5 ways a Yoga Teacher Training can impact your life
Whether it is a career change, freedom to practice or to transform something about yourself, it is safe to say based on our past students experience, that the 200 hour process will lead to one or several of these transformative tipping points in your life:
1) Inspire yourself with a career change
Are you looking for a career change? Have you been in a job long enough that is unfulfilling or leaves you feeling empty? Are you discovering that your hours are going to be cut or worse still you are expected to work longer hours for similar pay?
Teaching yoga is more than a new job, it’s building community, connecting with people like yourself and permission to dream again.
You can create holidays in tropical locations, workshops to help underserved communities, whether you want to serve, retreat, or simply share, yoga makes a great choice for career change.
2) Grow your tribe
When you find yourself in a new town or are choosing where to go on holiday do you find yourself seeking out the local yoga studio? We do this because these people are our tribe. They care about what we do, know where to go for a great coffee, which day is the local farmers market or where to find the best vegan cake.
Yoga connects us to big hearted individuals, during a YTT to get to hang out with inspiring, glorious, beautiful, individuals from many different parts of the world who no doubt become life long friends.
3) Freedom to practice where and when you like
Investing in a yoga teacher training, you’ll have the ability to sequence your own yoga class and develop a self-practice. This means when you are travelling and there is no yoga class available you don’t need to go without, or if you are short of time you can simply roll out your mat and practice. Hotel room, public park, beach or airplane aisle with the skills you gain you can have fun safely anywhere.
4) Expand your knowledge
Are you curious about the esoteric world? Mind, body spirit connection, how the physical body operates, what yoga really is? After the YTT, you’ll have an understanding of its core philosophy and be able to participate in interesting conversations.
5) Transform yourself in 200 hours
Are you fed up? Looking to find meaning in your life? Want to work on personal development? Looking for a direction? A yoga teacher training is all about getting to know your Self.
Through observation, an insane amount of curiosity, self-awareness and tuning in we get to know who we really are. We will give you the tools to do this so you find clarity and meaning going forward.
If there is something holding you back, make sure you read Leyla’s blog “5 reasons NOT to go on a Yoga Retreat” to make sure you are not using reasons that hold no power over your decision.
Our next YTT is in Lamu Island, Kenya March 20th-April10th. Find out here about the content and program of the training.
Benny started out practicing Hatha and Iyengar yoga from the age of 15, but only discovered Yin Yoga in 2015, finally becoming a teacher in 2017. Since then she has never looked back and continues training in and teaching this wonderful practice wherever and whenever she can. Based in Kenya, she teaches studio classes in Nairobi.
Jordan has been practicing yoga for over 10 years in the US, Europe and Kenya. She received certification in Baptiste Power Yoga with the Africa Yoga Project in Kenya, completed the Karuna YTT in 2018 and recently completed a course in yoga for 12-step recovery.