397: 13 Years Training Yoga Teachers with Lucas Rockwood
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
I always wanted to be a writer. Kerouac, Hemmingway, and Carver were my heros. Later it was playwrights Kushner, Ibsen, and Chekov. I’d drag home backpacks full of books from the public library, and I finagled my way into just about every theater I could find in New York City from Broadway to deep Brooklyn fringe venues. If you met me at age 20, you’d never predict I’d be teaching backbends and low glycemic diets at age 40 - but here we are.
Life is full of surprises. Sometimes the rug gets pulled out from under you; and sometimes, for no obvious reason, you simply shift gears and start driving another direction.
In 2002, I discovered yoga and alternative health. I was a much better writer (even back then) than I was a yoga student, but it didn’t matter. Passion is in short supply, so when you’ve got it, people want to be around you. By 2003, I was teaching and traveling; and by 2006, I founded the largest training school in South East Asia. What a change.
Learning and teaching are among the most rewarding things in my life, and on this week’s podcast, I’ll share with you the “best of” list from what I’ve observed after training more than 4,000 yoga teachers in the past 13 years. Hopefully my journey has some lessons of value for you, whatever your profession.
Listen & Learn:
- Why age, background, and athletic ability are NOT predictors of future teaching success
- How passion acts like magnet for opportunity
- The importance of a life and career plan
- Why you social circle matters just as much as your goals
- How speaking and teaching are meta skills
Links & Resources:
- Yoga Teachers College (my school)
- Yoga Business Mastery Podcast
About Lucas Rockwood:
Lucas Rockwood is an internationally-renowned yoga trainer, TEDx Speaker, podcaster, writer, and entrepreneur. His early yoga and meditation teachers include Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (deceased), Paul Dallaghan, Alex Medin, Gabriel Cousens MD, and SN Goenka (deceased). Lucas left the USA in 2003 when he began traveling and teaching extensively before making Barcelona, Spain, his home base. In a previous life, he worked in theater, publishing, and as a vegan chef and nutritional coach. He’s the father of three international kids and remains as passionate about yoga as when he first began practicing in 2002.
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Fish Oil
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm your host. I'm a yoga teacher, a trainer. I'm a serial |
| 0:07.9 | entrepreneur, a father. But first and foremost, I'm a student and this show is about me |
| 0:13.3 | learning. It's about me scratching my own itch. I got into the world and I find |
| 0:17.2 | PhDs and medical doctors, yoga teachers, movement specialists, |
| 0:21.6 | nutritional coaches, anybody who's got information that I think will help |
| 0:25.3 | you live a more passionate, purposeful, healthful life, and I bring him on the show. |
| 0:30.8 | This week's show is an exception. It's a solo show. It's just me. I've only done one of these in 2019, |
| 0:37.0 | so it's my second solo show. And the reception is usually good. Usually I think, hey, nobody's going to be interested in just me talking but turns |
| 0:43.6 | out some of you are so hopefully this one will be interesting as well I just |
| 0:47.5 | finished up a full month of training here in Barcelona in-person trainings and it really somewhere along the line we were having an evening |
| 0:55.3 | session and somebody said how long you been doing this I said this is my 13th year |
| 0:59.0 | training teachers and I don't even it doesn't even seem possible I don't even feel old enough to be doing something for 13 years, but it's happened. |
| 1:07.0 | And so I thought that was an interesting milestone. 13 years is really a career and it's certainly been a very significant body of work for me if I look |
| 1:16.7 | back at all the things I've done whether it was my corporate America work or running |
| 1:22.4 | restaurants working as a nutritional coach, |
| 1:25.0 | opening yoga studios, this podcast. The thing that really stands out is a highlight for me |
| 1:29.2 | and the thing that at least up until now really turns my gears is this training of teachers and it really |
| 1:36.9 | loops back to the way that I always open the show. |
| 1:40.0 | In order to train teachers, I have to become a very deep student, and it pushes me to learn at a level that I've just never had, whether it was in personal study or academic study, I've never had that kind of pressure. |
| 1:52.0 | And it's really exciting and rewarding and it |
| 1:55.4 | hasn't gone down at all in fact it's just gone up and up and up and up and the |
| 2:00.3 | level in depth and simplicity and clarity that we have in our courses now is just really exciting for me. |
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