AM ALUMNI
Fer Cervantes | @mariafcervantes
AM V200 - SEPT 2022
CDMX Mexico 🌎
I have always loved movement, and it has been a constant in my life since I was a kid, but when I started dancing competitively I fell into a ‘never good enough’ mindset, after a lot of thought and an injury that led to surgery I took a very hard descition: to quit dancing, but found yoga and fell in love instantly, it gave all the awareness and freedom dancing gave me without the need to compete, a couple of years later I took my fist training with Twameva yoga and started teaching as soon as I graduated, but then the pandemic hit and that’s el when I found that am was doing a virtual training and I decided to apply for a partial scholarship, and two years later here I am as an AM alumn with the desire to keep learning as much as I can so I can share it and hopefully he’ll others find the awareness, joy and freedom the practice has given me.
Reflecting on the AM YTT Experience
| Why did you choose Authentic Movements for your YTT? | |
| I love a quote that says ‘quizá lo bello es moverse según su propia naturaleza’ i don’t know it in English but it says that there’s beauty in moving according to everyone’s own nature, and I feel that AM gets that, I never felt like I had to look a certain way or get into an specific shape to be considered a yoga practicioner/teacher, but it does feel like you celebrate individuality and creativity. | |
| How did the online training platform work for you? | |
| Great sometimes not so great others, but that because I’m not that good at organizing my time so that was an extra challenge for me, but what I loved is how I could take my time to digest all the information and also being able to come back to it if I needed to. | |
| How has your teaching changed since completing the AM YTT? | |
| I feel more confident in incorporating different forms of movement even when they’re not traditional asana and I feel like I am able to explore movement and give the students the space to explore their bodies and what works best for them. | |
| How have you engaged with the AM community of alums and students during and after the training? | |
| The AM community is si welcoming and warm and always willing to help with the course content, ti practice or even just ti chat. | |
| What was your favorite part of the course content? | |
| The introspection practices | |
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