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Combining sound business strategy, introspection and yoga philosophy to help yoga teachers teach with passion, earn a fair living and avoid burn out.
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This ep is taken from a super important masterclass held recently on The Base: How to boost your short term yoga income.Now many of our trainings for yoga teachers at Yoga Hero are £400... So I thought rather than talking about generating extra income in a hypothetical way, wouldn't it be great to have a figure to work towards, so, how about £400?!There's four suggested methods of boosting your short term yoga income.Within each of the four methods, we'll look at:- the general requirements so...
Before we dive in, let’s be clear that the only thing that will help you build your confidence offering physical adjustment in your classes is: getting experience offering physical adjustments in your classes!There’s no shortcuts unfortunately!However, twice a year at Yoga Hero, we hold half day workshop to go through the stages of offering adjustments to yogis and then loads of time to practice under the watchful eye of our trainers, to give you the experience that you need to be ...
Introducing Sanskrit in to your yoga classes can be daunting for all the reasons we talked about in episode 41, which was ‘Should yoga teachers use Sanskrit?’However, it doesn’t have to be daunting. (Promise!)This episode is 7 simple ways to add Sanskrit in to your classes, let's take a look: Go slow and steady - no need to rushBuild confidence in your pronunciationSay the Sanskrit with the EnglishSuggest a mantra for your yogisLead a chantLead Pranayama techniquesPick your time, and yog...
This episode is looking at a niggle in the yoga teaching world; competition from other yoga teachers. We’re looking at why a bit of competition is a good thinghow to not let it get the better of you - with practical, implementable tips here as alwayshow to stay in your lanehow yoga philosophy can helpunderstanding that more than one yoga teacher can thrive at a timehow we can build a network of collaboration over competitionLet’s do this! --The BaseA community for yoga teachers...
One of the things that frustrates me endlessly about teaching yoga is:"Yoga is so beneficial, it should be accessible to absolutely everyone!"Vs"Don’t teach for free! You’ll undervalue yoga!"This episode explores the question: Should yoga teachers care about money? We cover:Why yoga teachers often feel guilty about charging for classesWhy there’s commonly an issue with yoga teachers valuing their time, knowledge and effortsThe morality of earning money from yogaTeaching yoga f...
This episode is exploring the answer, your individual answer, to the question: Should yoga teachers demo while teaching?We’ll look at some reasons to demo, some reasons not to demo, and a few things to bear in mind overall. Demoing, for many yoga teachers, takes a lot of the fear around teaching. Your body does the pose and that facilitates how you find the language to guide your yogis in to the pose. But, cultivating the skill to teach verbally only can be really really useful. &nb...
This episode is exploring the answer - your answer - to a question that’s probably asked in every single teacher training: Should yoga teachers use Sanskrit?We’ll look at some reasons for using Sanskrit, and some concerns around using Sanskrit, and then a few questions to help you make your own mind up. The absolutely incredible Sanskrit teacher; Hali Schwartz, coming to Yoga Hero in Leeds on 1st June to teach us a day of Sanskrit. So if you’re ignited and inspired to bring Sanskrit in to you...
This episode is essentially the epitome of this whole podcast: When we boil it down, it’s teaching what you love and making a fair living from that. Teaching yoga should pay your rent, it should put food on the table, it should pay all the bills and leave a little left over for a buffer or a rainy day or savings… This episode breaks down the ways that you can bring Yoga Nidra in to your offerings and your teachings to benefit you and your yogis.We’ll be looking at different ways to shar...
There’s so many things that we want to do as yoga teachers; including keep a steady practice going for ourselves and add to our knowledge and ability to keep our offerings absolutely great for our yogis (and all our other roles and responsibilities too!)… This episode addresses the barriers to setting up and executing a regular Yoga Nidra practice, and - spoiler alert - it’s basically a repeating reminder to be kind to yourself. To refine that balance of the discipline, the tapas of sett...
This episode is a very special episode - it’s a Yoga Nidra for yoga teachers. But this is a yoga nidra with a difference. This special Yoga Nidra is designed to help you learn about Yoga Nidra whilst practising Yoga Nidra! You might - hopefully you will - be so relaxed that you feel like you’re not consciously taking the information in; like you’re not paying attention. But trust us, you will be. Trust that, the more you relax and let go, the more impactful the Yoga Nidra will ...
