1. Many people that have a health career and enjoy the benefits of yoga, secretly wish they could pass some of these benefits on professionally. They easily see the health benefits of yoga. They get that "all is perfect and well" feeling at the end of the class. Perhaps we can coin the term holistic yoga teacher and fulfill their secret desire.

2. Imagine pulling one of the many yoga techniques out of your holistic yoga teacher tool kit, and helping that fearful client sitting in the chair waiting for a procedure, or the tense mother lying on the massage table. Be able to share yoga right there on the table. No yoga mat or props required.

3. Think that to become a yoga teacher means you have to stand on your head? I totally agree with the Kripalu thinking that Yoga is less about standing on your own head and more about standing on your own two feet. In fact, most times standing on the head is better left as an idea not an ideal.

4. If you can breathe, you can do yoga. Are you breathing? Then you can. There are many tales about individuals literally nurturing their body back step by step, or we could say, breath by breath from immobility to a twitch, to slight movement, to movement with yoga breathing. Such a gift.

5. Funny how while studying to be a holistic yoga teacher as an add on to your health career, you yourself automatically embark on a healing journey. You discover how to help your unique body mind function better; you experience more ways to natural health through holistic yoga.

6. Yoga fitness is for the physical body. Holistic yoga is for the body mind and spirit. All three body mind and spirit are with us, and body mind and spirit need equal attention if we are to be happy and healthy. Meditation, deep relaxation, movement sandwiched between the breath are yoga exercises that nurture mind and spirit.

7. Interesting how the foundation of yoga is ignored a great deal. The foundation is the short verses, yamas and niyams, that address how we are to be. And there are 10 of them. They remind me of the short sayings like, Love thy neighbor as thyself; Do no harm. The corner stone is non-violence.

8. Being able to touch the toes has been associated with yoga. It is one of those myths right up there with becoming a pretzel and yoga being a religion. What we actually want to touch in yoga is our true Self . It's the way of holistic yoga and a natural add on for those with a health career.