Yoga Teacher Ethics | Part 1 | Kashish Yoga | 300 Hrs Teacher Training Course | By Ritesh Patel

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Namaste to all of you so today our topic is about ethics okay so our topic today is ethics of a yoga teacher okay now it becomes very important as yoga teachers that we should have some you know Commandments like how we have the yamas and niyamas you know the Ten Commandments we can say in the same way teacher as a yoga teacher there should be some ethics you know some rules that is Yoga teachers we should follow okay so let's get into the Journey of understanding what it is now teaching ethics let's go first is uphold the yoga image what does that means upholding a yoga image it means as when I am going out teaching people you know giving them Yogi kasanas I am having an image of a yoga teacher I should when I go when I teach when I behave all that affects the word yoga if you do something wrong your image definitely gets your image definitely gets spoiled but the image of yoga also gets spoiled do you understand that so you have to uphold that image of a yoga teacher lots of lots of you know rules that one has to follow when you are you know representing yourself as a yoga teacher so it becomes very important that you uphill that image you have seen many yoga teachers you have seen the metoo movement and in that metoo movement lots of yoga teachers were you know actually shown the real world whether it is uh the hot yoga of Vikram Chaudhary or the Himalayan yoga tradition of Swami Rama or Stanga yoga of so all these wherever you go wherever you teach you have to represent you are representing yoga if in that case there is a particular image so let's go with that one some of the things that I believe is very important just go through that what else self practice so first and foremost thing as you're doing your 200 and you're getting into 300 the first and foremost important thing is self practice now what happens you are teaching might be three classes four classes six classes in a day a state is going to come when you say I don't have time for my self practice and what you will give as an excuse you know what because I'm teaching the student I am also doing the asanas and my practice happens no that's completely wrong a self-practice means it's your mat it's your space and for that one hour 30 minutes that you're practicing whether it be in the mornings whether it can be in the evenings you have to practice I have seen many of my friends who are earning very good but they don't have time for their own self self practice remember it's a field where the more you self practice the more you get confident as a yoga teacher 100 there's no doubt about it but if you feel like I am teaching my students and I'm doing my self practice you are falsifying yourself and I've seen that with myself also there was a time I needed money and I needed eight at nine nine classes in a day but then I realized I was you know I was burning myself you burn yourself you don't realize that then what was the sense of becoming a yoga teacher I was better in my job that I was doing nine to five why are you thinking to you know might be self practice or might be teach further later on if you cannot take out time for your own self practice it doesn't make any sense to become a yoga teacher because the whole sense of is improving myself learning something more about myself so self practice is the most essential thing whenever you start teaching always see if I have that 30 minutes one hour for my own practice so apart from all your teaching private groups Studios whatever that you're doing teachers training courses anything and everything that you do take out that 60 Minutes take out that 30 minutes for your pranayama for your meditation whatever that you call but do not forget this self practice that's the first case as yoga teachers these are my ethics that when I'm teaching someone and I'm saying you know what it is good for you to practice yoga but what about me the three fingers are pointing me saying what about you ritesh I realize I am not practicing so if I am not practicing how would I have the right to tell you that you practice and that happens most of the time you know if also fine oh you should practice you know yoga is very good meditation is very good but what about you as yoga teachers can't you question yourself and say you know what actually I'm also not practicing this is the fact I'm talking about that's the reason self practice that's the first thing is keep that thing in mind all the time as a yoga teacher I need to self practice self-practice self practice Yeah then the second step comes educate education so what happens if I did a 200 I finished my 200 whatever that I have absorbed myself I need to you know read a bit more practice a bit more go deeper into that after that I feel like you know why uh I feel I'm more uh you know enthusiastic towards Ashtanga Yoga I like a stronger yoga more go deeper into a stronger year you feel like you know I love this meditation more go deeper into meditation that means you keep educating yourself in different streams of yoga because tomorrow if you are hired by any uh you know a resort or if you're hired by any Studio If you hired by any of these yoga schools like tomorrow if you have good knowledge about aerial yoga or Acro yoga and you can say you know I can teach aerial yoga Acro yoga very well you would be hired so first of all you keep educating yourself not only in the physical aspect of yoga not only otherwise you will be named does what a awesome teacher and a yoga teacher is a whole but the problem is whenever someone says I do yoga they only think physical it's all about the ashtang yoga the eight limbs of yoga when we talk about so that's the reason educate yourself keep upgrading yourself that will help you a lot does it make sense yes so you need to educate just don't stop by but it doesn't mean I did 200 next month I'm doing something else next month I'm doing some don't do that absorb what you have learned you have learned a lot of things here in 200 and 300 