Starting the Winter Season With An.......OM????? Part II

 

You've already guessed the answer, so I won't hold you in suspense.  YES! I met my practice challenge, messy as it was!  So on November 1, the reward.  I paid the tuition fee and enrolled in the 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification course with Online Yoga School.

 

  I immediately went through the Welcome modules to see what I was getting in to.  It's ON! 

  Here's the curriculum: 

• Yoga Philosophy
• Yoga History
• About the Yoga Teacher
• Anatomy
• Understanding the Body
• The Esoteric Body
• Meditation
• Chants & Pranayama
• Sanskrit
• Learning Bodies 
• Asanas
• Sequencing
• Introduction to Ayurveda
• Preventing Injuries
• Chair & Restorative Yoga
• Teaching Methodology
• Adjustments
• Yoga as a Business

Looks pretty complete, doesn't it?  It is!

Reasonable cost, thorough curriculum, good reviews.  Why else did I choose this school?  There's no time limit on completion. You can do the lessons in any order. The quizzes are open book.  It's set up for success, in that though there's plenty of work, if you do the work you'll pass.  The final exam can be any sort of Yoga lesson-live, Zoom, one person, a class, etc; or a written exam.    

I've started the lessons, doing them on the days & times when in the past I'd be swimming.  The lessons are mostly audio with a slide-show type video. They're bite-sized; the longest so far has been about 15 minutes.  "Yoga Philosophy" is the first module, so I started there.  It includes familiar and unfamiliar concepts, identified with their Sanskrit names.  Some straight-up memorization going on.  I discovered it's possible to overdo on Sanskrit, so while I'm setting up some flash cards and giving it time to absorb, I started "You: The Yoga Teacher." 

While I thought there might be an element of "you get what you pay for", I'm finding the owner/instructor, Steph, to be genuine and realistic.  She clearly knows what she's talking about, and loves talking about it.  Included in the curriculum are many webinars, further expanding the content of the lessons.  Steph herself is available by e-mail and phone.  Because it's self-paced, I can easily skip around when I get overwhelmed with Sanskrit, or decide it's time to start learning some of the Asanas, or...whatever! On the technical side, it is very user friendly. 

Am I pleased?  This school is EXACTLY what I hoped.  It will teach me Yoga from A-Z and expand my knowledge and practice.  The timing, both the winter season and where I am in my yoga development, couldn't be better.   Yes, I'm going to work for it.  And yes,