Why Do A Yoga Teacher Training

If you’ve been practicing yoga and it has moved you or had a massive effect on you, you may be interested in learning why to take a yoga teacher training (YTT).

Personal Practice Improvement: YTT

One of the main benefits in why you should take a yoga teacher training is basically you learn more about yoga. Learning more about yoga has a tremendous effect on one’s own personal practice. 

If you’ve been going to yoga classes for years and feel like you’ve reached a plateau with the knowledge you’re gaining in yoga, taking a yoga teacher training will blow that out of the water and all of a sudden the entire world of yoga will open up to you. This in turn makes one’s personal practice renewed and enjoyable.

Personal Issues

One of the main things that people never consider when considering  a YTT is can help you with personal issues. 

One of the main mantras of yoga is to find your genuine self or to come back to the real essence of who you are: your soul. 

This is because yoga is about slowing things down via meditation and pranayama. And for most students it leads to them catching the thinking patterns that they have. 

You will always come across yoga teachers who are fake and pretentious,  but you will also find that the majority of yoga teachers are genuine and kind. This has a lot to do with they have extricated their own personal issues by doing a yoga teacher training. 

Learn Teach

Finally the main reason why you should take a YTT is it teaches you how to teach yoga. 

Regardless of where you take your YTT be it Vancouver, Victoria , Kamloops, Banff, Jasper, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Regina, Saskatoon,  Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, St Johns, no reputable yoga teacher training program would certify a student if they did not feel that they had reached a basic level of being able to teach. 

Most yoga teacher trainings, make students teach at least one certification class (other make them do this several times) to the other students in the program. This assures the practical ability to teach yoga

In The End

In the end, there are many reasons why you should take a yoga teacher training. It will teach you to teach yoga, and it will help you with your own personal journey/issues. And lastly,  it will help you to enhance her own personal practice.