don't just rush and key there are many people who keep accumulating accumulating at the end they don't actually know where to go take your time do you really feel from 200 to really jump into 300 are you happy with your 200 for your own self practice that is what you need to decide do I really want to take it as a profession it is just for myself I'm happy with my job that I am doing you really need to decide and think over it because it's not an easy path if you want to become a yoga teacher let me tell you that it's not easy if you're earning a good salary in your business or any of the job you really need to think twice yes there are hurdles but it's a beautiful life let me tell you that you will love it but yes hurdles are there I'll talk about it later on because these all what I'm sharing is my experiences there was a time I have to take loan from my friends to just to tell my wife that I'm earning good in yoga you understand that that was a scenario but things have changed now okay anyhow self practice very important educate yourself that's very very very important yeah what else consultation now when it comes when you start teaching your yoga you're right the first and foremost thing is consultation means for me according to me is when I meet a student for the first time whether it is group whether it is private I need to sit with him and talk to him and especially it is in the aim of yoga therapy that I would like to know about my student why he is joining the yoga or my Asana what is the aim behind is it he's focusing on Fitness does he have some issues that he's not letting me know has he gone through any surgery does he has any back pain hernia asthma anything that I don't know that's the reason the first thing ethical is sit down with your student talk to him consult charge for that consultation but sit because this will give you an idea about your student what he is aiming when he's coming to your class it is okay if he's joining in for the first day tell him let me know about yourself what what is the aim you know this is this is very important so always need to consult that with your student and let yourself know what he uh your student is aiming for yeah that is punctuality as a yoga teacher I think you all know what punctuality actually really means but in India sometimes yoga teachers come late by 5 10 15 20 minutes that is not right that is not right right in the yamas and yamas also we need to follow this punctuality if someone is saying I'm meeting you at five o'clock in the morning please be at the door by 4 50. right a 5 minutes 10 minutes early will make no problem but being late is not a good sign because the first yoga Sutra of patanjali says what other yoga anushasanam now the discipline of yoga starts that's the first definition of yoga and how can you not be disciplined understanding that's the reason it is very important that when you are very punctual on all your sessions you your your you know your your value increases my private student when I meet them at five o'clock I'm there by 4 45 waiting for five minutes before that I build ring the bell before that I'm just waiting I can come early by 4 45 but I don't do that because they might be getting ready or something or the other I don't want to enter into their space so five minutes before as yoga teaches I have seen since so many years 99 of the time I'm punctual that has a value for me since last 19 to 20 years I have the same student I have the same student they haven't changed me I will show you my message on mobile they're saying so when you are coming and I told them option I'm there here for one month if you want to hire any yoga teacher you can hire I don't have any problem they said no we are happy that we are having a one month holiday you got it so you as a yoga teacher you have to increase you you have to update upgrade your value how that value comes in on being punctual being polite all the time being on time will affect a lot then when you increase your salary or your per session no one is going to comment you got it I'll talk about it later on okay so punctuality becomes very important as yoga teacher and when I'm saying that you are punctual I am punctual my 300 students know that I am there 5 minutes 10 minutes early but I rarely if there is a genuine reason to be late I accept it other than that you should make it a point to be on time yes please exactly yes yes five ten minutes earlier yeah yeah very true I agree with you you should be five ten minutes early if you really want because you are by the time you come here prepare yourself and like the projector was not working so it took us at least five eight minutes if I was exactly at 3 30 I would have been late and I would have stolen everyone's five five minutes yes definitely no doubt no doubt is that clear punctually let's go a little bit more further consent cards now how does you know what consent card is now what happened is earlier exactly earlier everything was going fine but gradually and slowly some of the yoga teachers started having this bad repetition of you know sexuality issues and all this being you know touch and stuff and everything so sometimes there are genuine yoga teachers who want to correct you but sometimes they are not so it becomes very difficult for yoga teachers if I touch you and I don't know which bubble you are which mental state you are that's the reason consent card or taking the consent of a student comes into picture so as a yoga teacher now I know my students last 15 years so I don't have any problems I can touch we know each other very well but if you are meeting your student for the first time I would highly recommend that have a consent that consent card is very important because at least you know what happens is I so normally in the other Studios that you find they have a card there whether they want to be touched or not it is by the sides of the mat so that is what speaker yes you can do that yeah yeah okay is that clear with this the consent yeah let's go a bit more further now core values let's understand what are the core values arson teacher as I told you