Give Yoga, Get Yoga

Give Yoga, Get Yoga : Teacher Training Service Exchange

ALIY and Dharma Project are pleased to announce a yoga teacher training program that can be paid with yoga service. Hour for hour. The number of hours you train for are the number of hours you offer to teach in the community and at All Life is Yoga. This was the original vision for the Dharma Project. I got distracted, in all the best ways, by fellowships and am exited to finally launch this initiative. The Dharma Project has partnered with many community based organizations that are doing powerful work to support the wellbeing of ALL Atlanta residents. This program will allow teachers to provide their work in communities that have little to no exposure to yoga.

We are committed to developing a more inclusive yoga community for Atlanta. The current demographic that yoga serves is 75% white women. Many people do not consider yoga as something for them. When people see themselves represented in the leadership, they are more likely to participate. Therefore, this training opportunity will give priority to people of color, men, seniors, those that want to share yoga with varying body sizes and those that have a financial barrier to participating in a teacher training course. 

Give Yoga, Get Yoga applies to both our 200-HR and 300-HR Teacher Training programs that begin in spring 2019.

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS AND APPLICATION! 

The 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at All Life is Yoga will provide students with a strong foundation for teaching and practicing yoga.   Click here to get more information or to register for the 200hr teacher training 

The 300-HR Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at All Life is Yoga is available for anyone who has completed a 200 hour program at ALIY or another school. Click here to get more information or register for the 300hr teacher training.

If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Deliver Me From Myself

This month we celebrated what feels like the one true and sacred holiday we have in this country. Lately, I’ve been preoccupied with hierarchy. I’m grateful for the ways in which Dr. King challenged hierarchy and courageously paved the way for so many of us to challenge it.

There is  hierarchy in yoga—of master teachers, of a for profit business, of access...I wonder, what does a beloved community in this context look like? The message of Dr. King and yoga is the same. Yoga compels us to recognize our interconnectedness. There is no essential difference between you and I. Whether we feel it or not, what happens to one impacts all that is and in caring for one, the other experiences healing.

Is yoga beloved, sacred, communal for you?