When I did my 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training in 2008, I never expected to teach yoga, and if I did end up teaching, never at my home studio (possibly one of the largest and best regarded in the state). And never never never in a million years did I have any aspirations, expectations, or even a fleeting desire or suspicion that I'd be part of the teacher training program.
And yet, here we are, 2019 and we're two months in to the studio's 12 teacher training class. I jumped into an assistants role midway through the 2010 training, and I've been there ever since. I think I had sub / temp / "until we find someone better" status for a year or so (no mention of me on the website for the 2011 training, but I made it onto the 2012 promotional material) but I guess it's worked out.
We started up again in January, and just finished our 2nd of 6 monthly training weekends. Once upon a time there would be a lot to say about it, but these days the training just kind of rolls on by. Which is not to say that it's not amazing to be part of, a huge privilege, and a lot of work (I picked up responsibility for updating most of the student and teacher printed material a few years back). But....you do something every year, for many years, and things start to run together, and some things end up getting done on auto-pilot.
I'm still kind of blue collar in terms of the yoga world - I went through a period of doing a lot of workshops and trainings but have stepped back from that in recent years, never did pursue a 500 Hr certification, and I could certainly get my E-RYT (experienced) which requires 1000 teaching hours. last time I checked I had taught 1530 classes, most of them 75 minutes long. So yeah, experienced.
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