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5 Ways Becoming A Yoga Teacher Will Change Your Life

People  come to yoga for different reasons. Some stop practicing because they don’t see or don’t practice it long enough to understand it’s incredible benefits in their lives.

For those whose who end up practicing yoga daily and diligently for years; there always comes the question: What the next step?

The Answer

So where do you take your practice? About seven years ago, I was asking myself that same question and actually all signs point to doing a yoga teacher training.

I like most starting out thought I could live my passion by simply getting certified and then getting a teaching job which would eventually become a full-time yoga teaching career. But it wasn’t that easy. But in the end, it ended up being life changing.

yoga students practicing teaching to each other

5 Reasons

So here are 5 reasons of how becoming a yoga teacher can/will change your life:

  1. Through your yoga training, you’ll begin the process of start thinking like a yoga teacher. And you will begin to realize that being a teacher and helping others is a far more rewarding then one could ever imagine. Whether you decide to open your own yoga studio or just teach yoga part-time.
  1. It is when we are in yoga teacher training program  we really begin to learn we have been living a false life. An awakening happens. It feels like something inside us has laid their dormant for years suddenly come alive.  There is a carefree part of us that longs to be a child again and yoga teacher training gives you permission again to be that way.
  1. Yoga teacher training allows you to immerse yourself into yoga. It makes you an expert on the other parts of practicing yoga: mudras, pranayamas, meditation. And these increase skills help  take your personal practice to the next level.
  1. Practicing yoga connects you to like minded people. Who sometimes become like family. This is because you are with people who are living yoga and who care past the false self.
  1. Practicing loving kindness and compassion! This does not mean going around hugging each other all day long. It simply means that you’re willing to put the same amount of energy into loving others that they would normally put into anger or fear.

yoga teacher lecturing at yoga teacher training

In The End

These are just 5 reasons how donga a ytt  can/will change your life forever. One big truth is also: Taking a yoga teacher training, teaches us that there are only two truths in this world: everyone wants to be loved. Everything else is secondary.