don't be only an Ascent teacher just don't see that you know what I enjoy the Asana practice I enjoy the Ashtanga I enjoy the yin yoga I enjoy all the physicalities of yoga but I'm not enjoying the philosophy I'm not enjoying all these things I'm not enjoying the patanjali yoga Sutra the eight limbs of yoga the philosophy that you are don't term yourself as just an awesome teacher because you're just teaching what the asanas okay so see that you read philosophy books get acquainted with the yoga Sutra and see yoga is not only about the body that you do at the end you did stretches and something but if you remember at the pranam I tell you what be aware of your mental state see what is your thought process so if you read philosophy you can understand the Mind otherwise all the time you will be stretch muscle breathing and that's it you will not connect to the mind when you start reading philosophy books you will understand how your mind functions and that's the reason the second suture of what patanjali says when the Mind stops then only you can see your true self so when you are teaching your students asanas and all stuff at the end what is the AIM do they find that the mind has stopped for some time or their mind is still rushing and they are still in the fight and flight situation so that's the reason philosophy you know becomes very important you need to go through philosophies how many of you really don't like philosophy I feel like it's a waste of time like yeah you just love the Asin point of view the stretching the perspiration and then you find philosophy it's very very boring that's natural initial stage that's very natural to happen if you feel that philosophy is really boring I agree with you but you know what happens after few years of teaching might be two three four five years teaching a stage will come we'll say what next I am bored with the same same thing teaching again and again there you will require philosophy there you will add philosophy into your practices okay is that clear with this asan teacher yeah so don't become only an asan teacher become a yoga teacher and for yoga teacher you need to know philosophies okay be passionate about what you do when you teach something be mad about it just enjoy doing it and you will love yoga teaching let me tell you that you know it's like a it's not like a job that you do it's like you're enjoying and teaching and you're being paid for it and that's the fun about being a yoga teacher you know something it's like a hobby that you practice something and while you're practicing and you're teaching you're being paid for it so it's amazing being a passionate teacher plays a very important role have a passion for it what else be clear about your future now being clear means I am doing 200 what is my future should I go for 300 or I just need for my own self practice think about it right if you just want to do a 200 and wind up and do it for yourself practice no doubt but if feel like going ahead once you finish your 200 once you finish your 300 please start teaching if you feel like even if you don't want to earn money let's say you're happy with what you're earning still I will highly recommend you start teaching your to Mom Dad brother enables anyone because when you as I always tell when you start teaching you start learning everything goes more deeper into your brain when you start teaching your students to your family to anyone so that's the reason be clear what you want even if you are not thinking about earning making it a profession still teach because what will happen you did a tiha 200 event back and it's all out as if you feel like I have done nothing I wasted my money for to learn more either go back and join some studio and keep practicing your yoga and then later on start teaching go to different Studios and see how different other yoga teachers are teaching take something from them this is what I do every year I visit ashram I do a 200 over there I said I don't need your certificate I just want to be there I want to listen to what this teacher what Guru is saying what this ashram is there are many gurus in India you have to just go over there and say I want to do a 200 I just want to sit I want to receive what is might be the same might be something new and that's the reason when you keep moving to different studios in your country by different teachers you learn a lot something you might like hey this is a good one this is the bad one I don't like this is not the way to be taught right you learn you learn by other people's mistakes and that's the reason once you do a 200 or 300 go back start teaching it will make a huge difference it will make a huge difference paid or free don't worry about that don't worry about that money is going to come one day just start teaching start teaching because when when I did my post graduation in the field of yoga I was a graphic designer okay now I was being paid well everything was superb in my life but I thought let me do this yoga it's Indian thing and being an Indian I should know what yoga is and I was happy with my graphic designing I was busy with my pagemaker Coral draw and all of this stuff and I was very happy about it yoga came into my life I finished my one year of post graduation in yoga to get the certificate we have to do one month of apprenticeship that means in that school we have to teach the patients there is where when I started teaching I got good response from the students and they said Hey sir you teach very good you know after one month why don't you come to my place and I teach a place it's known as South Mumbai so South Mumbai is one of those richest places where Mukesh Ambani and all those millionaire people stay so one of those called me and said you know why don't you teach at my place I never ever thought that I will start teaching I said okay you know my wife has asthma why don't you come and teach I said okay I'll come I taught for one hour and I did it for one month like this not even expecting why because I was earning good in my graphic designing I was least bothered about that money but after one hour of teaching