This episode is about the power of Yoga Nidra. We’ll start off with an introduction to Yoga Nidra, before looking at Yoga Nidra’s relationship to yoga philosophy. We’ll then dive in to the understanding Yoga Nidra’s impact on the brain wave states, and we’ll finish with a summary of the benefits in the context of everything that we’ve just learned.Yoga Nidra is such an underrated, powerful, impactful practice. Yoga Nidra, “yogic sleep” is a powerful practice that guides participants into...
This episode is a bit different; it’s our first ever bonus episode, and it’s about my journey to becoming a full time yoga teacher. Our last episode; episode 35 was entitled ‘how to become a full time yoga teacher’, and I was acutely aware that the yoga teaching landscape looked so different when I made the leap a decade ago, than it does now, and I thought it might be useful to dig a bit deeper. So, if you’re not bothered about my story, and to be honest I wouldn’t blame you - this...
This episode is all about how to become a full time yoga teacher, starting with a quick look at whether it’s right for you. Many people have a really romantic notion of what it’s like to be a full time yoga teacher but - while it can be an incredibly rewarding job, it is important to walk in to it with your eyes well open about the realities. There’s a harsh truth in there too, how lovely. Then we look at how to determine if now is the right time, or indeed, when the ‘right time’ is for ...
This episode is focusing on balancing having a job and teaching yoga; including being really honest about what happens if and when these conflict, mindfully switching roles (I talked about the importance of this last week in episode 33: balancing parenting and teaching yoga), making sure that there is actually enough time for everything that you want to do, and what yoga philosophy says to help us prioritise.Get your free role switching meditation here Now that so many of us have the off...
This episode is about balancing being a parent, and being a yoga teacher. Expect some food for thought about how you can manage and balance your unique set of circumstances, some tools and tricks and tips for balancing the demands of being a parent and a yoga teacher, and how to look after yourself in amongst all of this: how to prioritise, how to know when things are hitting the fan, and we’ll finish up some tools to ease the parent guilt. Throughout the episode I'm using the term ...
How to teach yoga workshopsBefore we dive in to the ‘how’ of teaching yoga workshops, let’s look at the ‘why’. In the interests of full disclosure here, I absolutely LOVE teaching, and attending, yoga workshops, so expect a healthy dose of shameless passion here! The benefits of teaching yoga workshops: Workshops are one off, so there's no ongoing commitment. So you can deliver workshops without having to be free every week- like you'd have to be for a weekly class. A fab...
You’ve worked so hard to get your yoga teacher training certification. You’ve built up a following, got experience, even built up some confidence, and now feels like the perfect time to start teaching your own classes! It’s so exciting! You’ve got some mats, the space that you’ve found is perfect and you can’t wait… but… oh wait. People are asking how much your classes will be. And you just don’t know where to start…Does that sound familiar? If so - do not worry! By the ...
This episode is a complete guide to how to create yoga yoga brand. We'll be looking everything that you need to know to create your your brand, including why you need one in the first place, how it helps you with every aspect of being a yoga teacher - because I really do truly believe that it does - and how it helps to boost your confidence as a yoga teacher. Your yoga brand comes from having a defined, clear picture of who you are as a yoga teacher, what you offer, and who you want to t...
You're a yoga teacher because yoga has improved your life - possibly immeasurably - and you have a desire, a need, to share that with others.Whilst asana is a hugely important part of yoga, it's not the full story, and as such, as yoga teachers, sharing the full story; the roots and the history of yoga, is probably part of the job. But it's not necessarily a part of the job that comes easily, that's covered in yoga teacher trainings, that's even accessible...Well, this podcast episode aims to...
What's your WHY as a yoga teacher? If someone was to ask you: Why are you a yoga teacher? What makes you get out of bed in the morning? What's your motivation when things get tough? Would you be able to answer them - without thinking - in a way that's completely true to you?This podcast episode is short and sweet, and is created to help you define your WHY, so that you can be and stay focused, motivated and passionate about teaching yoga. See the show notes here--The BaseA community...
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