hey this is Jerry we're here at Yoga Pod in Boulder and I'm excited to be sitting with Darice and Lauren two of our phenomenal teachers and we're excited to announce that we have two upcoming teacher trainings that are happening one in Longmont which starts September 21st and one here in Boulder starting September 22nd with these two amazing teachers as the co- facilitators we can't think of too many teachers that Encompass the experience the talent the passion that you two have thank you um we feel really blessed to have you doing this training for us thank you so much thanks thank you so who Darice do you think uh you would recommend this training too who out there should consider it so anyone who loves yoga who wants to deepen their practice one thing I encounter a lot is people who want to do the training and they don't necessarily want to teach that does not matter at all I didn't initially want to teach he didn't want to initially want to teach did you no no right yeah okay so that's just kind of a bonus that comes along with it but it it's just a deepening it's there's a Sanskrit word called sta which means self-study so the first month of the three-month program is dedicated to just learning about your own alignment uh posture clinics um yoga history philosophy Sanskrit just to deepen your knowledge and then to learn how to gain some skills to speak communicate um show up even if you're scared so these are very applicable skills to many different areas of life not just teaching yoga classes and yeah I and I know Lauren you Shar with me that you never want to take the training as just a how did that come out about for you then yeah I um I mean I was passionate about the practice and and study of it and I loved it for so many years but I never even considered taking teacher training I had another career but my teacher who's sitting right next to me um I of me almost made me cry it makes me emotional too oh yeah it's I mean what a full circle thing um the was my teacher I think that was 11 years ago um she said why don't you do it and I was sitting on the couch in the lobby and I was like it was the day before the training and it was like Wow remember it so quickly go I guess down the yeah I guess and I'm not even really a last minute kind of person but I said yes for some reason and the thing that transformed for me was going from being totally terrified to speak in public like no use of my voice to really fully comfortable speaking over these years and the training was the the kind of rdge to that and in the training I remember really being up against the edge of like this is scary to speak out loud but what a powerful thing to learn for our lives I feel that it's one of the most important things yeah and I think anyone who is familiar with you both of you would declare you both as very gifted speakers so it's really amazing what so what are the expectations that that participants um can have if they engage and invest their time in this training it's like going back to school quite honestly it's uh it it's a big commitment but it's broken down into small intervals so we meet three days a week 3 Hour 2 hour two hour chunks and a lot of hybrid learning so it's self-paced so it's it's a there's a lot of content um so you have an entire year to complete the program uh there is a combination of these in-person sessions as I mentioned three times a week and then self-paced video learning um hybrid learning yeah I'm so glad you mentioned that it's really cool what are the benefits that that a participant can can uh gain there's so many in the teacher training we cover bits of many aspects of the practice from Anatomy to philosophy to learning how to teach and I think what's really cool is that people can come out and really bring their focus toward the aspects that really light them up um and deepen their awareness and study around those parts but the benefits are deepening your practice understanding of alignment really understanding a bit more of the origin of where this amazing practice came from and the history around it and then like I mentioned just practicing getting a little bit uncomfortable like being in the unknown it's it's stretching scary yeah stret stretching really a healthy healthy challenge well I took it and it was really truly life changing uh if you know want to know more check out the link on the screen you can go to our website um if you want to sign up if you got any questions please let us know but we really appreciate you watching and we hope that um you take the leap and try it out it's really amazing and you'll never ever regret it promise right ladies right right definitely by