Teacher Training Home Certificates & Diplomas Prerequisites Distance Education Application FAQs	Classical Yoga Teacher Training Authentic Yoga teachers are fluent in the 8 Limbs of Yoga. These ‘limbs’ are tools for transformation from a constricted experience to a universal consciousness. They are practices which are meant to be understood in the context of the teachings of the Yoga Sutras. Needless to say, most people coming to a suburban Yoga class are looking for exercise and relaxation. That’s ok – and we certainly give them that. Some people even want meditation, though, sad to say, most will only be given a pleasant guided relaxation in their regular classes, nothing that would take them into the deeper transformation that Yoga offers. You must recognise that Yoga teachers have an obligation to be able to share the possibility of enlightenment with their students. Otherwise even beginners will not learn much from you. Does this mean you have to be fully enlightened yourself? No. But it does mean that you have to understand the fundamental difference between a yogic, enlightenment-oriented outlook and the ordinary state of mind. Clearing out obstructions to the enlightenment-oriented state involves work. And if you are not willing to do the work to reform your own understanding and share what Yoga really is with your students, then it would be better if you called what you do “Stretch and Relax Programs” instead of Yoga, and it would be better if your training ground was a gymnasium. It is good to remember the actual meaning of the word “Yoga”. It is a Sanskrit word that means, “union”. The notion of a 'Hatha Union teacher’, or an Iyengar Union teacher, or Bikram’s Hot Union, is as ridiculous as it sounds. So how can Yoga truly lead towards Union? That is the critical question to ask of the discipline of Yoga.
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