The Teacher Training course is planned out carefully in advance, so that everything the students
need to know is delivered in an accessible way. However, reading the syllabus is
just one part of the whole experience. Here’s a personal insight from one of
Yogafurie’s 2016 students:
I think the very nature of studying yoga in greater depth means you end up
asking a lot of philosophical questions you very rarely encounter in “normal”;
life. I’m not sure the point is to really completely answer all of the questions
that come up along the way in this respect. Although I certainly have enjoyed
using my brain in a very different way. While learning anatomy and
Sanskrit has felt more academic (and really nice seeing as university feels
like centuries ago), talking about what’s expected of yoga teachers and the
theories from which yoga was formed has been very challenging. You do
very much have to keep reminding yourself to come at it with an open mind
as it’s been around much longer than we have. Plus (a more humbling point)
draws on so many different people’s experiences through history.
Final thought would be that you realise just how much you expect your yoga
teachers to do and not do during a class. Furthermore you realise it’s very
hard to please every person’s different expectations of what a class “should”;
be.
Final final thing – it’s easy to start over-analysing every class you go to.
However the massive benefit of doing this teacher training is that you definitely do
become much more body and safety-aware in your own practice and in
observing others.
