How to Become a Yoga Teacher - Self

How to start the journey of yoga teacher training?  Does yoga instructor training start to date, intensive, or through years of practice with Swami?  The calling to teach any subject; It stems from enough to learn about the subject, to be able to guide others who want to know more.

The first requirement is training in yoga, it is to be ready to learn his true self.  This internal study makes a unique yoga, compared to some of the subjects that require us to learn how a particular subject related to external issues.  Yogic self requires hours of research, practice and change.

To see your true self, it can be difficult, because the ego is the great deceiver.  The main task of the ego often associated with self-defense than deception.  Practice yoga withdrawal feelings and focus on the inner essence (pratyahara) is a method of finding the truth.  At the same time, practicing yoga Pratyahara helps expel emotional damage.

There are many good quality books for the study of yoga; but the "Yoga Sutras" by Patanjali Maharishi, and "Hatha Yoga Pradipika," Swami Swatmarama, excellent basic reference.  There are many interpretations from Sanskrit into English, so it might take a cross-reference to achieve a state of clarity in reading the classics above, however, the time is worth a lot.

There are many forms of yoga; some of them are not known outside of India.  Although Hatha Yoga has achieved worldwide fame, it is necessary for teachers to understand the differences and similarities in the major Indian yoga systems.  By investing the time to learn and practice, we understand that yoga is a complete integrated system, which allows us to understand ourselves in the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual planes of existence.

In a direct sense perception (PRATYAKSHA) becomes difficult to find a true method, meditation, mantra, and a fair hearing, can also be useful tools.  Objectively, hear, or read the opinion of others, requires patience, as there are many different points of view.  When we absorb opposing opinions, and effectively treat them, most likely, we can come to the third point of view that some form of mutual agreement.