This year marks eight years since I embarked on teacher training and subsequently began to teach. Where did the time go?! The woman who never imagined she would ever teach yoga is somehow still here doing just that. I’ve written here before about how my personal yoga practice has continued to evolve, and my teaching has most definitely chang ed in that time too. So, I wanted to r eflect a l ittle on my teaching path to date and just a few things I have learned so far:
■ Experience cannot be bought, and while you’ll never stop learning you can never know everything. Yes, as a brand new teacher you can be gr eat and have lots to offer, yet ex perience only truly comes over time. It’s not possible to shortcut the process by doing lots of trainings back-to-back and collecting more and more certificates, particularly if you are not allowing yourself time to integrate what you’ve learned on each training before moving onto the next one. As sure as night follows day, I know that my teaching will keep evolving with time, and that’s a good thing.