Yoga is not about the shape of your body
by Irene and Josh (OM People Yoga) and the team at Unite Health.
When are we ready to teach Yoga? The question that we are asked most frequently regarding teacher training is how much experience do we need in order to teach. Too often it is believed that you must have accomplished a certain number of postures in order to be able to teach yoga effectively to others. This is an incorrect idea that modern yoga has conditioned the world to believe. The 7-thousand-year-old system of Yoga has only become focused on performing postures with the body in the last few decades. Although Yoga practice offers a vast array of systemic and musculoskeletal benefits for the physical body, including flexibility, stability, strength and balance; Yoga is not about the shape of your body.
Yoga is a system for expanding our awareness of ourselves to include our body, mind and emotions through to the subtlest parts of who we are. This is not a process that can be mastered through learning a few physical postures. The potency of the practice is revealed through integrating all the compartmentalised parts of ourselves into a holistic being; where we don’t just treat or avoid injury and illness but learn to return to an inner balance from which we can truly thrive. This is what the system of Yoga offers.
As more people living fast paced modern lives are experiencing mental and emotional unbalance and excess stress in their nervous system leading to poor physical health Yoga and meditation are rising in popularity not as peripheral eastern offerings but as practices that are widely accepted as vital in order to allow us to re-establish a homeostasis in ourselves.
This practice is an opportunity to create the conditions for us to embrace ourselves and life with a steady, stable mind; a balanced, healthy body and greater self-awareness. We learn to take responsibility and reclaim control of our lives. Yoga is not about the shape of your body. It is about the shape of your life!
Sharing this experience is infinitely gratifying however how do we share the power of the practice to transform if we have not experienced these shifts within ourselves. Discovering the power of the practice is not about how many years you have practiced for or how many postures you have mastered. It requires an immersive dive into dedicated daily practice and study. This is the container that a teacher training provides.
If you are wondering if you are ready to teach Yoga the real question is are you ready to be a dedicated STUDENT of Yoga? Becoming a great teacher involves a commitment to your own practice. This is an embodied practice that can only be mastered through our own experiences exploring Yoga.
Our OM People Hatha Yoga Teacher Training provides the tools in order to dive deep into the methodology and practice of breathing, yoga postures and meditation whilst grounding the practice in a foundation of applied yoga philosophy that will empower students to advance their personal practice no matter how long they have been practicing.
It is only from your own unique experience of the power of yoga that you can share it authentically and skilfully with others. No matter whether you are intending to become a full-time yoga teacher, wanting to share the holistic system of yoga to compliment your current clinical practice or are simply desiring to deepen your personal yoga practice you are ready to join us in April 2019.
We have designed a non-residential intensive course which can take any student into the power that yoga has to transform. Our masterfully crafted course has been created to reveal this in just 15 contact days whilst meeting the requirements for a 200hr Yoga Alliance Certification, making it the only course of its kind in Australia.
If you have read this far there is a charm that is drawing you towards this experience and we are here to support you uncovering how you would like to share Yoga to transform the lives of your future students.
To book or find out more about our 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in Melbourne in April 2019, click HERE.