and after one month passed by the amount that was received by Me was so big that it changed my mind you got it then I said one class is giving me this payment for one hour for 12 hours in a month I'm just giving like alternate Days 12 sessions if this amount is this much and I'm enjoying this sharing learning experiences gradually and slowly gradually and slowly a stage come when I felt that 50 percent of the amount that I am receiving is equivalent to what I'm getting the money in my graphic designing I gradually left it and I was enjoying this lifestyle because for four hours of teaching I have the whole day for me to practice to enjoy myself do whatever that I feel like doing right so that's the reason it's a very good profession if you think because you know what what is the best profession that you're taking care of your health at the same time you're being paid for taking care of your health you're getting it right yeah yes yes initial stage before that when I started I I was waiting for one month and no one was there so I basically took a place on rent the place where I used to live is very far away from the rich people where they stay so I thought why should I go over there one hour Journey so I started at my place where I used to live but because all the people are labor class they travel all the way to Mumbai so no one was Keen of learning yoga so the one month was really drastic like no you can say eight nine month was where I felt difficult but then gradually things change so that's the reason friends be clear what you want in your life okay what else follow the yamas and yamas very important what are the yamas and niyamas yes a yoga teacher you know you need to follow the yamas and yamas these are in the eight limbs of yoga okay let's go a bit more further have you gone through the yamas and yamas right have you gone to this cleanliness okay you might go later on those who are new might go later on no worries about that okay what else steel clients and student this happens a lot for example you know what happens I'll tell you like as a yoga teacher I am teaching here in kashish for example let's take it now I start my own teacher training course and then I'm doing like these guys are from 200 now I'll say hey 200 guys I'm doing a 300. why don't you join me this is not ethical this happens this happens in many places in rishikesh and many places it happens that people start stealing the client of the other people that happens a lot like for example I am traveling here in Mumbai I'm here in Goa I told some of my yoga friends that hey I'm just going out for one month why don't you take that class and might be they do such a way you know I will charge less why don't you learn from me and then it might happen that my friend will steal my client he will charge less something like that happen but let me tell you in so many years of teaching it has never happened because if you are a very good teacher you are emotionally grounded you are strong enough to know what you're teaching this stage will never come in your life what a question what a question yeah okay got it stealing clients was very normal in this field just be aware especially in rishikesh it happens a lot right next is what respect all yoga Styles respect here I have to also learn a lot because I always say I love but I don't love Ashtanga Joy knows it very well so here even I have to learn that there are many styles of yoga let me tell you there is beer yoga I was talking about you really listen and and I said like oh my God what has happened to this world beer yoga I'm so irritating then one day I thought thinking I started thinking as to Bear yoga it can be good there would be many people who drink beer but they don't do yoga right now it might happen that I started a beer yoga those drunkards that they had never done yoga before they will say okay while do yoga I can drink beer amazing now think about there were 50 people who came into a beer yoga class let's take 10 people said hey I'm enjoying the beer as well as the yoga and I want to continue a stage will come that these people can change right and it can also happen that these people can be more drunkards we never know but let's take the positive side of it if I am doing a beer yoga and people are coming there might be some who understands philosophy listens to me every time you know good talks might happen that some of those students will transit to being a pure Yogi then came this new concert I was like surprised naked yoga right like naked yoga oh my God how can they do naked you guys like oh my God what is this you know it's like then I once again said it's you know what it's this the way we think that is what so I started thinking even in in rishikesh even in allahabad in Banaras you go there are many Naga Babas Naga Babas are those Saints and gurus who always naked in Jainism there are gurus who always naked that keep traveling naked no problem so I said your mind if you know if every day you seem the same person again again and are doing the asanas a stage come it really doesn't bothers to you it becomes like okay that's natural why not you can have a better alignment so why not you know good balance right so it is it doesn't really matter any style of hero just respect all style the only thing is the way you think about a style is different right like I I love the other styles some Styles I don't like doesn't means I hate but I don't like like I was telling joy I love all these Styles but I don't know I like Ashtanga that's okay you don't like there are many people who like a stronger that's fine love them got it there are many become yoga I don't like there are many people who like hot yoga because when you're doing in the hot climate this your muscles and ligaments special ligaments and tendons gets more flexible people have got great results irrelevant a frame where the source is coming is not good right they really matter doesn't matter the guru might not be that great but the style is good accept it yeah fine so respect all yoga Styles whether it is beer yoga goat yoga naked yoga and what else God knows what