Are you thinking about doing a yoga teacher training? Do you want to become a yoga teacher? Have you recently completed your teacher training and are feeling a bit uncertain? This episode is for you!
The beginning of May marked my one year teaching anniversary, and I decided to celebrate that by having my boyfriend and travel podcast co-host, Ryan, interview me on what the last year has been like for me, and how becoming a yoga teacher has changed my life. We talk about what inspired me to become a yoga teacher, what I’ve learned in the last year of teaching, what yoga has taught me about myself, and much more. I share the biggest business lessons I’ve learned through my personal journey as a teacher, and through people I’ve met and talked to along the way.
Enjoy!
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Business Lessons
- Redefine failure for yourself
- Go into a teacher training program with an open mind (a beginner’s mind!)
- Find the right teacher training program for YOU – what was right for me might not be right for you!
- Playing it cool doesn’t work if you’re trying to find a teaching job
- You will never feel ready to teach your first class
- Tell people that you want to teach!!
- Don’t look for feedback from your students while you’re teaching
- Push through your fears
- Not everyone is going to like you and your teaching style
- People show up to practice for different reasons, and you may not be the teacher that someone needs in that moment
- Stop trying to please people, and just be yourself
- Be prepared to audition if you want a job at a studio!
- Learn to make yoga accessible to every single person who comes to your class
- Teach for your students – this is really hard when you’re new!
- You’ll know everything that you need to know when you need to know it
- Be yourself, not the teachers around you
- Imitate, integrate, innovate
- Continue to practice consistently
- Meet yoga studio owners instead of sending blind emails
- Find private clients and charge them a lower rate
- Never pretend like you know it all – you don’t (and probably never will)
- Push yourself outside of your comfort zone
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
Photos from my yoga journey…
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