Day #10 - Yoga Education

I feel like a fraud, or rather an imposter.

This week they are hosting a meeting for assessors/mentors/teacher trainers from around the world to discuss the current assessment model.

Because of this meeting, they have closed RIMYI for the week.

But what to do with the international students who have come for the month?

So we have been given a program for the week which includes us in some of the teacher’s meeting sessions.

Now you will understand why I feel like an imposter.

If you feel intimidated being a class level that’s a bit over your head imagine how I felt in a convention hall with hundreds of the most senior teachers from around the world.

Everything that was being spoken about is in the context of assessment and teacher training.

I just came to Pune for a good yoga class, but since I am a student in the assessment process, my ears did prick.

It was encouraging to hear the senior teachers talk with such humility. To hear of their concerns on their position of having to ‘judge’ students is reassuring.

Actually just the fact that this conversation is being had between the Iyengar family and the world associations leaves me feeling hopeful for me and my peers.

Prashant said many things, I have 8 pages of notes, I will leave you with his most repeated sentiment

Which was something along the lines of… The importance of education, not training. A teacher is not a teacher because they know the technical requirements of a pose, but what makes a teacher is a maturity that comes from practice and exploration and self-study, this is how we get educated.

While the senior teachers are solving the problems of Iyengar assessment, I was shopping for bloomers.