As yoga teachers, we are tasked with the job of leading others through their own specific journey toward inner peace and enlightenment. If we think about it, this is a huge responsibility! It can be scary to heed the inner call to inspire, make a difference, or to be a leader. But at Blue Osa, we believe that training for leadership is essential to your journey, which is exactly what we offer during our 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training.
We can help you be a leader at many levels so you can be a conduit for change within yourself, your students, your community, and the world at large! Here’s how:
The Secret to Becoming a Yoga Leader: Blue Osa’s 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
Connect With Your Higher Purpose
What makes a good leader? Is it empathy? Kindness? Courage? Motivation? Your 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training will help you hone these skills and more.
Effective leaders have the power of self-awareness. In our beautiful, peaceful and supportive environment, you’ll learn to reflect on your strengths, weaknesses, habits, beliefs, emotions, and values in order to ground yourself in authenticity. You’ll leave your Yoga Teacher Training with confidence and clarity to carry your individual message to the world.
It takes a lot of ongoing practice to step into the role of leadership! This training aims to ignite transformation within serious students of yoga, teachers and aspiring teachers. The best thing you can do for yourself and others is to immerse into your practice, find your balance, and remember your purpose so you can return to the “real” world with confidence and inspiration.
Self- care is the first step in empowering yourself to care for and lead others. During your stay at Blue Osa, you’ll begin to feel physically, spiritually and emotionally stronger so you can teach from the solid seat of your soul.
Not only will you strengthen your practice on the mat, but you will learn what it truly means to live your yoga in a deeper way, off the mat. When you learn to do this, the rest will follow! Your journey will come into focus, and you will expose the potential of all that yoga can be in your life and the lives of others!
Lead Your Students
One of the most powerful things about our 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training is that it affords you the opportunity to witness growth within yourself and within your fellow trainees. Seeing how others learn and work through their individual stories grows your capacity for empathy and patience, which are invaluable skills for a teacher, and a leader, to have.
When you learn the tools to work through your own samskaras, you will be more effective at leading others through the same process. This eye-opening experience will allow you to be a strong influence on your students’ growth to find the divine flow within themselves. Empower yourself, and you can empower others!
Along with these more subtle skills, Blue Osa’s 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training will help you refine your classroom skills, give you more confidence in public speaking, and teach you to be a better communicator. Through fire rituals, listening circles, and supporting your fellow trainees during their time of growth and learning, you will grow as an individual and as a member of a tight-knit group. All this culminates within you as empathy, humility, and patience that will positively affect your students and community.
Lead Your Community
Being a yoga leader means widening your scope. First, it’s you and your mat. Next, it’s your individual students. During your 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, you’ll be challenged to expand your reach to your community and help it grow as well.
At Blue Osa, we encourage everyone to work as a team, not only in the classroom setting, but also for our resort and our local community. You’ll have opportunities to practice seva, or the art of selfless service, by helping our staff in the kitchen, reaching out to teach yoga to members of the community, or even volunteering locally after your training is complete. Service is an important part of living a yogic lifestyle, and can also help you see how coming together and supporting each other is important for everyone.
Lead your community to grow. Fuel your desire to teach more. Maybe you want to offer community yoga in the park. Maybe you want to organize a peace-centric group in your hometown. Maybe you want to host your own yoga retreat. Maybe you want to open your own center for yoga or meditation. Entrepreneurs are leaders in every community- after your 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, you will have the ability to affect real change and growth in your hometown!
Being fully immersed in a yogic lifestyle can help you see how to bring its benefits to your community and the world at large!
Lead Your World!
As yogis and teachers, we have a responsibility to participate in the global conversation about peace and togetherness. In order to do this effectively, we must learn and practice leadership at every level. We need to embody these skills to help spread our message.
The best way to do this is to seek our leadership skills out, be intentional with them, and expand them. Our inspirational 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training will help you do just that. Not only will you tap into the global yoga community through your fellow trainees, but you’ll also learn how to be a citizen of the world through the ancient teachings of yoga and its lineages. Global consciousness is important, and you can learn to tap into, be a part of, and influence it!
The benefits of taking an immersive 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training are innumerable. If you want to courageously step into the role of teacher and yoga leader, Blue Osa is the perfect place for you to do so. Give yourself the gift of growth, compassion, resilience, motivation, and clarity so you can hone in on your message and carry it to every level of life. From your mat to your globe, this training will empower you to leave your mark on this world, and to help be a driving force behind making it a better place!
About the author:
Casey Siemasko is a content marketing consultant, travel blogger, and wandering yogi. An entrepreneur at heart, she is the co-founder of the award-winning travel blog A Cruising Couple. Besides yoga and travel, she enjoys wine tastings, being outdoors and taking on new hobbies. Follow Casey on LinkedIn and Google+.
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