Yoga Teacher Training: AFTER
What next?
Logical career steps after your teacher training course.
By Nicole Zimbler
So, you have gone through the personal journey and commitment of a YTT. If you are anything like me (who attended their first training in 1998 in the traditional ashram Sivananda style yoga), this has totally whet your appetite for the many layers of what more yoga can offer personally and professionally.
You may feel that, depending on your individual life experiences, interests or preferences, you are drawn to deepen your knowledge in a more specialist field of teaching, and this is the wonderful thing about yoga. It is incredibly versatile, authentic and accessible in meeting the direct needs of others as a support for their overall health and wellbeing.
Yoga, in itself, is naturally therapeutic, diverse and inclusive. Therefore, with a little extra input it has enormous potential to branch into areas of health or wellbeing that you are drawn towards and reach numerous sub-sectors of the population, such as pregnancy or baby yoga, children’s yoga, teen yoga, women’s/ men’s healthcare, or in support of a medical condition such as cancer care, Multiple Sclerosis, rehabilitation, or mental health conditions, which may lead to a more specialist trauma-informed yoga approach. You may be drawn to extend your knowledge and skill to teach in particular areas of yoga such as meditation or yoga nidra, or even want to go that bit further and train fully as a yoga therapist.