22 Aug 8 Reasons You Should Teach Yoga
Deciding to become a yoga teacher can be a life changing decision, especially if you live the corporate lifestyle. The decision to teach yoga usually follows a major life event such as an injury, health problem or relationship breakdown. These are all strong catalysts to take a new direction in life. Here at RE:treat, we have all personally struggled with the decision to move away from the 9-5 lifestyle, to seek out more meaning, fulfillment & a healthier lifestyle. To find a way of life that allows us to help others through yoga, connecting with nature & nourishing the body with delicious, local, organic food. For each of us, that decision turned out to be the right one for so many reasons. If you are considering a yoga teacher training, such as our 500 hour yoga teacher training in India in 2015, you are taking a positive step that will allow you to help others feel good, help other towards reaching their goals & to send out love, just to name a few benefits. Here’s the article from Yoganonymous, ‘8 Reasons You Should Teach Yoga‘.
Eat lunch. Commute Home. Work Out. Make Dinner. Repeat. Do you ever stop to think about WHY you do the things you do? Are you eating the quinoa salad because you’ve made it a million times already, or are you thoughtfully choosing the ingredients and preparing the meal with care? In other words, do you do things simply because it’s become routine or is there a deeper intention behind your actions?
This year, I’ve been questioning why I do certain things. And of course yoga was called into question. In a recent Wanderlust Journal article, I asked Wanderlusters why they do yoga. In the same vein, I was also curious about the yogis who had taken another step from student to teacher. So I interviewed a handful of Wanderlust teachers with one question, “Why do you teach yoga?”
1. To help others feel good
“I teach yoga because it makes people feel good about their bodies. I’ve learned to accept myself more, and I want to give that to other peope, especially in the dance world where it can be very discouraging sometimes.”
– Beau Campbell, dancer and yoga teacher
2. To be a better student
“I teach yoga because I want to be a better student. You learn so much when you teach; it’s a never-ending process of learning by teaching. There’s a certain point you start to stagnate as a student, and you just go out there and you teach to learn.”
– Schuyler Grant, co-creator of Wanderlust
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