School for yoga

Part of a seriously organized School for yoga is the training of a suitable teaching staff. The personal practice and knowledge is one thing, but giving that knowledge and guiding other people requires an appropriate approach and methodology.
Training the teaching staff by teacher Pavlos K. Hassanagas officially began in 1980. Since then the School For Training And Improving Yoga Teaching Staff has been working actively. It trains instructors, assistants and medical consultants. The training consists of organizing teaching courses and teaching seminars, passing of appropriate exams, practical participation in the lessons and preparation of papers in the field of teaching methodology. So far there were a lot of teaching courses and teaching seminars under the guidance of teacher Pavlos K. Hassanagas and the senior teachers.
The active teaching staff of the Federation consists of three yoga professors, four yoga instructors, three assistant instructors, four assistants and four medical consultants who work in all the centres and sections of the Federation.
The personal improvement is the first and essential part of the training of a yoga teacher. The whole teaching matter can be upgraded if the basic and personal improvement of the teacher is strong and constant. Therefore, the training doesn’t depend only on the passed exams. In this sense every teacher continues to learn and improve constantly.
As in every other tradition, in yoga the essence lies in the teacher’s ability of giving the knowledge and in the disciple’s power of receiving. They act mutually, they can’t act without each other. The main concern of the teacher is to help the disciple until the moment he can stand on his own feet, although that relationship doesn’t have to know time limitations.

Even Taitiria Upanishad writes about conveying knowledge and the role of the teacher and the disciple: