Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training is a great honor and responsibility. As the great Sufi poet, Rumi told us, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.” A great teacher does this for herself, and also helps others to do the same.
Vinyasa yoga teacher training leaves lots of room for you to grow your own yoga practice into something of grace, and beauty. Whether you plan on teaching Vinyasa yoga to a cadre of new clientele or you just want to intensify your own practice, you will find opportunities to water the early seeds of your yoga practice and see them grow into something beautiful, perhaps even grandiose.
You were probably drawn to Vinyasa yoga due to its grace in form, both aesthetically, and in the way it makes you feel, personally. Perhaps you share Sharon Gannon’s sentiment, “You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. “That natural state has become more apparent to you as you practice over time and you are ready to share that feeing with others. There are many Vinyasa Teacher Training programs that can help you explore that feeling more deeply.
Some of the most popular Vinyasa classes were started by Baron Baptiste in the late 1980s, and he is still teaching flow style yoga to many enthusiastic students today. His teacher trainings are all over the world. His fall immersion program is in Estes Park, Colorado this year, starting Sept. 18th, but others are offered in different places during different seasons if you won’t have a chance to make that particular training.
If you love Sun Salutations, the basis of most Vinyasa flow, then you can find a thousand and one places to salute the wind, the sun, the rivers, the stars and every aspect of the Universe. There are Vinyasa Yoga Training Centers from Ashtanga Yoga to Integrative Flow, to any kind of flow imaginable from Madrid, to Chicago, from Mexico City to New Zealand. You can find trainings that teach Vinyasa flow that is therapeutic, or advanced, it all depends on your preference. You can practice Vinyasa as the five Tibetan rites or as part of the Hatha yoga system.
Vinyasa yoga teacher trainings can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars for a weekend intensive to several thousand for a month long training. Pay more for well-versed teachers that come from the Sri K. Pattabhi Jois lineage, or from less well-known but equally talented teachers. As Jois points out in a famous quote, “Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” At a Vinyasa yoga teacher training you can put practice to work and return with the fruits of your labor.
Nyasa is Sanskrit for ‘to place,’ and vi is Sanskrit means ‘in a special way.’ Together it means to do yoga in a special way – a style of yoga that can be a Jivamukti style or Baron Baptiste style, Ashtanga or any other flowing style of yoga. Finding a quality Vinyasa teacher training can help you to find your own special place to commune with your higher self.
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