is about to come you know dog yoga God knows what but puppy yoga and many styles and your power yoga came in so when Power Yoga came in we said like oh God what is Power Yoga we only learned what yoga this is a New Concept then later we realize oh Power Yoga is nothing is Ashtanga Yoga modified into something and it became Power Yoga so everything starts from hutter then you modify the way you want it okay is that clear with this core values let's go a little bit more further now as a yoga teacher I will highly recommend you to learn different styles don't just stick to only one style got it as a yoga teacher if you are learning go for Hatha get into Vinyasa get into Ashtanga get into all different variations because tomorrow if some studio is hiring you you need to know at least some of the Styles and you know you know if you go to a teacher's training course it is mostly said that okay a teacher should know the Yang style of yoga and the yin style of yoga what is the Yang style of yoga about it Ashtanga Vinyasa these are Yang style of yoga right when you go to a resort also people expect you to do a Yang style of yoga where you're perspiring you're doing some activity so definitely you should know something that is active style of yoga and then you should also know something that is passive that is or something like that so what happens someone hires you at least they can hire you for mornings and it Resort what happens they will hire a morning they will ask you to do a morning class and an evening class and that's the reason all different styles of yoga if you can learn it's better now you can as a teacher have a workshop on pranayama if you see today's morning class and every morning class that we do pranayama you can design your own Workshop only on pranayam you can call it with a better word is breath work this is the new term being used breath work it's all nothing it's all these breathing practices termed as pranayama but the problem is what when you use healing breath breath work and all those stuff it is more sellable right so as a yoga teacher you can go depth in pranayama and you can have your small short Workshop might be an hour of workshops only on pranayam like belly breathing chest breathing you know all yogic breathing get deeper into it what is next meditation perfect go into it can I teach meditation for someone to teach meditation for someone the first thing is I should meditate you know if you think you cannot sit for any or do all the time doing like this and this don't do it because I see here and there also when you're doing meditation some people like and nothing is there but sometimes still and sometimes it is there a mosquito yeah yeah exactly sometimes not all the time and you see they're busy like doing this and then you're looking people whether they are doing it right or not and then you say everyone is doing it let me also do it let me be serious as a meditation as a teacher you really need to sit quietly make a habit pattern of two minutes to sit quietly start with two minutes then make three minutes then make for gradually improve slowly and strategically you will train your nervous system to relax in one day on the first they ask you to meditate for one hour it is it is difficult because you never sat for your bodies like all the time trying to scratch something as if something is biting you all the time you need to if you're on the path otherwise what is going to happen in meditation would be out of your list because you don't like it you will never teach it simple as that and that is not going to work Asana is just a ladder the next step is what pranayama meditation you have to move further don't stick to only Asana otherwise you'll be only called as a Ascent teacher and you will be only physically connected with your students at OK awesome not mentally they will not respect you because this teach this teacher Only Knows Asana it doesn't knows anything about the Mind matter do you understand me so that's the reason as a yoga teacher you need to get into a deeper aspect of it what else philosophy I told you about that philosophy becomes very important as yoga teacher yoga therapy so what comes next is like you know as you start teaching you did a 200 most of the time when you people will come for 200 they will ask for a fitness class you know Fitness class but as you go further people are coming mostly with therapy issues mostly with back pain asthma and as a yoga teacher you need to really decide whether I want to continue with the fitness class or do I want to get to the stream of yoga therapy and I'll tell you a stage will come in your life that you feel enough of Fitness let me deal with people with real issues in their life might be osteoarthritis or something or the other any emotional trauma depression something or the other this yoga therapy so as a yoga teacher you really need to decide am I want to be a Fitness yoga teacher or really I want to get into the yoga therapy where I'm trying to heal people at least give them better relaxation so this is One Yoga therapy thank you few minutes left okay we'll do that I was just checking the time sometimes I flow I don't realize it okay now we finish the Ethics now let's come to Money Matters How Will I okay right now we come to places where money plays a very important role so I know I am I have certified myself as a 200 now I go back no I need to teach also well you can do also for yourself practice job over but if your future you want to really go ahead and make it as a profession there are few things that you need to know let's go with that okay so how to become a successful yoga career make a successful yoga career why I am saying this because I have I have studied from down and today what I am I really enjoy when I see myself when I was down there and I feel very happy about it I have gone through the ups and downs and that's the reason I feel I would the best person to share because I've seen all the ups and downs there was a time three o'clock in the morning I used to go to the newspapers the people who arrange the newspapers if you ever seen them so I go