Whether you are a seasoned Yoga instructor, who needs to update your certification or expanding your continuing education, or you are just beginning your Yoga training to become an instructor, there are so many advantages to online Yoga teacher training.
The cost of in person instruction also includes hidden costs that must be added to the tuition cost of the training course. Hidden costs would include the cost for tutoring, study materials, membership, application, enrollment fees, and other hidden fees that the institution may choose to include. You do not have these additional hidden costs with online Yoga training.
You don’t need to worry about lodging and traveling expenses as you would with on-site training. Also, if you have family obligations, by taking online classes, you will still be able to care for your family. If you were away, you may have to plan and pay for childcare.
Online Yoga instructor training offers flexibility. Your time is valuable when you have obligations. Most people cannot drop everything in their lives to take a year to attend Yoga instructor certification courses. Online courses offer you the flexibility that you need to maintain your busy lifestyle while still getting the instruction you need to achieve your goals.
Archives for Teachers, Interns, and StudentsYears ago, people learned from scrolls. These days, we have the Internet to project ideas across distances. It is important for an online yoga teacher training center to have information about a variety of teaching situations. Below is an example of the type of information interns and teachers need to know.
Yet yoga is something different; it’s more than just what you’re doing with your body, and the mental aspects to support that. It’s about what you carry off the mat with you – breathing to help keep you emotionally balanced, lessons in how to better treat yourself and others, the importance of rest to let the effects of work soak in (and its necessity for all living beings), and so much more. It is truly a lifestyle.
As stated, they’re wonderful things in many people’s lives. Yoga doesn’t resonate with everyone, and that’s okay. I would much, much rather have those people in a Zumba class or lifting weights than not connecting with their bodies’ potentials at all. Sedentary lifestyles are a main driver of the public health crises of obesity, mental health issues, chronic inflammation-based illnesses, and more.
Pair Breath and MovementFor instance, offer flows such as Anjaneyasana (Low Lunge) to Ardha Hanumanasana (Half Split) and guide breaths in with the former, breaths out with the latter. The same can happen with wide-legged Half-Split and Lizard Lunge (only make sure to remind students of keeping proper toe-ankle-knee-hip alignment, and that they are free to instead take stillness with any preference or joint pain). A similar pairing is breath in with Ardha Uttanasana (Halfway Lift) and out with Uttanasana (Standing Forward Fold), as part of a Sun Salutation or as a flow on its own (repeated perhaps 3-4 times).
Share a Theme that Connects with Yogic Wisdom.This is possible through framing a yogic message in a way that it connects with the predominant movement, poses, and even mudras that you include in the class, the season, current events that might be on everyone’s mind, et cetera. One can also read a short poem or passage from writers such as Patanjali, Rumi, and various Swamis. Build your yoga library with books from which you can pull these kinds of theme-building passages (as well as for all other benefits that doing so confers). Such texts can also kick-start ideas for building themes from poses, flows, mudras, pranayama patterns, and more.
Other teachers’ themes in classes that you yourself take can also spur your own ideas. Certainly refrain from intellectual theft, but it’s completely legitimate (and beneficial) to let others’ themes inspire your own. All in all, Yoga class themes can help open up students’ awareness to how much the physical practice is intertwined with life off the mat, and from that work at practicing yogic values outside of practice itself. It can help engage their minds and hearts as their bodies work through the physical practice.
All of these truths that props put forth, when we instructors can meaningfully frame them, help reinforce teaching of yogic values – such as truthfulness, acceptance, non-violence, and respect for all beings. At the same time, students are receiving a very physically healthy practice. If the deeper yogic teachings don’t quite resonate, at least they’ve received that, and (so long as physical practice is kept moderated and physically safe) it’s all a net positive.
Summary
Online yoga teacher training makes the sharing of deep concepts possible over large distances. At the same time, we have the ability to cover every foundational aspect of practice, while deeper aspects can be discussed with a teacher trainer.
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