YMTT200 - you can do it too!!!

If you have been simmering about doing it for a while…JUST DO IT!

Sharing my journey to elevate my yoga practice through YMTT200. I started yoga with Bikram style when I was 18 years old. And ever since then, I’m in love with hot yoga. But bring a broke student at 18 meant that this interests never fully taken off until much later when I started earning my keeps after graduation. People often has the misconception that yoga = stretches and you need to be flexible. I am telling you, flexibility can be trained and yoga can be intense however much you want it to be.

Yoga is a solo and mindful practice with you yourself and I. Nothing matters while you are on the mat and that’s why it’s my go to outlet for stress relief. Long story short, I have been with YM for a while now, and almost have always been just doing Bikram styled yoga - monster hot/ hot method. While I have gotten flexibility through it, I really lacked the strength for arm balances and inversion since I don’t and always avoided going for power flow classes. Because of that I’m very hesitant to try YMTT as I felt I was not good enough to be a teacher since my yoga level is like noob. Turning 30 have given me a renewed outlook in life, urging me to check off that milestone in my bucket list. So I finally signed my arse up for YMTT200 and I HAVE NO REGRETS. I wanted to deepen my practice as an individual. Teaching thereafter was just a yes no maybe situation. YMTT200 with YM costed 3.9K, but on top of it, you get 40 free classes to be completed prior to the end of your TT. If you sign up early enough, you get to enjoy 10 free classes as well, which means you get 50 classes free. On top of that. YM also had complete 5 free 1 sessions, so I have gotten a lot of free classes just from there.

Beyond free classes, what I gained from my YMTT is something that I will keep for the rest my of my life;

- A wholesome group of friends that spoke the same lingo.

- A safe non judgemental encouraging space to share.

- Muscles and strength from all those practices.

- tips and tricks in mastering the inversions & arms balances.

- slowly learning how to accept myself and love my body.

- control and mindfulness in my body.

- learning that teaching is very different from actually practicing yoga. You don’t have to be an advance practitioner to become a yoga teacher.

- appreciation of other forms of yoga like zen, and power flow, but more importantly learning how to appreciate the little things in life if we have just slowed down and silence the mind.

While It sounds all fun and sunny, I am not going to lie, YMTT is a lot of time commitment. Your weekends are gone for the next 3 months. You’ll go through a roller coaster ride of emotions but at the end of the tunnel, you’ll always see the light.

Some considerations you might want to think about before signing up.

1. Motivation

2. Time

YMTT requires huge time commitment. It’s consecutive 8-7pm every single weekend for about 9 weeks. You get a weekend in between, around the 5th week mark. You need to have the tenacity and grit to grind it through as you will not have the same energy level every weekend to hold through, especially if you still have to attend a 8-6pm, 5 days a week corporate job like me! Good thing is you have your batch mates to rely on, sharing on the same emotional and physical roller coaster ride and this really helped a lot in making TT a lot more endurable!

3. Budget

While Yoga Movement is not as traditional as the other yoga studios out there, their mantra vibed with me - which is to make yoga accessible to normal people out there without the jargon of needing to know poses in sunscript. Am I a YM teacher yet after TT? Nope! I’m still taking things chill, slowly figuring out my 30s 😎