The Yoga Teacher And The Ongoing Relationship With The Yoga Ashram
by on Jul.31, 2010, under Uncategorized
The yoga ashram is a usually quite a well known concept for the yoga teacher. Many of us have probably even been or stayed on a yoga ashram. Indeed, many of us could have taken our yoga teacher training course at the ashram.
But how many of us are still drawing from the well of the ashram still today?
The yoga ashram still has an abundance to offer even when a yoga teacher is well established and running their own yoga business.
Firstly for any burnt out yoga teachers, the ashram offers a place of rejuvenation and return to self. It is a common problem that yoga teachers have full schedules and have difficulty with finding enough time for themselves. Yoga teachers are often burnt out running from session to session.
Here the ashram offers a space to retreat to oneself, rebalance, regain energy and return to ones own practice.
Taking it a step further, the yoga ashram is a great place to reinforce all that has been learnt. Returning to the ashram is an opportunity to gain higher levels of understanding having integrated prior teachings.
All of this means, taking your practice to the next level. The opportunity to deepen ones practice. An opportunity to connect with yourself at a deeper level and your yoga practice.
Ashrams offer further teacher trainings and courses too. If there is something you would love to integrate into your teaching or practice return to learn this.
As a yoga teacher, keeping ones practice fresh and vital means integrating new knowledge. Here is where the ashram comes in and helps.
Ashrams are often running different courses and teachings like advanced pranayama, yoga anatomy and physiology refreshers, yoga therapy courses, detoxification courses and asana specific workshops. This is a great way to keep your own learning fresh, active and vital.
Returning to the ashram is a fantastic approach to enhance understanding and further ones own practice. However the final result is that everyone benefits because the new trainings that you integrate into your own practice gets transmitted back to your students. Everyone benefits. Your students receive better classes and you become a better teacher.
