How do you know if you’re ready for a Yoga training?

The other day someone asked me how I knew I was ready for the YTT when I did it and to be honest I didn’t.

I don’t think anyone thinks they’re really ready for something like this. 

For me it was a realisation that I couldn’t go on with the same life I had been doing up until that point, something had to change. 

So, I spoke to my husband about it and he agreed that it would be good for me to do something like this. 

The very next day we got an email from an agency in Australia saying that someone wanted to rent our place for 3 weeks over Christmas which would bring the funds for me to go to New York for the 3 weeks of the training… I couldn’t ignore that sign. 

I had also been working with a coach and done my first meditation training where I learnt this clarity meditation and my inner guidance was all pointing to a ‘yes’. 

I remember on the day I sat down to book the flights, I was sitting with Enzo my husband on the couch and I was having second thoughts. “I don’t think I can leave the kids” I said for the umpteenth time. He replied “Mad, if you don’t go this month, you will find yourself here in 6 months crying on the couch saying the same thing”. 

You won’t know it is the right thing, until you do it. 

11 years later and a successful business running yoga classes on Lake Como, teaching retreats worldwide and now running YTT in our own studio in Sydney, Australia… I think the results speak for themselves.. 

So how did I know? I guess it was more of a feeling in my belly that this might change my life, and it did. 

Here’s a little inner guidance meditation that might help you if you're stuck on a decision you need to make. 

Trust that voice within that it always guiding you...

If not you, then who?

if not now, then when? 

Maddy XX

The gang from my Strala Guides training in New York