12/03/2024
Teaching yoga as a full time career is absolutely possible (example: my life for the past 9 years), though the vast majority will often passionately tell you otherwise.
They’ll tell you it’s not a “real job”. It’s “impossible” to support yourself as “just a yoga teacher”. They’ll tell you that you’ll never be able to provide yourself quality medical care or insurance with work like that. They’ll call you “naive” and say things like “you clearly don’t understand the real world” if you think you can make yoga your full time life.
For years I have experienced people openly debating (both to my face and online) my intelligence, my business abilities, my education, my body, the way I speak, the way I walk, the homes I’ve lived in, the clothes I wear, the makeup I don’t wear, and anything else they can pick apart in attempt to tear down my confidence and bolster their uneducated and baseless opinions on my life and career.
But guess what? They’re wrong. About ALL of it. So wrong that it makes me laugh hysterically at this point in my career. I have spent nearly a decade proving them wrong again and again and again and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
Thankfully being questioned and spoken down to about my work doesn’t phase me anymore as I’ve come to realize that people who so deeply criticize others are often just experiencing unhappiness with their own paths and choices in life, and that is theirs to sort out.
So let the miserable people chatter, because when you stay true to your dream, patient with the process, and devoted to your work, the rest will handle itself. I promise.
✨PS my yoga school will be opening in 2025 with both local and international training programs as well as continuing education. I’ll see you in class.✨
All photos captured by at the 2023 Bali retreat
