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.”