What Will You Learn in a Yoga Training Program for Teachers?
Experiences vary, of course. One may be very different from each other, and in fact, I would say that two things are not alike. You live and learn during a training course for a yoga teacher and it changes according to the tradition of yoga you are learning and more particular focus given to this tradition, because within schools, they may have different interpretations and contemporary adaptations. There are some more mystical than others, some more ascetic, some more physical, some more devotional, some classic and some quite innovative and even eclectic.
In addition to the stamp that each teacher or tradition puts you to training, there are other variants that determine your experience as teachers to guide you to the particular vibration of where you are studying, the group energy, and the strictness of the course according to the program duration, intensity and involving changes in your life, the dives are more physically and mentally strong, although all courses involve discipline and efforts. There is a great deal in this regard, but there is another component, perhaps the most important and this is the way we live.
You may get in tune with the thinking of yoga, because you live and practice, but it may be that, due to the requirement, you return to your old beliefs and systems and mental patterns, or you may find this way of seeing the world something completely new, and it is that you are really going to learn. Yoga is not taught or transmitted but it is lived, so there is no case I tell you exactly what you should know. I just share with you some principles of yoga that transform and enrich any experience and it can be important to remember in times of challenges.
The yoga teacher training programs may vary slightly. Some of the topics covering the various programs can be, for example, yogic nutrition, yoga philosophy in everyday life, prenatal yoga, children's yoga or yoga-therapy in addition to the main topics of postures and basic philosophy. Besides this, there are some variations, because some schools include practices such as community work (karma yoga), while others delve into the relationship with the environment and the role in society or nutrition with vegetarianism and sattvic yogic. The practice of this philosophy may also include devotional practices (Bhakti), Satsang (meetings with the group), mudras, music, mantras and singing. Some courses have assignments and an exam or final work.
Yoga in India is very deeply rooted with a great number of famous yogis and their followers and it is an idea place to learn yoga with perfection.
