How you can become a Successful Yoga Instructor

by Shiv K. Yoga Teacher Training India

Serious yogis would turn their passion of learning to teach, but not everybody can become a successful yoga instructor. A success comes with their dedicated efforts, hard work, intensity to understand their student’s needs and willingness to learn. It is their intention to win the student's hearts and minds that could make them a successful Yoga instructor.

These few tips below if followed can guarantee your success as a yoga instructor:

Understand your Students

It is your investment on your students in time and money that what makes you an instructor but to create an edge over others, you have to know and understand your student’s needs and their potentials. Be a good communicator and apply your skill to comprehend student’s problems, weaknesses and behavior patterns. In short, you need to read their body language and body mechanics and understand the type of asanas they can do. This you can do it by making them more communicative, appreciating and close to you.

Give expressions and tone to your voice

If you speak monotone or as quietly as a mouse, you can’t expect anyone to follow you, and soon you would have to face the situation where they would fall asleep or drift off mentally. While communicating with the students, you need to be very careful of the pitch. Each vocal sound or pitch brings emotions and energy. The tone should be polite and soft with the capability to arouse their attention. And there should be urgency in voice wherever necessary. Communication and a way you speak is a very big factor that defines your personality and will create an everlasting impression on your student’s minds.

Get creative in your style and cue

Adding creativity in the teaching style brings out the best in students and they can get the most of it. Being robotics makes the class boring but creative cues build the students interest easily and quickly. No doubt our society inscribes logic and particular structure in everything in which we have to move on but a bit of fun and creativity makes the life invigorating. The same rules apply in the class. If we keep on following the same structure, the class would be quite boring but a bit of fun element and creative cues generates energy and makes the class interesting. Creativity is like pouring sweetness on a sour dish which helps students not just to practice but to live yoga.

Be a Health Care

Showcase yourself not just as a yoga instructor but a health care provider and make yoga a complete wellness program. The program should not only be about teaching asanas but also about making them derive benefits of the same. Teaching students to stay healthy involves getting into the root of their problems and provide them the healing advice through asanas, eating habits and device their daily schedule.

No doubt yoga is in itself a complete healthy regime but to bring it to the people, if it is projected and advertised as a health care it would sure create an impact on the people.

Health care is community care which allows people to start living again and retaining a true balance in life.

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