By Amruta Kulkarni, CYT 500
As a yoga teacher, you are helping people become healthy
through an age-old method. The role of a yoga teacher can be highly rewarding.
People will come to you because they are looking for spirituality, confidence
and fitness. As a yoga teacher, you are doing many great things but you are
also running a little risk because there is some risk in any type of career.
Anytime you are asking people to do anything,
especially through fitness, there is the risk that people will push themselves
too far. By far, the biggest risk that you take as a yoga teacher is someone
hurting themselves in the class.
People will want to push themselves, especially if they are
in a class with people who are at a perceived higher yoga level than them. They want to
reach that same level, so they push themselves to do stretches that they may
not be ready for. As a yoga teacher, it is important that you know the fitness
and skill level of all your students. You are taking on the risk of that
student being in your class and possibly hurting him or her. As a result, you
need to do what you can to prevent that from happening. You need to put them
into a class filled with people who are of the same skill level. You need to
provide them with one-on-one teaching so they can know how to do a pose properly.
It is up to you to keep them safe.
Another risk that you can avoid as a yoga teacher is within the
yoga studio itself. It is up to you to make sure that your yoga studio is safe.
This means having everything put away so there is nothing to trip over or
collide into. This means that your floors are clean, there is nothing slippery
and that when students come into the studio, they are coming into a safe
atmosphere. In addition, you need to make sure that all the yoga equipment is
in good working order and there is no risk of an equipment failure hurting
someone.
The other risk you take as a yoga teacher is just being a
teacher and competing against many other yoga teachers in your city. Being a
yoga teacher is rewarding, but it is not always the easiest job. You are
competing against a lot of others and you have to do what you can to ensure
that you come out ahead of your competition. In order to do this, you have to
accept the risk of competition and the best way to do that is to be better than
your competition. You don’t need to have huge classes to compete.
Sometimes
smaller classes that have more one-on-one time is better because your students
will get more out of the class, and many will be willing to pay more for the
extra instruction. As a yoga teacher, owning a yoga studio, you are actually an
entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, risk is the name of the game. You need to
balance the cost of your studio, with the cost of advertising and supplies,
while bringing in enough money to pay for all of those things. Once you conquer
this risk, it is smooth sailing to being successful as a yoga teacher.
When you decide to be a yoga teacher, you are helping others
discover how amazing yoga is. You are helping them learn how to be healthy, and
be balanced in mind, body and soul. It is a wonderful career to have but it is
not without its risks, so know how to manage them.
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