Mariza yoga

One of my favourite parts of teacher training is the weeks that follow the end of a course- not for a minute because I am pleased to say goodbye - but because its the time that follows graduation where people begin to find their wings.
Teacher training is so often a process of unlearning, we need to go back to basics and not learn how to do yoga but how to teach yoga. I think for some students this is the biggest shock of all, we have an image of TT in mind where we will go to a beautiful location, switch off from daily life and do nothing but indulge and develop our own practice. And whilst this is certainly a big part of the course - after all, we cannot really teach what we dont know - I think a bigger part is learning who we are, who we might want to be as teachers - finding both our voice and our dharma - that message which we all have to share and which it would be unjust to keep hidden away.