Primero tienes que considerar cuales son tus objetivos detrás del profesorado. Podrías partir haciéndote las siguientes preguntas, lo haces por practica personal o porque quieres enseñar en el futuro? deseas profundizar en la filosofía del yoga? vivir una experiencia en India, con profesores locales e inmerso en la cultura? Aprender un estilo de enseñanza mas tradicional o mas occidentalizado?
Son muchos los objetivos personales, sin embargo te nombramos algunos aspectos importantes que te podrían ayudar a tomar la decisión correcta al momento de elegir en donde hacer tu profesorado de yoga en India.
- Certification by Yoga alliance, if you are looking to teach in the future by having a certification of yoga alliance, confirm that the school follows certain rules imposed by this regulatory body, where by meeting these standards, you can achieve this certification that has weight internationally and allows you to teach worldwide.
Yoga alliance provides a required framework for all RYS (registered yoga school = registered yoga school) that must be followed in order to teach a YTTC (yoga teacher training course)
You can always confirm on the yoga alliance webpage if a school is actually registered with the organization and offers this certification. If looking for the name of the school that teaches the course appears, it means that they are registered within yoga alliance, if the name of the school does not appear, it is simply not part of the organization and cannot offer such certification.
The basic studies that must offer a TTC of 200hrs are:
- Asana and Settings
- Anatomy
- Sequence
- Philosophy
- Use of props and modifications
- How it fits with your hands
- Yoga instructor / teacher practice
- Meditation
- Know who the teachers are, what their background is and what the experience they are going to share. It is a great advantage when teachers are from India, since they have lived since childhood with the influence of yoga in their lives and have started practicing from an early age, which makes them have experience and have a deep understanding of this millenary science
- Price, quality ratio, knowing in advance what the school offers, what type of accommodation, what it includes, and what is the value I am paying for it. You should receive an education with experienced teachers, be in a comfortable place and have all your meals included and have assistance or a visible face that represents the school at all times.
- Find out about the school you would like to do your yoga teachers, read comments from people who have attended social networks and even contact and ask acquaintances, it is essential to have heard by others or have a sense of who are the people behind from school, understand their values and that led them to be on the path of yoga.
- Place, it is important to be able to perform yoga teachers in a place that inspires you, that has history, that connects with yoga, that lives on spirituality. In India there are several places considered high energy, high healing power and special for this type of practice. Rishikesh in India is one of those places, it is considered the world capital of yoga, it is where many gurus lived and live, in the Himalayas, with the mountains outside and the energy of the Ganga. It is also important that you check on what dates you plan to travel since in certain places and dates it can be colder or hotter, depending on whether it is the north or south of India and in what season it is, which can be a factor in please or against according to your own sensitivity to temperature.
Considering these points and having clear what moves you to do a yoga teacher, we are sure that you will make the best decision and be clear that you will always learn, beyond the particular course, you will learn, from your classmates, from your teachers, of the place, of the people and especially of you.