YTT. It wasn’t because I wanted to teach, I simply wanted to deepen my practice and learn more about the big shifts I felt happening. Yoga gave me the sense of coming home, but to a home I’d never known. The kind no one can take from you. I had no intention of teaching, because I had a huge fear of public speaking, of making myself vulnerable in that way. But I felt stuck and knew things needed to change, I just didn’t have a map, or the right tools. Teacher training offered three powerful lessons to take away.
1. The relationship you’re having with yourself is the foundation of all the relationships in your life. Svadhyaya means self-study, and it’s one of the ethical foundations of the yoga practice. If you don’t understand why you do the things you do, if you don’t know what lights you up, scares or inspires you, then you are lost. But that doesn’t mean you’re stuck. Yoga gives you a set of tools so you can go about the business of knowing yourself in an honest and compassionate way. Until you get right with yourself, nothing else in your life will flourish the way it could.
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