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How To Be A Great Yoga Teacher

There are now more yoga teachers than ever. Everybody seems to want to be a yoga teacher. One of the things that I noticed recently is that there are not many teachers who stand out as exceptional yoga teachers. Here are 3 ways to stand out and be a great yoga teacher:

Be Honest

Being honest goes along with yoga and this means being a genuine person. Being a light of honesty and openness to others, specifically students who come to you. 

The reason this is important is that people – know it or not – come to yoga because they’re trying to be okay with who they are and you leading by example allows them to do this easier.

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Know Your Stuff

Too many yoga teachers teach for years and give no feedback and/or adjustments to their students. And in many ways they barely know how to teach more than a few yoga poses and maybe one or two pranayamas.

Being a yoga teacher means that the learning doesn’t just end the day you get your teaching certificate. It’s ongoing and it also means that you take continuing education courses and also attend other yoga teachers’ classes, to see how they do things; sometimes better than you.

Take Time For Yourself

I once taught a yoga teacher training (YTT) where one of the students quit her job the night before. She did this as she wanted to make sure that she would be a yoga teacher by having no back-up plan. Don’t do that!   

Making a comfortable living as a yoga teacher is still difficult and does require teaching sometimes too many yoga classes.

There is a threshold of teaching too much and yoga teachers cant teach more than one yoga class a day and at a minimum you should take a day off each week from teaching. If you don’t get back to yourself, you will be of no benefit to the people who come to your yoga classes.

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As we said above, there are many yoga teachers now in the world – even more now in post Covid – but to stand out as a great yoga teacher: One needs to be honest, to know their craft well and needs to make room and space for themselves.