Angelica GovaertOwner/Founder, Yogalebrity · Online Yoga Empire Builder

The Secrets Behind Yoga Teacher Trainings Revealed: Unlocking Your Teaching Potential

29 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker warns prospective yoga teachers that yoga teacher trainings vary widely, even when they are Yoga Alliance‑approved. The content stresses that the specific instructor leading a program heavily influences what is taught. Some trainings prioritize physical practice, while others, like the speaker’s own program, focus on teaching skills such as sequencing, class delivery, marketing, client acquisition, and even require teaching in Sanskrit. The overall message is to ask detailed questions and not assume all trainings are the same.

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you're going to want to ask a lot of questions and not assume that they're going to be the same because they won't be. The next thing you're going to want to know is that not all of the trainings are going to deliver the same thing. Even if a training is Yoga Alliance approved, they're going to be vastly different. It's going to matter who the teacher is. They're going to give you different instruction based on who the teachers are. Some teachers are going to focus a lot on physical practice, on your physical practice. My training tends to focus a lot on aspects of teaching, how to master sequencing, how to be really good at teaching a class, how to be a phenomenal teacher, how to market yourself, how to get yourself out there, how to gain clients, um, how to know what the traditional aspects of yoga are. Like, some trainings won't even teach you Sanskrit, and in my training you can only teach in Sanskrit. So all the trainings are going to be different.