The Start & Brick Walls
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something." Randy Pausche, The Last Lecture In my journey to enrolling in yoga teacher training (YTT) I felt surrounded by brick walls. I knew about a year and a half ago as I started getting back into yoga that I wanted to eventually become a certified yoga teacher. I loved the way yoga connected me with my body and made me feel more alive. I could see what a great therapeutic tool yoga would be to me in my future work as a therapist, especially in working with children with autism. I also knew that while there were a million yoga teacher programs all over the world I wanted to train at Bodhi Yoga because of it's off-the-beaten-path-yet-still-grounded-in-truth approach. In researching more about yoga teacher training I ran into my first brick wall: the program (as with most YTT programs) was nearly $3,...