What’s your WHY as a yoga teacher – Transcript

What is your why?

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?

Well, 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.

Being a yoga teacher can be incredibly rewarding, but also, incredibly challenging. In the good moments; where classes are well-attended, invoices are paid on time, work offers are rolling in and you’re feeling confident – you won’t necessarily need to consider why you’re teaching yoga.

But when times aren’t so good – class numbers are dwindling, you’ve lost your sequencing mojo, the income just isn’t coming in, and you’re finishing classes thinking ‘that wasn’t my best’ – then you really do need to know why you’re a yoga teacher. You need to know your why.

So grab a pen and your free worksheet, and let’s answer a few questions to uncover your WHY. Some of them might surprise you – from yoga teacher to yoga teacher, but trust me, it’s about getting your cogs turning, getting you thinking in a certain way, and you will end up with your why!

1. This time, next year – what do you want to have?

I know, I know. Aparigraha, non-hoarding. And Santosha – contentment! Why are we thinking about what we want to have, to buy? But trust me, we’re going somewhere and we’re going together!

Think:

House size

Any other properties – abroad, or to rent out?

Car – the make, model, year

Bike

Possessions, such as clothes, handbags, jewellery

Technology, such as a new phone, another computer

2. Ok, change of direction. What would you like to do?

Think:

What would you like to do in your business?

What about family – relationships, kids?

Where would you like to travel to?

How often would you like to take holidays, and how long for?

Is there a health issue that you’d like to work through?

What about other areas of your life where you’d like to achieve something?

3. Last but not least, what do you want to BE?

Apologies for this being a bit morbid, sorry sorry, but if you were to die a year today, how would you want people to remember you?

What qualities would you like to use to describe yourself, without feeling like a fraud?

What’s important to you?

Think – what emotions would you like to experience regularly?

What kind of friend would you like to be?

What kind of family member would you like to be?

What would your values be?

How would you see yourself?

Ok, let’s pause – they are some really huge questions there! Take some deep breaths.

Now, when you’re ready, cast your mind back over your thoughts, or over your notes if you wrote down notes, and what jumps out at you? In any of the sections – have, do, be – what is really important to you? What really resonates with you?

Now: Get really quiet, deep breaths, and ask yourself in your head, or out loud: Why am I a yoga teacher?

What’s the answer? If nothing, come back to this later today, or tomorrow. Just get quiet, take some deep breaths and ask yourself in your head, or out loud: Why am I a yoga teacher?

If you have a couple of minutes free, we’d be so so so so grateful if you could rate and review this podcast wherever you’re listening to it, and if you can share with a training, new or experienced yoga teacher too, well that would be just amazing.

And, as always, happy teaching.