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with information that you aren’t able to

process’. And these words of wisdom popped

up from my memory bank in various life

situations after the course.

‘Shanti, Shanti,’ as they say in India. It’s the

Western mind that tells you, ‘the more, the

better.’ But it’s not true. The greedy mind may

not appreciate the course straightaway. But let

some time pass to see whether it was worth it

or not.

We need a certain degree of maturity to

appreciate simplicity. We all think that we

know what we came for: we came to learn

Anatomy, and Philosophy, and the Teaching

techniques. But in truth, we don’t know what

we’ll get.

It’s not the information that will transform our

lives after the course. It’s the authentic

experience we get while taking the course, it’s

when we learn not to speed up things, but

really observe and feel.

One more thing you should know is that

frankly speaking, Anatomy isn’t the strongest

subject on yoga teacher training courses in

India. They pay a lot of attention to the system