there I take my flyer and place it in the newspaper so that people can know me so in India especially in Mumbai early in the morning if you have ever traveled you find newspaper Wala who give papers to every home you can print a flyer place it breaks a thousand rupees uh 600 rupees for thousand flyers and you can advertise yourself you got an idea you can try that okay let's go a bit more further business methodology let's go a bit more further to understand that okay now first of all as I told you you need to decide what is the aim of yoga in your life what is that do you want to become a teacher or do you want to become an entrepreneur what does these two decide suppose if I want to become a teacher when I want to live my life peacefully I don't want to take stress in my life I enjoy teaching and I prefer to be a teacher I don't want to get into all these issues of how many students are coming I have to you know take care of the studio the fans and stuff it's a headache I just say to the studio guy hey I'm not keen with your percentage and stuff just give me me my monthly salary or per session salary I am done with it a teacher who is not bothered about anything else except teaching so that is being a yoga teacher what is entrepreneur being a yoga teacher I want to get into the other stuff of hiring a place marketing advertising and stuff like for example I'll give you one thing I'll give you my example here I have an opportunity to register myself on yoga Alliance register a school and I can start my own school also and since last 23 years of teaching I can buy a studio I can start teaching in a studio I have never done that why the only reason is if you get into all these stuff of hiring a studio doing all this stuff you will not enjoy your teaching you get exactly you get poisoned because every time you think oh my God today there are only five students start calculating you are teaching the Asana oh I cannot pay the monthly rent this time some you know like this is the the mind will be continuously occupied with that so you really need to decide exactly yes does it make sense to you all on in the field of yoga you need to really decide do I want to become a yoga teacher where you really want to enjoy your life or you want to become an entrepreneur taking the headache of everything no doubt you will earn more money than the yoga teacher no doubt but you will burn yourself also so you have to really decide that do I really want to become a yoga teacher or do I only want to start like how pratik ji is doing he's managing all the stuff I say come hire me for one month I teach and I go back this is what I do with all I'm a freelancer I am I don't have any of my school schools call me they say hey ritesh come to arambol I have one month of teacher training course 300 okay let me know the syllabus I am there they are taking care of my flights accommodation food everything I go there for one month I teach tata bye bye Namaste I go back right I am least bothered about harmonies to let him earn earn crudes I it doesn't matter to me I want my small amount I am I'm happy with that this is what life is now if you really want to earn more money then you just start working okay where I have to hide the place this this is a lot of work it is not an easy job to do but now what is your aim in life earn more money or earn a peaceful enjoy your peaceful life so this is what you need to decide thank you yeah yeah you should also Empower ourselves you know so there is one person there are people who are better to do that job equip the better to do each other we are not equipped and if you try to equip ourselves I have seen many of my friends who have taken yoga studios and spaces and they have gone in losses they have gone in lawsuit it's the best thing is just ask pratik yeah yeah what else anyhow coming next is now as a yoga teacher if you think of either starting an entrepreneur your school or you start to become a yoga teacher yoga Alliance now what certification you are getting okay everyone be here together okay Arena be here student registration yoga lines now do you really need to understand it is not a compulsory one that you need to register yourself in a yoga Alliance but the benefit is when you start adding your hours of teaching every day that you're teaching in your area might be four hours a day three hours a day you can add on this there is a form and whenever you keep adding those r's these hours will pile up into one thousand hours two thousand or something like this I'll let you know what it is so basically do I really need to register not really but as a yoga teacher I do register because schools hire me they ask for my yoga lines registration number and that's the reason every year I pay roughly 7500 to them but that's not wrong because I get that money easily so not a compulsion but I will highly recommend because this is a place where you can put all your house that I taught private classes or group classes or something okay okay so these are something you know like what it is a application fee something 50 renewable is 65 yes this is what it is so yeah fifty dollars I believe that's what the amount is yeah fifty dollars now they might have increased it earlier it was fifty dollars yes it was per year yeah then you put your name and everything and that you get your e you get your ryt 200 hours registered yoga teacher you have your profile over there that hey I am so and so I have been practicing this is my style I'm doing it and stuff you can put your images over there and everything that shows that you are a yoga teacher yes yes it will yeah it will get you over there it's important I have seen that people do ask me yeah okay 500 hours of less than 500 is what I was talking the other day about with 200 hours it's even dangerous to go there and say I'm not geography transcribe and you are just speaking about the money after the course I'm going to do it no no it's it okay okay come back let's come back to what I'm talking about here okay this is what it is this is your first okay I said listen okay this is what it is okay graduation this is