Special report: teacher training
Learning beyond the learning
A yoga teacher training course is also a personal odyssey.
By Deborah Berryman
DURING THE COURSE
I’d been practicing yoga for six years before embarking on a YTT. It wasn’t because I wanted to teach, I simply wanted to deepen my practice and learn more about the big shifts I felt happening. Yoga gave me the sense of coming home, but to a home I’d never known. The kind no one can take from you. I had no intention of teaching, because I had a huge fear of public speaking, of making myself vulnerable in that way. But I felt stuck and knew things needed to change, I just didn’t have a map, or the right tools. Teacher training offered three powerful lessons to take away.