...If you're reading this, it's probably a given that you are already a yoga fan. You know firsthand the benefits of incorporating yoga into your life: stress management, mental balance, and more. Perhaps it's time to take your love for this art and discipline a step further and become a yoga instructor.

Whether you're thinking of leaving your current job, or simply supplementing your income, becoming a yoga instructor may be the change you're craving. Deciding whether it's a good fit for you will require you to do some soul-searching. Take inventory of your own yoga experience and see if you relate to any of these benefits to teaching the art yourself:

* Have I ever been inspired by a yoga instructor? If you've been practicing for a long time, you may recall an instructor who really helped you achieve something that surprised you. What was it about him/her that made you accomplish what you thought you couldn't? How did you feel afterwards? Now, imagine being able to inspire that same sense of delight and accomplishmen...more

The Perseverance of teaching yoga, Part 2

...ovement.

The rewards for yoga teachers are many, but giving yoga instruction requires determination. You will run into obstacles, like any other profession, but how do you want to be remembered? Think about this: Every person you help will help someone else. You are causing a positive chain reaction by teaching yoga classes at a time when positive energy is in big demand.

As a yoga teacher, you have the potential to do enormous good, but you must focus your attention on your faithful yoga students, your family, and friends. It is normal to take people we are familiar with for granted, but you must persevere to appreciate what you already have.

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teaching hatha Yoga: The Transformation

... Ayurvedic medicine, or any one of the many yoga subjects that yoga teachers would logically pursue.

However, teaching yoga classes on a regular basis is a form of continuing education, as you learn to teach yoga students with different bodies, minds, and health conditions. This is where many Yoga teachers go through a gradual transformation toward Samadhi. Samadhi is the ability to control functions of the mind and body, while eliminating lifes daily distractions from the goal of complete consciousness.

To anyone who has never studied Yoga this seems like mission impossible. Yet, Yoga teachers learn to walk the talk of Yogic philosophy. What, at one time, seemed like a lofty goa...more

Learn The History Of Yoga

...nough, takes place on a battlefield. This location is often interpreted as a metaphor for the many distractions present in our turbulent world. Prince Arjuna had put himself in a difficult position, where he must fight parts of his family and friends.

Symbolically speaking, this frustration conveys that prince Arjuna wanted some advice on how to fight the bonds that tie him to the material world, in order to set himself and his soul free. Krishna explained that it was Arjuna's destiny and task to face this situation. He then moved on to explaining to Arjuna how he could emerge from the battle victorious, by outlining a detailed yogic path for the prince to follow; Through devotion (bhakti Yoga), a keen mind (jnana Yoga) and by giving up the ego (karma Yoga), spiritual freedom (moksha) could be attained.

Needless to say, the Bhagavad Gita is a complex work, and is meant to be studied, pondered upon and then studied some more. It is interesting reading in order to learn the history of Yoga though.more

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