How To Stand Out As A Yoga Teacher

Today, many people choose the path of yoga teaching. As with any business where you are the main product, it’s important to find a way to be distinctive and to stand out. In the context of yoga, more often than not that means defining your message and finding a way to get it across to the people that you want to teach.

You are the only you

We are all individuals and this is a huge selling point if you’re keen to stand out as a yoga teacher. All you need to do is distil the different elements of what makes you unique as a teacher and then find a way to express this through your teaching style. This can involve considerable self-awareness and understanding who you are and why you’ve chosen this path. Ultimately, it will be crucial to giving you the tools you need to create the career that you want to have.

The important questions to ask

• Why did you decide to take up yoga – and then to progress to being a teacher?
• What is it about teaching yoga that makes you feel like it’s the career for you?
• How are you different from other yoga teachers on the schedule?
• Define your passion for yoga, what does teaching yoga really mean to you?
• Why did you decide to teach, as opposed to simply practice, yoga?

It’s worth bearing in mind that your personality is likely to have a big impact on the answers to these questions. So, for example if you are always fizzing with energy you may develop a teaching style that is energetic and exciting. This could also be a way for you to help others to develop tools to cope with a personality that is similarly high energy and constantly seeking physical exertion. You’ll need to bear the needs of your students in mind when planning classes – allowing them to grow and push through boundaries – but a consistent teaching style will also help you to stand out as a teacher.

Why should students choose your classes?

This is one of the key questions to answer when you’re looking at how to stand out as a yoga teacher. You don’t need to add gimmicks or extras to your classes (such as giving away drinks after class) this is more about what you as a person can add to a student’s experience of yoga. It may be that you’re keen to bring a spiritual dimension with a little yoga philosophy, or show students how to break down and tackle the hardest poses. If you can understand for yourself why students might choose you then you’ll find it much easier to get your message across.

Being a great yoga teacher means understanding what you, as an individual, can bring to the mat and how this could change the experience that others have.

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