How much yoga training is enough?
…Yet, I’m still a yoga student- practicing regularly under the guidance of truly senior teachers, a title few in this impacted industry (there’s that word I hate again), can claim. Frankly, the more I learn about the Art and Science of Yoga, the more questions I have…generally pretty profound contemplative questions with no clear answers, but today, I ask a pretty mundane one: Is 200 hours really enough for someone to be teaching yoga!?
Choosing a Yoga Teacher Training
Back in the 90’s, when the electronic music scene was big in the Bay Area, it seemed like everyone wanted to be a DJ. There was even a song, “(I Just Want to Be A) Drummer” that listed all the people who wanted to be a DJ: “....my girlfriend wants to be a DJ, my cat wants to be a DJ, my goldfish wants to be a DJ…” Perhaps it just seemed that way because back then that was my social scene and I was DJing. Now that I’ve been teaching yoga for nearly 15 years, and managing a studio for a decade, it seems like everyone wants to be a yoga teacher. And a majority of yoga studios are capitalizing on this by offering teacher trainings.