what you get ryt 200 so you once you finish your 200 you get this thing as graduate in r y t 200. now you go a little bit more further here in this journey you keep adding your hours that okay I did this much oh you write in one month and everything this is where you put your ass in the yoga lines okay this is what the documents are you get the membership once you pay that right then you apply for it then only you get you are ryt but credential only happens when you actually apply for it right then what else you did that you your ryt 200. yeah I mean I mean say if you want to have a membership then you have to actually pay for it it is not compulsory but later on it gives you a credential it gives you a credibility that's the only reason if you're only doing for yourself practice you don't ever need it you don't ever need it okay yeah sorry can you yes yes you can do that you don't have to do it right away might be after six months or something or the other what you have to do is once you send a mail a mail is send it to kashish yoga they will confirm yes this teacher has certified from our school then it confirms and then it's a process that happens yeah it's a process that happens okay then pursue learning as a yoga student and teacher that gives you a professional outlook here and your so this is now this is mine it's very small okay but this is what it is you finish your ryt 200 you get your membership you keep moving forward forward keep adding all those things and as you keep adding the R's on the journey you will get a e r y t 500 sorry 200 so you wear ryt 200 that is a registered yoga teacher but after adding in ours automatically after might be thousand hours you are you get a e r y t that is experience registered yoga teacher okay let's go a bit more further to understand that [Music] you can just put in 5-10 hours in a day or in a month you sit and just add up those hours it all depends no one is going to check but remember once again Satya truthfulness comes here yamas right as a yoga teacher Okay now what's that here you get your 1000 hours across two or more years then you get your ER Y2 so when you have to get your e r y t it is across two years or more years to get that 1000 hours once you get that 1000 hours you are e r y t 200. experience registered yoga teacher okay then you go a bit more further now your journey can stop here you say I'm done with I wanted to know yoga I have done it it is for my self practice leave it job done you don't need to but if you want to go more ahead then you're doing your 300 due to 200 you did 300 so might be after some time you feel like yeah I am getting more deeper I want to now learn more deeper understand more what is Yoga then comes your 300 right you did a 300 now you did ryt 200 you did an Roi it's 300 you automatically get a ryt 500 that means now those who are doing 300 will be called as ryd 500. yeah yeah fine you got it so those who are doing R YT 300 it so you don't have to say that I have to do ryd 500 separately no once you do a ryt 200 you are doing roid 300 automatically you are said now you are roid 500 registered yoga teacher 500 there is no separate uh teachers training in total for 500 but what they will do they will sell it as ryd 500 by clubbing 200 and 300 together so some schools will do it for two months or two and a half months and they will Club the 200 and 300s together got it something like this they that's that's the way they do it also okay teach for more than two other two thousand hours four or more years so definitely four plus years then only it is possible okay then you become a e r y t 500. now remember all these things are just for your credibility nothing more than that it even after getting all these things there are teachers who really don't Excel well in their life you understand that this is thus a credibility that you need to know yeah so this is the practice when you do the practice then you get the ER YT 500 yes yes exactly exactly okay now you get into this become a lead trainer do all this sort of things then other things that you can get is a yacp what is yacp now let me tell you became a erity 500 once you become a erity 500 the yoga Alliance gives you the right to issue certificate for short courses of 20 hours 30 hours 50 hours this is way now tomorrow after being a erity 500 you can tell hey I am conducting a workshop on pranayam for 25 hours join in and then you can issue a certificate to your students in the name of your whatever name you have in your school so yoga Alliance give you that right to issue the certificate to your student 30 years shorter 30 hours 40 hours 50 hours you get that right but before that you have to put what you are if you are making a workshop on pranayama or ashtang or whatever you have to update that program on yoga lens yoga Lance approves it and they says yeah you can do that and then those who have done 200 who does who goes into your Workshop they get added benefit of 20 hours so we call it continued education program so when you are doing any of those erity 500 teachers are doing some of the short courses and you are a r y t you are a registered yoga teacher 200 you get that are added into your teaching got it so that's what it is a y a c p okay then the last one that comes is r y registered prenatal yoga teacher okay if you want to get prenatal yoga our pregnancy and stuff what is the next one r c y t registered children yoga teacher okay registered to children now if you feel like I am a person who loves to teach children and stuff and I'm that you know person who can make nice jokes and stuff and everything then RC white is for you so this is what the step you can go in yoga lands also got it remember it is not please no no it is it no it it can be later on if you want to do it like I I'm not keen in doing it I'm but I am a ycp sorry repeat no you cannot no you you have to only do it once you finish your erity 500 I got it because yeah yeah no you can do it but you cannot give see the problem is there are many people who are not yoga line certificate they are still teaching children right there are many teachers