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Before you pay anyone

Seven questions to ask any yoga
teacher training before you pay.

Most people choose a training on price and schedule, and then discover in the third month what they might have asked in the first week, when it is too late to do anything about it.

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A teacher training cohort in downward dog at the YogaSoul shala
A YogaSoul training weekend

What you get

Seven questions,
and what each answer tells you.

None of these are trick questions, and none of them are about us. The question itself is the easy part. What takes a little practice is hearing what an answer is telling you. Here are all seven.

  1. Who is actually in the room every weekend?

  2. How many people were in your last cohort?

    Then ask how many cohorts the program has graduated. A first cohort is not a bad thing, but you should know if you are in one.

  3. What week do I teach for the first time?

  4. What are we reading?

  5. Whose lineage is this?

  6. What happens when life happens?

  7. Would you ever tell me not to enroll?

The email sends each one in full: what the answer tells you, and what to listen for.

Send it to me

All seven open
on the next page.

All seven open on the next page, and a copy arrives by email so you have it later. You also join Rachel’s newsletter, which you leave in one click.

We answer all seven on our own pages, and we would rather you asked them of us directly. A training is a great deal of your life to hand to a school, and every one of these questions is worth the small discomfort of asking it out loud. The people who skip them do not find out they chose wrong at the open house. They find out in month three, standing in a room they have already paid for, next to a teacher who does not know their name. There is more depth in yoga than you have been able to reach.

Who is asking

We wrote these because
we answer them every week.

Rachel has been training teachers for more than twenty-five years and has graduated over three hundred of them. She is a C-IAYT certified yoga therapist and a World Yoga Federation Grandmaster, and her lineage runs directly to Krishnamacharya. None of that is why you should trust the list. You should trust it because these are the questions her own students tell her, afterwards, that they wish they had known to ask.

I almost did not apply because I did not feel advanced enough. That was the wrong question. This training meets you exactly where you are and takes you somewhere you did not know you could go.

Jess T. · 200-Hour Graduate

What happens next

Three steps. The first takes a minute.

1

Enter your email

The list arrives straight away. No call, no sequence of hoops, and you can leave the list in one click whenever you want.

2

Ask every school

Take it to us and to everyone else you are considering. The answers will differ more than the brochures do.

3

Choose knowing why

Whoever you pick, you will have picked them for reasons you can name, which is the whole point of the list.

Who you become

Someone who chose
on purpose.

You walk into every one of these conversations knowing what you are listening for, and whichever school you choose in the end, you will be able to say exactly why you chose it. That is a different thing from hoping you guessed right, and you can feel the difference the whole way through the training.

Rachel Cieslewicz practicing in Salt Lake City

Or see how we answer them.

Both trainings answer all seven on the page itself. For cost, formats and how certification works, read our guide to yoga teacher training in Utah.

200-Hour Training 300-Hour Advanced
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