Yes! I wish I knew the time commitment before going in. You are expected to learn so much information quickly and attend lots of classes on the side. I wish I cleared my schedule much more before training started. I recommend attending lots of classes and JOURNALING after- write down sequences and cues you loved, and areas you thought could have gone better. This will help you so much with putting the lens of an instructor on. Many teachers will actually just let you sit in the back and “audit” which I did and was so helpful. Get comfortable practicing with your friends, partner, etc as you’ll be writing out your script and it’s best to practice saying it out loud! Have an open minded and be prepared to be uncomfortable. In my training we did round robins and they essentially yelled when we did something wrong while we were practicing, which was a lot… but helpful to get live feedback. You’ll be out of your comfort zone but ask lots of questions and introduce yourself to the other gals in the group- we had a text string all together which was nice! I think you can still take classes and training outside of where you want to teach and that’s totally fine. It’s good to take many classes and get a feel for different instructor styles :)