Guest guest Posted June 28, 2002 Report Share Posted June 28, 2002 I am halfway through my one year Hatha yoga course here in NS, Canada. The class is taught in the Kripalu fashion. I have started teaching hatha yoga at the community centre and I really love it. I am most interested in bringing awareness to people about Kundalini yoga and the chakras. I am at a retreat with teachers next week and will be teaching a class, including information on the chakras and kundalini energy. Please send your positive energy to me as I prepare and give my class. Sat Nam, Sangeet Kaur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 Sat Nam Simonetta, Like I've expressed in the past...the call to teach is something that begins in the heart. In Ky there is no initiation...you initiate yourself through your practice of the teachings. So it's hard to talk about "ethics" in the the way that you want to. I think that if you feel the calling..then proceed and follow it regardless of how long you have been practicing. There are Teacher training courses you can take to become certified....look at 3ho.org for the link....I just noticed that there are about 20 teachers listed in the New York area in the Teacher's listings. Most Ky centers run a Teachers Training program and I believe in New York you have Yoga East? which would be a place to look. I had never taken yoga before in my life...4 years ago I signed up for a Hatha Yoga class and I recieved a call saying it was cancelled a day before it was schedualed to begin...the only other class in the slot I had available was a KY class. I didn't want to take it...but I didn't want to lose the momentum that had got me to finally sign up for the hatha class in t6he first place....so I took it. I've never looked back....and I thank God everyday that a higher power is orchestrating my life. 7 months into beginning my Ky class I began to feel extremely unsettled in my job..it was becoming painful almost...but I had no vision of what the possibilities might be for me.... One day driving in my car..I heard a voice as plain as day say..."Quit your job and go teach yoga". At the time I thought this was the "craziest" thing I'd ever heard...having never practiced yoga before and my only experience with yoga teachers being the very few hatha yogis I'd seen around, who most of them were older people who had practiced for 20 some years. I thought..I'll be dead by the time I'm ready to teach! But I did it anyways. I threw caution to the wind and I trusted the process that was unfolding....I had no idea how this could possibly turn out? But I felt such a strong calling within me to follow I just couldn't ignore it. So after that, I decided I'd better show up to class with note book and take a few notes! ha ha! So how long you've been practicing isn't an indication of whether it's appropriate or not....it's your level of committement to practicing and living the teachings that is key. And as you grow this solidifies with everyday that passes. You don't have to be perfect to begin...but you need to stay open to the idea that as time passes you continue to learn...having a certification may feel like a "stamp" of approval, but like most things..it's really just a launching pad...a base or foundation from which to begin. All blessings, Sat Sangeet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 Dear Sat Sangeet... I just wanted to thank you for writing about your personal experience of your path towards teaching. I have been going through a sort of personal crisis where I have been wanting to teach yoga for a while but I always have it in my head that you have to be basically doing it from the time you pop out of the womb! Well...I'm far from being a kid and I'm 32 now. I have been doing yoga for about 5 years now and I started doing KY in the fall of 2000. I have wanted to teach it ever since my first class. I'm so unsettled in my life and the only thing I can see myself doing in the future IS teaching. Did you take the teacher training in NM? I live in Canada in Montreal and I have not come across a ky teacher program here. Maybe someone out there can point me in the right direction? I think I just need a good kick in the butt to get myself started. Sat Nam Anand _______________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 - Dear Anand Kaur, Here is what I suggest: If you feel attracted to teaching kundalini yoga and feel you have the basic competence (don't worry about the confidence, that comes with experience) go ahead and do it. If it works for you, and you can build up a class, then it will be possible to get a teacher's training program going in Montreal at some time in the future. Teacher's training only works when there is a strong base of students and the more people teaching the more that base will grow. When you chant ong nam guru dev namo you are leaning on the golden chain, and it will ALWAYS cover you. You can also deal with problems by talking to people on this forum. If you also practice "the teachers oath" before class your mind will balance and there will be no problem. Good luck and may the Holy Nam prevail in your life as it has in mine. > > > > _______________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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