| Whether you are a Yoga teacher, or just started | | | | teacher can be a quest within itself. |
| practicing today, the following tips will useful. There is a | | | | One qualification that people overlook in teachers is |
| common belief that natural flexibility is the primary | | | | their passion for passing on knowledge. There are |
| exceptional quality among Hatha Yoga practitioners. In | | | | many good Yoga teachers who are not famous. If a |
| the struggle to become more flexible than the person | | | | teacher takes the time to "pass the torch" to his or her |
| next to us, we may become frustrated enough to | | | | students, that is the first measurement. A |
| push and pull our bodies beyond their limits. | | | | self-absorbed teacher will not guide you - no matter |
| Yoga instructors often tell new students not to force, | | | | how famous he or she may be. |
| leave competition at the door, and breathe into a given | | | | 3. Independent study is time spent discovering the |
| posture (asana). The average student listens, but some | | | | many facets of Yoga. If a person studied every |
| students are driven by competition. How can a | | | | technique, the subtle body, the physical body, various |
| competitive person "turn the switch off?" It's not easy | | | | forms of meditation, pranayama, history, and |
| to stop a lifelong habit. However, making progress in | | | | philosophy - one lifetime is not enough time to learn it |
| the study of Yoga is not a race. | | | | all. This is something we must accept, but we can |
| 1. Continuity in Yoga practice is the first key to | | | | design a weekly schedule, which will help us improve |
| improving. The student, who spends part of each day | | | | our knowledge. |
| practicing Yoga, will advance and become | | | | If you study Yoga for one hour per day - at the end |
| well-rounded in knowledge. Physical mastery is part of | | | | of one year, you have 365 hours of Yogic studies. |
| Hatha Yoga, but it is not everything. Older students and | | | | After four years of study, at that pace, you would |
| seasoned teachers know Hatha Yoga requires | | | | have 1460 hours of study. Do you think your Yoga |
| knowledge. This is much more than walking into a | | | | practice would improve with nearly 1500 hours of |
| class with God-given flexibility. | | | | study? Of course, but how many people really persist |
| 2. Look for guidance in your studies. The student / | | | | in their practice? The secret to independent study is to |
| teacher relationship, with a Yoga teacher, Guru, or | | | | "stay the course." The pursuit of knowledge is a |
| Swami is sometimes taken for granted. There is | | | | healthy addiction, which benefits you and those who |
| nothing like a bond with a person who has been where | | | | learn from you. |
| you are. On the other hand, finding a competent | | | | |