Part 1: The Making of a Yoga Teacher -- How It All Begins
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s really like to do a yoga teacher training—or if you’re looking for insight, motivation, and honesty about the process—this episode shows how transformation begins: one decision, one class, one breath at a time. You'll meet Laurel, Raquel, and Erin and find out what made them say yes to their journey toward becoming yoga teachers.
🎥 Episodes in this series:
1️⃣ How It All Begins — Starting Yoga Teacher Training
2️⃣ Finding Your Voice — The First Time Teaching
3️⃣ Becoming Yourself — Confidence, Connection & Growth
4️⃣ The First Class — Teaching in the Real World
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to Yoga Land. I am Jason Crandall, yet again, filling in for Andrea Ferretti. |
| 0:05.3 | I have commandeered the podcast for another week, actually a couple weeks to come. |
| 0:11.5 | And what I'm about to play for you is episode one of the four-part mini documentary that I've just created called The Making of a Yoga Teacher, where I interview three students, |
| 0:23.2 | Aaron, Laurel, and Raquel about their experience of why they decided to do a teacher training |
| 0:29.0 | program, why they chose this teacher training program, and what the process has been like for |
| 0:35.8 | them. This is something everyone I have wanted to do for so long. |
| 0:40.9 | And the reality is when you are teaching a teacher training program, |
| 0:45.5 | you're so involved in so many different aspects of the training. |
| 0:50.6 | But I always wanted to provide an avenue where we could actually experience a little bit more |
| 0:58.2 | from the student's eyes. |
| 1:00.3 | And so I asked these three students to be part of this project and to just share their story. |
| 1:07.3 | I have wanted to also provide this for you because I know all of us that have done teacher training programs, |
| 1:16.7 | how impactful it is, how transformative it is. |
| 1:20.8 | And yet for all of us, we just have our memory to recall it. |
| 1:24.6 | And I decided that I wanted to create a project where I recorded it, |
| 1:29.7 | where we actually documented the process for students so that they could have it in perpetuity, |
| 1:35.9 | but also so that we could use it as a reminder of our own and a reminder of the human experience |
| 1:42.4 | of saying yes to something that's really valuable to us |
| 1:46.4 | and going through all of the whirlwind and the nuances and the humanness that come up |
| 1:53.4 | when we do a teacher training program. |
| 1:55.9 | So I think that you're going to really enjoy this episode. |
| 2:00.0 | You can also watch it if you're interested. |
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