who are not yoga lands but they are still teaching prenatal it is not in that case in case where you are actually going for a job where you applying for a prenatal the studio or the owner might ask what are your credentials there is where you have to show there are many teachers who are not yoga Alliance like for many years I was not yoga lines teacher but still I was teaching you got it the problem comes when you're going to Bali and all these places UK Canada all these places where people do ask for yoga lion certification there the problem comes if you have a friend who has opened your studio open the studio and is hiring you he doesn't need your yoga lens he knows you got it but some issues come in your place where someone has got injured and stuff therefore you need that certification like otherwise someone would say you are not certified and you are teaching us I can sue you you understand this comes a lot in your country in our country doesn't yes please sorry yes no no insured no you're not insured no no that is separately you are not insured you have to insure yourself separately this is only to give you credential that yes yoga Alliance approves you as a yoga teacher that's it nothing else nothing else than that and that's a good business and yeah going back a bit more further yeah open school yes please yes no no I I'll come to that yeah no I know now what happens is you know this is a it's a good story good question now she's talking about ayush Ministry Now understand this when yoga was happening in India there was no body every school was giving their own certificate like shivananda he was giving his own certificate Kevin Santa Cruz yoga Institute you take about Ashtanga Yoga Yoga all these schools were giving different different certificates okay and yoga Alliance came much more by 10 15 years yoga lands came so yoga Alliance became online so popular that everyone said oh I want a yoga land certificate recently eight nine or might be 10 years back when modiji came he started our prime minister and came he started with okay ayush Ministry now what happened ayush Ministry like yoga Lions ayush Ministry is also a board where they certify Indian and foreign yoga teachers but the problem is now they have recently started ayush ministry and I'm also teaching to the students of ayush ministry so here we have yoga Alliance that was very popular online everyone knows that okay yoga Alliance is very popular India ayush Ministry is stepping up so a stage might come that ayush Ministry would be so popular that people will not really approve but it will take a long time so ayush Ministry is going forward but it will take some same time you got it so there are many teachers who are doing ice Ministry I've taught some of them also but the problem is very rare if I go to some Bali country and I say ayush managed to certify it no one will have accepted but if I say I'm yoga land certificate they will agree although it has come from India but that is what the you know problem is understand the Indian government took some time to get their Association together use School you school all come together let's make a questionnaire let's make a syllabus so every teacher every student in India who wants to get certified we will give them together certificates all the gurus of India came together and they designed this ayush ministry where they started with you know certification programs but it came recently got it so we have two boards one is the ayush ministry board and we have yoga lines then these there are there are two yoga alliances also there are many associations but yoga Lance has just come on the top nothing else okay so now opening a school you know as a yoga teacher if you feel that you really want to open a school you it is a lot of work to be done you have to apply a syllabus send it to the yoga Alliance yoga Alliance will approve it it's a lot of a headache if you really want to start your school so but you can take some support of school that is already running and get an idea I will highly recommend if you want to become a yoga teacher goat and don't go into these cool things it's it's a lot of job it's a lot of job enjoy being a yoga teacher but if you want to ever open a school there are particular amount that you have to pay so if a school can be rois 200 and a school can be registered yoga School 300 depending if you are thinking of opening a school of 200 you have to pay different charges if you're opening a school of 300 you have to pay different charges so roughly I believe total cost is 640 dollars this is what might be eight nine months this cost is if you want to really open your school and register your school you have to pay 640 including the syllabus that you have to design and send them and then they will approve it you got it then you are eligible to you know start your own School renewal fees to 40 annually so every year you have to pay an annual fee whether you earn a lot not it doesn't matter to them you have to pay that amount renewal fees okay location listing what is location listing suppose I say you know I'm opening a school in Bali and our next School in Australia I have next School in UK so every location changing that I do I have to pay 50 dollars you really need to decide whether you want to open a yoga school or not okay is it fine now I think we have others other topics where I will cover we have a good regular job and stuff I will talk about it later on it's already 4 30 yeah comes it now tell me any questions with this any questions with what I have been talking about does it make sense yeah yes it is it is it is and they are earning like anything yeah exactly exactly a lot lot and they're doing nothing [Laughter] it's a franchise exactly it's a business yeah is all clear with that yeah any questions fine come let's sit in a cross-like position let's recite the own car I think you're such an amazing thank you I feel so nice okay come Hello darling let's take the sitting position come keep your spine straight chin talk a gentle smile neck and shoulders relaxed engage that core slightly and just observe your breath