I consider yoga instructors as a key society of warriors. Warrior one is your local yoga teacher whose category you can’t skip (ie, you may have changed your marriage schedule to attend lessons). Warrior one is the yoga teacher who travels the world hosting convention-planned sessions and spreads the love to millions of yogis. Warrior three could be the person in the office. At work he enters the same as you, in education he enters the same as you, in the mall he probably spends the same as you, and it turns out that she is also a yoga teacher.

Yoga instructors range from superstars to non-practitioners, and all teach the skills of yoga teacher training (YTT). If you’ve thought about yoga teacher training before, here are a few reasons why it’s time to take the plunge:

Deepen your actual exercise – Yoga training programs bring together students of all stages to learn from each other’s different body types, accidents, stages, and strengths. Seeing a classmate do his first headstand was a huge personal victory for me during my training. You know those kinds of poses you always wish the coach would avoid in class? Well, you might just learn to love them as you research and embody the correct positioning, mods, and perks of each pose in detail.

Learn some new skills – Whether you need extra training hours for research or want to be self-employed, attending a yoga class is something to add to the long list of things you have experience in. Once you have completed your training, you will be officially qualified to register with the Yoga Partnership as a licensed yoga instructor and access the guidelines to start your own studio, gain new students, and enjoy doing what you love. Becoming a yoga teacher offers the freedom of being self-employed, as well as the versatility to educate both locally and internationally.

Find your yoga family members – If there’s one overlooked benefit of yoga teacher training programs, it’s the yoga family members you’ll connect with for years after your last lesson.

Challenge yourself psychologically and physically – One of the best things my yoga teacher said to me during classes was: “As a beginner, your thoughts are in a million elements and your body is complete. As an expert, your body is in a million elements and your mind is complete”. As I deepened my actual exercise and included meditation, restorative asana, and chanting mechanisms, I found that I became more versatile both psychologically and physically. As I forced myself to exercise for several hours each day, I discovered that asanas comprised only one of the eight divisions of yoga. I began to explore all the other ways to develop a more complete and healthy way of life.