Yoga Teacher Training: BEFORE
Ready or not?
There’s no time like the present! Suzanne Davies explores the common reasons students delay taking the plunge into teacher training
How do you know when you’re ready to embark on a yoga teacher training? Well chances are, if you’re reading this, you already are! But if you still need convincing, here are my responses to the concerns I hear the most.
I’m not good enough
This is what I hear the most. How can I train to be a teacher when I can’t do all the poses properly? Well, here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter.
I had these thoughts when I signed up to my teacher training. A couple of months before the training was due to start, I entered a wild panic. I tried to force my body into poses it wasn’t designed for and attempted to lose a stone in weight with some crazy idea of trying to look more ‘yogic’. It was, of course, irrational, but, in my apprehensive state, the course was going to be full of young, slim contortionists, and I was going to be the old fraud.