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Am I ready for yoga teacher training? It's the question almost every would-be trainee asks — and in this three-way roundtable, Michael Henri, Byron de Marsé, and Kimberley Utama trace their own winding paths from "definitely not ready" to 26+ combined years of leading trainings.
Kimberley burst into tears in Shavasana at her very first class in Australia — "a coming home to myself" — then spent six years teaching before she could call herself a teacher. Byron, a shy kid from Oklahoma, walked into a Santa Monica power yoga class at 23 with no idea what was coming, practiced daily at a donation studio, and ended up on a reality show where yoga stopped being a hobby and became survival. Michael tore his ACL three weeks before his own training — and did it anyway.
Together they unpack the "I'm not ready" myth (not flexible enough, not fit enough, not spiritual enough), why most people who take a teacher training never teach — and why it's still worth doing, the child's pose trick for nervous new teachers, and what actually makes the training container transformative: reduced stimulation, real community, and being seen, heard, and held. As Kimberley puts it: there's life before teacher training, and life after.
All three teach together on The IN Movement's 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training this November in Ubud, Bali:
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Michael Henri’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelyoga.pt/
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The IN Movement Website: https://theinmovement.com/
Trainings and Events: https://theinmovement.com/events
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The IN Movement Podcast was formerly the Going Pro Yoga Podcast — and before that, the Yoga Teacher Evolution Podcast and the Rat Race Rebellion Podcast. Same mission, evolved name.
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