300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

I feel so lucky to have completed my 300-hour YTT at Centered City Yoga with Rachel Cieslewicz. This program helped me to find a deeper understanding of the practice and confidence as a teacher. And of course the community I have joined is unmatched.

Over the past seven months I have learned more about myself through the limbs of yoga and gained so many more tools for myself and my students. I have an expanded set of pranayama practices, mudras, mantras, chanting, and imagery that has helped me be more creative in my classes as well as more able to address specific questions and concerns. The main reason that I chose to pursue this training is that I felt unable to answer many of the questions my students has after an asana class and I felt I could give them more support. Now, I feel confidence offering physical assists, changing my classes in the moment to fit student needs, and offering advice for home practices that are specific to each student.

For my project, I chose to build a two-hour class module around the Annamaya Kosha using movement and imagery to experience each of the Ayurvedic elements in our bodies and how they are connected to the world we live in. Many of those who participated in the module expressed that they felt more aware of the relationship between their bodies and the world, less judgmental of their bodies, and left with a greater embodied understanding of what the Koshas are and how they relate to our practice.