Integral Yoga® Teacher Training

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[Music] I admire these people so much because they are stepping out of their life imagine you take consciously step out of your life for one month to go to a place called yoga Ville when people learn on the mat these beautiful beautiful yogic principles and they can they can see them and imagine them and experience them on the mat then I think that's when they start taking it away into their lives and I guess that's what I'm hoping for is to help be able to open on space for people I would love to take what I learn here and back to the patients at the VA or maybe into a homeless shelter and voluntary basis I really don't even know if I want to teach but I do know I want to expand my own practice and learn how to get more out of the yoga I love so much I have a strong belief in giving back and being able to help my teacher out at his school I came because I wanted to learn something about myself and something to pass on to others right now well at the beginning of the second week and even only after one week of intensive study or I find so beneficial the way the transformation takes place you're studying yoga and you're practicing and that in a way is a distraction for your mind so that the the power and the energy of the practices takes over and transforms you from deep within something shifts something emotional something physical completely shifts within each pose and it's fascinating you get to learn a lot in a very short amount of time and but it's always so exciting and they are always there to help teach and to make sure that you really really know it and that you soak it in and they do a beautiful job with it I find myself elated a lot of the time very energized things that I was a little worried about when I came would perhaps the shift in diet I'm a committed carnivores probably too strong but I have a meat-eater and I was a little worried about going vegetarian but actually the food is superb people are supportive it's a very friendly environment good have said years ago from the very beginning anyone wants to teach yoga they should come and live at the ashram live the life of a yogi for at least one month don't think about being a teacher thinking about becoming a yogi it's been a really amazing experience on every level more levels than I expected we're going deep into everything and we're getting really into these details that I had never had the opportunity to learn about and discover and experience for myself I feel completely centered after yoga class the yoga teacher holds space for a group of people and it's like a nursery in a sense it's warm and it's it's safe and it's transformative you really start to feel coming from a little warm that a caterpillar you start to kind of feel start killing into a butterfly and being here in this community which is so supportive I think that has really changed made a serious shift in me as a person and they've come out completely different I mean now I'm a yoga instructor not only am i changing my life I'm about to change the lives of the people around me and I'm about to have I mean a serious effect on everybody I come into contact with in the future you [Music]