What is Yoga Mentoring?
In my way of seeing it, yoga mentoring comes in many forms depending on the circumstances.
For instance, you might ask for mentoring as a yoga student, a yoga practitioner wanting to be a teacher, a yoga teacher in training or in the process of becoming certified, or a certified teacher looking to grow.
There are many stages along the path of practicing and teaching yoga. Mentoring is something that can be sought out whenever you yearn to grow with one-on-one training and guidance.
I have mentored many students who have become teachers or who came to me for further development in their teaching. What I am starting to do, and really enjoy, is acting as mentor and trainer to personally certify yoga teachers who have been students of mine. This one-on-one mentoring is something special and I’m glad to be exploring this avenue of serving as a teacher.
It’s outside the box in today’s world of yoga teacher training programs and courses, though most of these programs are excellent and have great benefits. So I’m in no way knocking anyone else’s way of training teachers. This is simply what I’m doing right now, and this article examines my thoughts on this role I’m playing.
Through one-on-one mentoring I can not only teach the essential knowledge any yoga teacher would consider a necessary foundation, but I can cater to the individual student’s specific needs of development. I can also draw upon experiences and trainings the individual has received elsewhere to enhance and integrate their existing skills.
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