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Dru third page.indd 2 26/04/2018 13:21diverse and so are yoga teachers and their
aspirations for themselves and for their
graduates and that’s a wonderful thing.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that we are
not a business because we are. We support
our staff and their families by paying wages
and the support structure such as printers,
venues, products and of course the
assistants who are apprentices.
You can earn money and be sincere.
I have a problem with those who believe
we are doormats to wipe their feet and
to dump their personal issues on. I
always have a therapist as part of our
team because yoga will detox the body
and the mind, and it can often explode
during a course! We are prepared to be
there to help, but in the end, we are not
professionals in that given area.
I think many teachers out there will have
experienced fallout and how undermining
it can be both for the team and the group,
when a person becomes highly fraught; but
we can only take each step at a time and
try our best to be kind when needed, firm
when appropriate and to accept defeat
when it’s imperative.
Having a professional therapist and
psychologist has been an asset to our
school as it recognises people who may
need emotional support that often is
released during an intense yoga training.
So it may be dawning on you that
running a yoga teacher training faculty
is a complex job; it is, but it’s also very
rewarding of course when we see our
graduates transform their own lives then
those of others.
My favourite students are those who
come with no qualifications because at
school they were considered slow, not
clever or lazy. There is no such thing –
only negative teaching. It’s such an
honour to graduate these people, to watch
them start to believe in themselves and
to be the person they truly are...amazing
human beings!
They work in prisons, hospitals, doctor’s
surgeries, in the maternity unit, in schools,
youth offending institutes and care homes.
We have graduates with their own studios
and classes all over the UK and the world
who often work together, support each
other, and always encourage the feeling of
family that includes their SPY Babies, so I
am now a grandmother too!
I always say that if I were a stick of rock I
would have the word Mother running all the
way through it! OM!Contact Anne-Marie Newland at:
sunpoweryoga.co.uk