What are the requirements of a yoga
teacher? When we are only teaching asana, pranayama, body work, muscle work and
energy work, we need to be harmonized with our body, with our movements and our
breath. But we're not controlling our minds. We are controlling the body and
not the mind. We ensure that the body does the postures correctly, but the mind
is free to think whatever it wants.
In addition to yoga
teacher training India, teachers are given a specific Sadhana to improve their
skills in teaching and to handle all their mental material. As a rule, each
teacher has to write a diary in which one has to strive to imbibe and implement
the yoga principles and not only do the practices alone. Choose one of the
principles of yoga and work on it for a month. So, that principle becomes your Sadhana
as a teacher for a month. Then choose another principle and work on it for
another month, and continues to work in this way.
What are these principles? There are many
teachers who know their strengths, weaknesses, ambitions and needs (SWAN). So
teachers should regularly practice SWAN as Sadhana. As you prepare your
classes, taking notes from books and preparing to get to the public and teach a
class or lecture, you should be able to look in the newspaper and recognize who
you are and where you are, and right now what that stands out in your life.
Along with this, the teacher should
strive to be in a positive mental state before teaching classes. How? What not
to do is get home from work, change quickly and get into a yoga class with all
the stress of work, because in this way teacher is teaching students to relax
while the teacher's mind is under pressure and tension.
Before giving a yoga class, the
teacher must doten minutes of meditation to make sure it is in the right mental
state to teach the class. In those ten minutes of meditation it must be
identified with a principle of yoga and become that principle.
As a teacher, for a month practice
serenity for ten minutes before your classes and then taught the class,
maintaining that state of serenity. As a teacher of yoga, practice for a month
the absence of vanity.
Therefore, yoga teachers must become
more humble to students along with their teaching in classes. One must learn to
control themselves. When we have the idea of teaching in Akshara Yoga School
- yoga teacher training India, we identify with the ego. When
there is identification with the ego, you cannot connect with the principles of
yoga. In fact, the criterion of a yoga teacher is not telling people how to
practice yoga or how to teach yoga. To be a good yoga teacher, after training you
must be identified with the principles of yoga and not practical.
