Pick the right course
Dealing with your own mental and emotional baggage on a teacher training course. By Kirsty Boulton and Jen Roche
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Meeting yourself in the depths of your practice — sensing, feeling and experiencing you as ‘you’ — can bring up a lot; often new experiences, emotions and a different sense of being.
It is important to meet and acknowledge everything, as this supports you to articulate what you are feeling, find understanding and work with it to allow it to shift and integrate. Remembering that everything is in movement.
Reflection, journaling and naming your experience is an important part of the process during training, supporting you to become an authentic teacher. Helping you to embody the philosophy and teach from your direct experience, rather than something you have been taught. We lead with our hearts, from our hearts.
As you dive in deeper you may meet joy, pain, pleasure, disease and more; the practice of yoga and its philosophy supports you to simply meet everything as it is. It is important to have an awareness that your training will be as much about you and your experience as it is the study of yoga. Practically, make sure you have space for you during the day. I always recommend getting outside during breaks. Try to make life easy for yourself outside of your training windows and ensure you have space to integrate back into work, life and other responsibilities after any intense periods of training.
Kirsty Boulton and Jen Roche from Rise Wellness Academy at Fold Yoga Studio. www.risewellnessacademy.co.uk www.foldyogastudio.com
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