| Do you think the high cost of becoming a Yoga | | | | need as much hands on help or who has a local Yoga |
| Teacher is too far out of reach? Will you have to | | | | teacher for guidance. |
| sacrifice your family's life savings to become a Yoga | | | | He continued the conversation to ask me about |
| instructor? How will you be able to justify the time off | | | | technical support, and I explained that we handle it by |
| from work needed to gain your Yoga certification? | | | | Email, over the phone, and some interns stop by for |
| There are cost-effective, and less expensive solutions, | | | | our Yoga teacher workshops. We have had Yoga |
| to learn to teach Yoga by becoming a certified Yoga | | | | teacher trainees visit us from California and Great |
| instructor, without the cost of an "arm and a leg." | | | | Britain to attend a workshop. By the sound of his |
| Recently, I was talking to an intern from an outside | | | | voice, he seemed depressed, and I asked him, "What |
| Yoga Teacher Training program, which had paid nearly | | | | is wrong?" |
| $10,000.00 for on-site training, on an exclusive tropical | | | | He told me that he hadn't been taught anything about |
| island. He was upset, since he had borrowed tuition | | | | the marketing involved in the Yoga business or about |
| costs from his parents, and possibly sacrificed his job, | | | | business in general. He felt it would take a long time to |
| in order to become a certified Hatha Yoga Teacher. | | | | pay his parents back and didn't know if his job would |
| He visited my web site for a Yoga teacher | | | | still be available to him when he gets back home. |
| correspondence course and discovered my course | | | | Then, I explained that we have Yoga marketing and |
| was a fraction of the cost he and his family paid. He | | | | business tools in our standard course and as a |
| asked me how this is possible. I explained that we do | | | | separate course for experienced Yoga teachers. I |
| not need to feed, house, or supply hundreds of Yoga | | | | invited him to come to a Yoga marketing workshop |
| interns. On top of that, there are no transportation | | | | when he gets back to the States, and, we both, made |
| costs to be concerned with, when using a Yoga home | | | | a new friend. |
| study course. The only cost is for materials, tutoring, | | | | We all feel a "calling" to do work that gives us |
| and Yoga teacher certification. | | | | satisfaction. It helps to have a passion about our work |
| Further, I explained that to be trained in a face-to-face | | | | and to know that you are helping others along the |
| setting, by a Master Yoga Teacher, is more expensive | | | | way. This is one of the many benefits of teaching |
| due to the "hands on" time spent with his teacher. | | | | Yoga, but I advise you to research the cost of Yoga |
| After all, we have an onsite Yoga Teacher program | | | | instructor education, and to be careful not to put |
| that is more expensive than our correspondence | | | | yourself too far in debt. Otherwise, your passion for |
| course. | | | | Yoga could turn into a financial worry - well into the |
| Time spent learning Yoga from a Master Teacher, or | | | | future. This would make it difficult to teach the benefits |
| a Guru, is a valuable service. Our course is designed | | | | of Yoga to your students, while you are stressed out |
| for an experienced Yoga practitioner who doesn't | | | | over your bills. |