By Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500
Do you enjoy practicing Yoga? Does teaching Yoga seem like your ultimate dream job? Does the thought of becoming a Yoga teacher feel like a “calling from within?” How would you pay your bills teaching Yoga? If your life mission is becoming a Yoga teacher; let’s look at a few practical solutions to your obstacles.
If you feel like a “fish in water” during a Yoga class you are not alone. However, when teaching Yoga becomes your own long-held aspiration, your spirit will not be fulfilled in the “daily grind.” You begin to feel frustrated in commuter traffic, and during office hours, when your dream job of teaching Yoga seems out of reach. So what do you do next – if you really want to become a Yoga teacher?
Apparently, you are focused on your goal, so you are far ahead of the majority of people who do not have a clue about what they really want. Here is a formula, and sequence of events, for you to consider: Focus, action, plan, envision, pace yourself, and goal realization.
Focus: It seems like you already are focused on becoming a Yoga teacher, but you should do some research on what teaching Yoga is really like. The types of Yoga teacher training courses will vary, according to style, hours required, on-site training, or correspondence course. Also, the preparation for a 90-minute Yoga class is something the average Yoga student is unaware of.
Action: Most of the world’s population never gets to this point. Most people fall into a “rut” and never take any action to move forward. This requires even more research about what you plan to do, how you plan to teach Yoga, and who you plan to teach Yoga to.
Plan: Write your goals down and only share them with people you can trust. Look at your goal of becoming a teacher as often as possible. Write down the exact chain of events required for you to become a Yoga instructor.
Envision: Visualization is important in reaching any goal. When you practice meditation, you should see, feel, hear, and possibly smell, what your new career of teaching Yoga will be like.
Pace Yourself: There is a saying, “Rome was not built in a day.” If you try to get to your goal of teaching Yoga too quickly, you will “burn out” along the way. Life is a journey, not a race; “stop and smell the flowers” along the way.
Goal Realization: Once you become a Yoga teacher, do not “rest on your laurels.” Continuing education will be an important and valuable part of your life. A Yoga teacher is a student of healthy living for life.
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Should make a visualization, plan, research to be a Yoga Teacher and this is a very helpful article for those who wants to get the job as Yoga Teacher. Thanks a lot for sharing this helpful article.
Hello!! my name is Celina, I have six months I stared to practice Yoga, went down an app from my phone. I am so pleased whit the practice of Yoga I do, although I do not do well it’s made me such a diferent person who was a person who was always whit stress, now is as if appreciated both seconds of each minute, the minutes of each time, I feel this I wish I could teach it to others is why I would like to know how to teach others to feel th change, although little is definitely carried practicing this will be my goal to be an instructor Yoga. And enter your page gives me more courage and desire to want to do it.
A Yoga teacher is a student of healthy living for life, So continuing education will be an important and valuable part of life. Thanks for this valuable article.
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