My Life-Changing Yoga Teacher Training

Namaste Beautiful Souls 🙏🏼

Returning back after two month's in India has been a blessing and a heartbreak. My first week back in Sweden I kept dreaming that I was still in India, and in my heart - I still am.

It's not easy to describe how incredible my 200h Yoga Teacher Training at Anand Prakash Ashram in Rishikesh. I learned so much more about teaching Yoga, the wisdom of Yoga and my own practise than I thought I would. The teachers really taught from their heart with passion and Vishva-ji is so available - throughout the classes, both in the classroom, in the Ashram and teaching morning Yoga every morning. I'm so grateful we got to go to Ganga for some outdoor classes, to the Jungle Ashram and the the Hari Krishna Temple as a group.

Being together with a group of 30 people who all aspire to become Yoga Teachers is just so beautiful, it feels like you're together with people who are at the exact same place as you at the same time. We also did so many beautiful rituals everyday and we got some time with Vishva-ji where we got to ask personal questions where some advises he gave me really changed my life.

The food, staff and Ashram is really 5 star and more. Would recommend anyone who's looking for a Yoga Teacher Training beyond just the physical level, to come here because you will learn about the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional level both of yourself and other people.

Thank you so much everyone involved with my teacher training and everyone in the Ashram! I'm so grateful to have a new family, both my 200 YTT class of 30 people, the Akhanda Yoga family all over the world and a second home, the Ashram, to always come back to. 

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Santoshi 💗

A new kind of Monday - New Delhi

Last Monday I took the train to the office and sat by the desk for 8 hours. This Monday I'm finally in India and these are just some of the beautiful views today. I don't even think I can get how big the contrasts are.

I arrived in Delhi at 7am, very tired but excited to be back in India for the third time. This time feeling like coming home, I know how crazy it sounds but it felt like coming back to your summer house or a place where you spent all your summers as a child.

The first two times I went to India I remember being so overwhelmed and shocked by a lot of things. This time it was completely different. If feels like I can relax and just enjoy India now when I don't get surprised or scared.

When I arrived I tried to take out cast at the airport, tried 8 different ATMs and none of them was working. A lovely indian girl walked with me to all different ATMs to try to help me. She managed to get out cash on her card so I ended up asking a guy in his thirties if he knew a ATM close by the airport.

"Where are you going? I'll book you the taxi.", he said straight away.

I told him that I could get a taxi by the taxi stand but I just wondered if there was any ATM I could tell the Taxi driver to stop by. The same second I finished speaking he said, "I'll give you the cash, here's 500 rupees for the taxi. I tried to tell him again and again that he really didn't need to give me the money but he was just like:

"Don't worry about it, it's good karma".

I think we have a lot to learn from spiritual countries like India. I can't believe how helpful these two people at the airport was being. The girl going with me to 8 different ATMs and the guy offering me the money for the taxi. Believing in Karma makes you want to help every single being around you and by doing that you get help in ways you didn't even know was possible. THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH 🙏🏼

I wasn't suppose to go to New Delhi at all, I was suppose to fly to New Delhi and then take a flight the same day to Rishikesh. I'm really happy I'm here and get to finish my 30 days prep course for the YTT. Today I did 1 hour online Yoga class after my nap. Tomorrow I will go up on the rooftop at my Hotel and do a Sun Salutations Class in the sunrise. I can't wait to get to Rishikesh and the mountains.

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Yoga Teacher Training in India

I've decided to keep a blog/journal on my trip to India!

I've always loved journaling and used to journal by the age of 7-15 and picked it up last year. I now do it every morning again.

Last time I went to India, I traveled around the country for 6 months together with my sister and I really regret I didn't keep a blog while we were traveling. As much as I'm looking forward to having a break from technologies I think it will be a beautiful memory to carry with me for the rest of my life on this once in a lifetime journey.

I can't believe the day is here!!! I'm at the airport and thinking about the first time this idea even came to my mind. I was practising Yoga everyday at my favorite studio, Altromondo in Stockholm, and I was looking up to my Teachers so much. Seeing their life energy and listening to all their wise words in the classes. During one class I thought back of a Yoga class I did in the Maldives with one of the best teachers I've ever had. Later that day I messaged him and asked where he did his Teacher Training. In India, at Akhanda Yoga he replied. This was in June.

In July, I booked a 100 hours YTT in March 2020. By then only thinking I would do 2 weeks for my own practise, not thinking about becoming a teacher. When I started becoming really unhappy in my office job I couldn't stop thinking about the energy of my Teachers. Full of life, full of light. Then I asked Akhanda if they had any 200 hours YTT in 2020, and they did in February. Actually perfect timing with my March course. A week later everything was booked.

I just thought this is my purpose, this is what I really suppose to do. Everything else will just have to be sorted out. In November I told my manager that I was going to India for 6 weeks and therefore wanted to take all my holiday at the beginning in the year. When my managers declined it I stopped everything and listened to my heart. I knew that if I wouldn't do this, I would regret it forever.

Sitting here on the airport I must say it's been a long way here, a lot of planning, a lot of conversations with managers/work, a lot of Travel arrangements like VISA, booking flights, renting out my apartment, making a budget plan, the list is long but it's been SO worth it!

Tomorrow is Monday and instead of taking the train to the office I will wake up in New Delhi, maybe all of this will feel real by then.

If anyone if interested in doing something similar or is unhappy about where they are in life - let me know and I will answer all your questions the best I can. Would love to help in any way I can!

Just want to thank you all for your beautiful support, comments and love! I can't even explain how grateful I am for all your kind words.

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