by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 19, 2016 | Blog, Lifestyle
You complete your yoga teacher training (YTT), and jump in as a full-time yoga teacher, teaching multiple classes a week. Maybe you teach 3-5 classes, 10-15 classes, or even upwards of 20 classes. Regardless of how many yoga classes you are teaching in a week, you are probably experiencing some of the following:
Exhaustion unparalleled with anything you ever felt in any job you worked in. It’s definitely worse than that office job you were working before you did your YTT, and surprisingly more exhausting than your brief stint as a waitress years ago.
You have become BFF’s with your car. The two of you travel around the city that you live and teach in each and every day. You travel to places in the city that you had never been before just so that you can make enough money to get by. You become grateful that you are zen enough not to yell as you spend hours crawling along in traffic, often way too hungry for your own good.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 19, 2016 | New Yoga Teacher, Show Notes
Do you want to teach yoga, but you’re not sure where you want to take your career? There are a lot of career options as a yoga teacher, and it can be confusing to pick just one.
On this episode of the podcast, Canmore based yoga teacher, Lydia Zamorano, shares her career path as a yoga teacher. She went from teaching full-time, to owning a yoga studio, to teaching around the world, to being a mom and a yoga teacher, and now to running yoga teacher training programs. Lydia shares how she has changed her path many different times in search of what truly makes her happy within her yoga career. Lydia is living proof that you don’t have to choose one path and stick to it, and that it’s okay to change your direction along the way.
Enjoy!
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Business Lessons
- Moving from being guided by someone to having your own guided self-practice can help you to grow as a teacher
- Find your self-motivation to get on your mat
- Don’t simply regurgitate information that you hear from another teacher
- Doing a karma or donation based class can be a great way to get teaching hours
- Approach yoga studios to get on the sub list
- Show yoga studio owners that you have experience, and that you are willing to go out and get your own experience
- Share your passion and motivation with people
- Be a self-marketer!
- Create a progressive course and build an audience
- 10,000 hours to mastery!
- What do you think you need to do to get a following?
- Will social media work for you to help you to be a better yoga teacher?
- Find your community
- Owning a yoga studio may not work for your lifestyle
- Choose what is most important to you in your life
- Make space in your life for the things that make you happy
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
Connect with Lydia
by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog, Business
I have never met Brea Johnson face-to-face, and although I have heard her name in the Canmore yoga community, our Skype call was our first time “meeting”.
We immediately hit it off.
Brea talks easily and laughs often, and her passion for yoga is contagious.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 14, 2016 | New Yoga Teacher, Show Notes
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Do you want to become a successful yoga teacher? Are you interested in owning your own yoga studio? Do you want to break away from the conventional path of teaching yoga?
On this episode of the M.B.Om podcast, Brea Johnson is here to share her story as a yoga teacher. Brea jumped into teaching yoga immediately after completing her YTT and taught 25 classes per week! From there, she owned a yoga studio, sold her yoga studio, took a break from yoga, and then came back into yoga with a whole new outlook on being a yoga teacher.
Brea shares her views on yoga in the 21st century, what it takes to be a great yoga teacher, and how she makes yoga accessible for all her students.
Enjoy!
Business Lessons
- Make yoga accessible in all ways, from classes to marketing
- Jump right in and just teach as much as you can
- Find a balance between teaching and practicing
- Owning a yoga studio is extremely fulfilling, but it can be exhausting
- Stay true to what’s right for you as a teacher and studio owner
- Be clear on how you’re going to run your yoga studio – it is a business!
- Know the market that you’re opening your yoga studio
- Always be authentic to who you are as a yoga teacher
- Follow your intuition
- Movement first, asana second
- Naming your yoga business as something that resonates with you
- You are your own brand
- Specialize in something unique
- Don’t just shoot off an email to try and work at a yoga studio
- Teach classes and learn how to teach
- Fake it until you make it!
- What people think of you has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with you
- Continue to refine your voice
- Never stop learning
- Define success for yourself
- Find a mentor & find out how they got to where they are now
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
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Connect with Brea
by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog, Business
Carolyn McPherson has a sense of adventure unlike anyone I’ve ever met before. She has lived and worked around the world, and after completing her YTT in India, she set out to teach yoga abroad.
One of the coolest parts about Carolyn being a yoga teacher is that she is Canadian, but she has never officially taught yoga in Canada.
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