Summary: This blog talks about why a yoga enthusiast must take a yoga teacher training program in the following places, Rishikesh and Nepal and how they will benefit from taking a training program under the guidance of experienced yoga teachers.

By mere definition alone, yoga is a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which including breath control, simple meditation and the adoption of specific bodily postures is widely practiced for health and relaxation all over the world. As we all know, yoga originated in India, and with the dawn of the 20th century, we have seen how yoga has spread like wild fire all over the world… like all real and genuine good things do.

This is directed to all the readers and practitioners who have started a journey into the world of yoga and have reached a point where their being has realized the wholesomeness, goodness and the confidence that this practice has brought to their lives.

Here are top 7 reasons why you need to do yoga teacher training

1. To avoid really serious injuries:

We are all aware of the injuries related to yoga when practiced without guidance, now to avoid that you must know all the right alignments, asanas, postures, and the slightest movements and how to do those slight postures in a correct and safe way. When you start to teach yoga, all these little nuances will matter so much because you wouldn’t want your students to get injured, rather prevent that injury.

1. To discover more in terms of the spiritual aspects:

The aspect of the yoga that is mostly physical may seem the most aesthetic part of practicing this discipline, undermining the spiritual growth that practicing each posture brings about. When you take training, the importance, the affects, the change that every posture brings to you is explained in its depth that helps you discover further aspects of a certain asana.

1. Influencing reasons:

When you take a yoga teacher training, you have the power to directly influence the community around you. The community that is back at home waiting  for you to enrich their lives with new information, directly affect their imaginations, strengths, communication, expression, behavior, intra-personal skills and so on… you must be willing to put in the necessary energy into a community building.

1. Passing down of valuable information (on a personal level):

And this practice brings with itself certain information about you to your own self that you hadn’t connected to earlier and was present within all this while, once you unravel this information, it gets added to the list of information that you pass on during reproduction. Life seems pretty easy and less complicated if you can see yourself as a mere cell that has grown, a cell that will produce the next cell and is creating all this survival tactics around itself to be the top species in the entire world. It is a natural occurring, that if the habitat of the cell is not sufficiently favorable (nurturing) it will choose to be self-sufficient and self-managed. But if the habitat of the cell is favorable, it will reproduce, that way when the cell dies, it hands down essential information to the next cell which hands it down to the next and so on and so forth.

1. Discovering more about your body and its functions:

Did you know that there are more connections in the human body than there are stars in the galaxy, we possess a gigantic network of information that we have almost no access to, whatever we have reached to be in this world, may be just by using 20-30% of our cerebral capacity (hypothetically speaking), by doing advanced practices like yoga, you make yourself a part of this evolution where you may be using more and more percentage of the connections that are unused and undiscovered.

1. Sharing experiences of people from so many countries:

During this yoga teacher training, one will have a lot of chance and opportunities to meet yoga enthusiasts from all over the world and this gives you a chance of learning in a multi cultural environment. It’s versatile, more fun and offers a good learning experience especially if you plan to take the yoga teacher training in Nepal, the divine land of the Himalayas.

1. Making oneself more inclusive of people around them:

A good yoga teacher will never just rely on their information of asana and techniques, they will incorporate the importance of regular practice and moreover correction in one’s own flaws so that students can lead by example of embodying the philosophies of yoga in their daily lives.

There can possibly be no harm that comes to the lives of those who practice yoga, because of the equilibrium that it brings you to, a state of satisfied moving forward. It may even be safe to say that with more cultures and people from different backgrounds do yoga, they bring something new each time, their own touch and understanding of this practice; to this practice and this evolves the practice along with the person practicing it.