Yoga Teacher Training: AFTER
Continuing professional development
CPD: the importance of ongoing yoga learning and training throughout your career.
By Catherine Mitchell
A good teacher training (TT) course is just the start of what can be an extremely fulfilling, sometimes challenging and, more often than not, transformative journey as a yoga teacher. During the course, elements of philosophy, anatomy and physiology complement practical teaching skills and other aspects relevant to teaching yoga in the real world. But once you have smiled for the group photo and framed your certificate, what next?
Continuing professional development, or CPD, is a vital component of being a safe and inspired yoga teacher, and keeping your teaching relevant for your students and the world around us. If you qualified as a teacher long ago, you may well have a wealth of practical experience and knowledge to draw upon, but is it still relevant? Are you receiving renewed inspiration to share with your classes? If you are new to teaching and enjoyed a wonderfully comprehensive anatomy module on your TT, you may find further questions arise after a year of teaching different bodies, each with their own ways of moving, history or injuries – perhaps further training on the body is now timely.