如何选择瑜伽教练培训的十条建议

10 Commandments of Finding The Right Yoga Teacher Training

——Shakti Mhi

关于如何选择瑜伽教师培训的十条劝诫

　1. Find a Spiritual Teacher.

　　选择一个灵性的教师

Avoid taking training from teachers that emphasize their teaching on the physical aspects of yoga only. It is important to have a teacher who can give you a full understanding of the spiritual (as opposed to religious) aspects of yoga. The teacher should not be a scholar who knows his/her information from reading books and taking workshops. The teacher’s teaching must arise from direct experience. Such a teacher will be able to deal with all of the spiritual concerns that the student may have, with no hesitation.

不要从那些只强调身体层面的瑜伽教师那里接受培训。去找一个能向你传授瑜伽完整的灵性意义(但不是宗教)的教师，这点非常重要。那个教师也不应该是一个只会引经据典的书斋里的学者。教师所传授的应该来自他本人直接的体验。这样的教 师才能面对学生有可能遇见的所有灵性的问题，而不是支吾其词。

2. Make sure to experience direct transmission.要得到直接的'传递

Do not settle for a teacher training run by novice teachers, who show the teachings of their master from a DVD. Do not settle for the said "master" to only occasionally appear in the course. Every student in the course needs to have direct contact and experience with the spiritual teacher, as the transmission of the knowledge and wisdom often happens on the energy level.

不要接受那些没有经验的教师的培训，他们会把自己追随的大师的DVD放给你看。也不要因为听说某个大师会“偶尔出现”在培训的课程中而受吸引。每个学生都应该和一个灵性的教师有直接的接触和体验，因为知识和智慧往往是在能量层面传递的。

　3. Bigger is not better.

　　教师培训并不是人越多越好

Often you see teacher training with 60 to 200 students in a course.

我们经常看到某些教师培训会有60～200人。

In an intense 200h course, as a result of the intense practice, students often go through physical, mental, emotional and spiritual crisis and may face multiple challenges. As a result of being in a large impersonal course, the student and their needs get lost in the crowd.

在一个强度很大的200小时培训中，学生经常会经历生理的、头脑的、情绪的和灵性方面的危机并同时面对诸多的挑战。在一个人数众多、缺乏个人关注的培训中，学生和他们的个人需求都无法得到满足。

　4. Avoid religions, cults and worship.

　　避开宗教、信众和崇拜

Avoid trainings with even a hint of worshipping the spiritual teacher. Yoga practice is a process to transform the novice to become a free master and not to become a sheep, following without knowing.

避开那些暗示你去崇拜那个灵性教师的培训。瑜伽练习是一个把初习者转变成解脱的大师的过程，而不是把你培养成人云亦云的绵羊。

　5. Practical teaching.

　　要练习如何授课

Make sure there is plenty of actual hands-on teaching experience for you during the course so you don’t end up with theoretical knowledge but are unprepared to actually teach. Knowing the asanas (yoga postures) inside and out won’t make you know how to teach them. Yoga teacher training is not a yoga boot camp of doing the asanas all day. You need to learn communication, the psychology of the mind, body language, how to correct by using hands-on techniques, and how to give mental and energetic support to your students in the future.

确保培训中会安排充分的实际教学操作和练习，这样在结束时你不是光有空洞的理 论知识，但对于如何实际授课却一愁莫展。即便你了解了所有体式的细节，仍然不等于你知道如何去教授它们。瑜伽教师培训不应该是一个整天练习体式的集训营。 你需要学习如何交流、心理学、如何解读肢体语言，如何亲手去纠正，如何在将来给你的学生精神和能量上的支持。

　　6. Yoga is not Gymnastics.

　　瑜伽不是体操

Remember that 90% of your students out there are beginners! Most of the people in the West are dealing with physical limitations and health conditions. Avoid vigorous acrobatic styles of yoga. Choose a style of yoga that can walk beginners safely into the practice. Otherwise you will join the endless number of yoga instructors who make the students feel (after their first class) that they are not flexible enough to practice yoga.

别忘了百分之九十的学生是初习者!在西方很多人身体有各种局限和健康问题。避开那些强烈的有氧操式的瑜伽。选择学习一种能让初习者安全地进入练习的风格。否则你将成为那些数不胜数的瑜伽教练的一员——学生一上完他们的第一堂课就下结论说自己太僵硬了，不适合练习瑜伽。

　7. Restrict yoga facility.

　　不要依赖瑜伽设施和工具

Avoid styles that constrict you and your students to a specific teaching facility environment (hot rooms or facilities with too many yoga gadgets). The essence of yoga practice is to be able to conduct it in any place and at any time. Your students should be able to take the teaching you convey and practice on their own anywhere without dependency on a facility.

避开那些只有在特定教学设施(热的房间或过多的瑜伽辅助物品)条件下才能练习的瑜伽风格。瑜伽练习的本质是应该能随时随地地进行。你的学生应该在接受了你所传递的教导后，能够自己在任何地方练习，而不是得依赖某些设施。

　8. New-age yoga.

　　不要落入“新世纪”瑜伽的迷雾

Be careful of flakiness and new-age non sense.

小心所有那些有关“新世纪”的鱼龙混杂的学说。

Knowledge of energy and the chakras is powerful, but there is much more to the yoga practice than just the chakras.

有关能量和气轮的知识是很有力量的，但在气轮以外瑜伽还有很多其他内容。

　9. Connection with the teacher after course is done.

　　在培训结束和教师继续保持连接

Make sure that the teacher will be available to you to answer questions after the course has ended and to guide you in your first steps of your teaching if needed. You should be able to find spiritual support from your teacher outside the course as your practice must continue after your certification.

确保在培训结束后你仍然有机会向教师提问，如果需要的话甚至能帮助你踏上开始教课的道路。你应该能够在培训以后继续从你的教师那里得到灵性的支持，即便你已经有了证书。

10. The power of transformation.

　　转变的力量

Let your heart, not only your mind and wallet, be involved in the search for the right teacher and teaching. Avoid being influenced by trends and deals. The teacher is the vehicle for the teaching that may resonate in you forever.

要用你的心，而不是光用你的头脑和钱包来决定应该选择什么样的教师和什么样的培训。不要受潮流和生意经的影响。教师是传递瑜伽教导的工具，而那种教导也许会影响你的一生。

True teachers will expand your capacity to receive wisdom that arises from beyond your programmed mind.

真正的教师会扩展你接纳智慧的能力，那种智慧只能来自超越你头脑的羁绊。