Any good yoga teachers training program will give its students a wide range of knowledge and experience with a yogic lifestyle. Yoga school is not meant to be something where you sit and learn like you do in an academic, traditional grade school setting. You aren't meant to memorize and recite facts, take tests, or write out reports. But you are meant to really experience the events. You're meant to delve more deeply into yourself so that you can return and help others find truth. Spiritual coaching, meditation, yoga asanas, and philosophy will help you do this. But it all happens on your own time, essentially, which is what that yoga school should help you understand. Everyone, really, is on their own time frame and we need to learn to be patient. This article will discuss some of what you'll want to see out of a good yoga teacher's training school. You'll definitely want to look out for the location and the environment of the program. Some people think that as long as you have great teachers and you are a good learner, that it doesn't matter where you get the information or do the practice. That's really not true, though. There is such a great difference between being in the Himalayas, for example, and then being in a small, stuffy room in a city in the U.S. There is innate inspiration you'll find in India or in a more natural, deeper setting. You may not realize it, but the stuffy city setting can actually affect how much you get out of it. You'd only really notice the difference when you had the same program in a different, more natural and quieter location.

Yoga school can be fun, exciting, inspirational, intimidating, transformational, and more. It is one of those choices that really change the way people feel. ItâEUR(TM)s a bold step into getting to know yourself betterâEUR"something that most people do not run to do. Yoga teachers training programs often emphasize this. You are actually coming here to get in better touch with yourself, rather than accumulating tons of knowledge that you can impart on students from books and physical practice. The thing of it is, a good yoga school knows that you have to guide the student to become a teacher naturally, by way of tapping into the innermost parts of the individual, so that truth that lies there can just come forth without resistance.

You'll want to also make sure that the quality of instruction is adequate. Who are your teachers? What is their expertise, and how do you like their personalities? You'll be getting your first real taste of a new level of yoga from these teachers, so make sure you agree with them. You'll be learning asana practice, meditation, and psychology and philosophy--these being the main parts of yoga. The asana practice should be an important first part of the program, but it should always have the intention of moving beyond that practice eventually.