Pros And Cons Of Taking Yoga Certification From Abroad

Apart from being a fulfilling learning experience for the aspirant, it helps you evolve into a mediator between your students and their inner wellness. Simply put, it can be a life-changing experience that helps you maintain and propagate the discipline you were taught. It helps you stay in touch with your chakra and build a healthy fulfilling lifestyle.

If you are seeking to do your certification abroad, there will undoubtedly be challenges you will face. The purpose of this article is to simplify the process and help you get a better perspective before making a definitive choice.
Doing your training abroad can be an invigorating and exciting experience. Be sure to keep your mind and heart open to all sorts of people, cultures and practices. What better way to imbibe these encounters than through yoga?

Starting with the pros, here are the reasons why you should most definitely consider doing your certification abroad.

YOGA WILL NOW BECOME YOUR ONLY ACTIVITY TO PURSUE

Here’s the thing, pursuing your certification in the same country you reside or work in, means you have a lot of commitments, ranging from work to family to friends. For a profession like a yoga instructor, where the number one rule of thumb is concentration and dedication, these commitments translate to distractions.

Seeking your certification abroad requires you to leave all these distractions aside and start a new life altogether. This will motivate you to solely dedicate your time to yoga, rather than it just being reduced to another task to tick-off, on your to-do list. Though this might seem daunting at first, it gives you a chance to start anew. It will be like taking a break from your current busy life and going away on a soulful vacation, post which you’ll be a changed person.

YOU’LL ABLE TO FINISH THE COURSE IN ONE GO

Quite frankly put, doing the course in your country might turn out to be a long-drawn course due to the aforementioned “distractions”. This might cause you to lose motivation and leave it in the middle. Rather than risking this, a course abroad would help you finish with it all in one go.

NEW FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO FORM TO BONDS WITH

This might be the most exciting part of the journey yet, apart from all the wondrous travelling you’ll get to do, the best experience will be one with your new friends that you’ll get to interact with. Keeping in touch with them after you return will allow you to keep in touch with the bond you shared during your training.

Whelp! this was it for the fun dilly-dallying part of the experience. Now it’s time to face some harsher truths of the same. Strap in folks, as we dive into what the cons might be.

INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAMMES

The number one problem of a yoga certification offered abroad is the intensity of the course. Typically, it will require you to dedicate your entire time for a few months, to purely training and practice which can turn out to be quite draining if not handled with the same intensity. While the obvious argument in its favour can be the uninterrupted momentum of the course, one might not be able to take so much time off and dedicate oneself entirely. Additionally, a lot of these programmes require you to disconnect completely, reduce mobile usage, lesser time to browse the internet, etc.

THE EXPENSES OF STAYING ABROAD

Even if it is for a few months, the cost of staying abroad can be quite high, including the course fee, the travel expenses, accommodation etc. Non-monetary expenses such as the hassle of booking rooms, seats and running to and fro, for your visas and passports, can also make the process entirely exhausting. In addition to this, the course will require you to adapt to a whole new country and culture without giving you the time to adjust to the massive change.

In all, the experience solely depends on you and your requirements. Hopefully, this article helped you to navigate through the process and gain a better perspective of the same.