03/08/2025
This image took me SUCH a long time to fill out. There are so many facets to being a full-time Yoga teacher. Here are a few that come to mind, but are by no means all/inclusive of everyone’s experience. Just thoughts I have about myself and what others have shared with me
From the outside, u tend to see someone who:
🥹 looks confident in general
🥹 is a people-person
🥹 is bendy
🥹 comes up with creative new flows every week like magic
🥹 is always calm and in control
😃 has loads of followers, online or in person
🥹 has a busy schedule so clearly must be doing well
But here’s what you may not see that’s also so real for me and others I’m sure. Behind the scenes I’m
🤯 questioning who I am to be teaching, how I look doing certain poses etc.
🤯 introverted at heart- although I love chatting and getting to know ppl, when I’m done a class, I need time to just sit quietly in my car for a min. Teaching can be tiring.
🤯 someone who can’t do certain poses. That’s just a fact. I used to get insecure about this and work towards improving advance poses like my life depended on it. Over time I’ve realised that this was more about my ego. I now spend more time making sure I can cue these poses for any body type or concern.
🤯 constantly planning new flows to keep students engaged. Sometimes it feels like I’m trying to recreate the wheel. That if I don’t come up with something different, people will get bored. It takes time to make sure to get the right balance of repetition & exploration. But it can be tiring.
🤯 I often get told how calm I always look. Internally though I often struggle with anxiety. Whether I’m teaching properly, how I look, how I come across online and offline etc. it’s 1 of the reasons I struggle with social media posts in general (and I’m sure I’m not alone on this one!)
🤯 so grateful to have a busy teaching schedule but behind the scenes, I spend much of my time racing from class to class and managing all the different aspects of having a small business, be it invoices, marketing, emails, website updates, blogs etc. it can be a lot.
Despite the struggle, I’m grateful for it all. Still the best job ever❤️🙏🏽
