Teach

For many teachers, the stillness and silence of the practice space is what we long to maintain within ourselves. Life though, has a habit of getting in the way. More than anything, being a teacher is about being a practitioner. I always say that we practice to learn about the practice, and we teach, to learn how to teach. They are two very separate and different experiences, and yet they each cultivate that sacred mindfulness within us. Teaching yoga is quite unlike teaching anything else, as it gives us such a rare, and precious glimpse into the heart of another human. For this reason, it is a great honor to share the gifts of our practice with others, as we too are seen as our truest selves.

If you’ve been teaching yoga for awhile, then you know that it’s not at all what it appears to be. At first, we have grand ideas of what the life of a yogi is all about, but if we stick with it long enough, we soon realize that there is little that is romantic about a life of practice. For if we are to teach, then we must practice first. Maintaining a yoga practice over the course of a month for a training is one thing, but to maintain a daily practice over years is quite another. Most of us will fall off the path, and more than once.  Here we strive to support teachers with classes that ask for a daily commitment to practice, amongst a community of teachers, so that we may grow and learn together. Regardless of what background you have in practice or teaching, our master classes are open to all teachers and traditions with a desire to deepen their understanding of what it means to be a good teacher.