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?