YOGA TEACHER 6 TIPS ON WHAT TO DO AFTER YOU COMPLETE YOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

Yoga Teacher 6 TIPS ON WHAT TO DO AFTER YOU COMPLETE YOUR Yoga Teacher Training Course

Your recent thoughts have probably been focused solely on staying supple and getting through your yoga teacher training course. There’s a lot to get through and, likely, you were too engrossed in the program to consider “what next?” Even if your reason for completing the course was not to teach yoga, there are still many things to get done before you take a mat as a teacher rather than a student.

Mind your business

First things first, get registered with Yoga Alliance. It might be of any country. it’s a simple process that can be done online, hassle-free. The accreditation will boost your credibility for your yoga teacher certificate. You’ll also have access to an online community, continued training, and resources. Secondly, if you intend on teaching then get yourself liability insurance. Regardless of where you want to teach in the world, any decent yoga studio or teaching venue will expect you to have it. Perhaps more importantly, being insured means you’ll be protected while teaching. It’s usually a minimal cost and well worth it.

Get going!

If you managed to line up some teaching opportunities before you were officially trained, good for you! However, to gain experience most graduates have to find teaching opportunities as they go along. To get some teaching practice under your belt, consider organizing small classes.  Start with family and friends, and work colleagues, or ask your studio/gym if they’ll contact you when they need a substitute teacher. Always ask your ‘students’ for feedback. The key is to seize teaching opportunities as they arise. The longer you leave it, the harder it will get. You need to practice your sequences, get used to guiding others, and ultimately discover your teaching mojo.

Persist and assist

Alongside trying to get your teaching opportunities, it’s a good idea to assist more experienced teachers as and when you can. This may mean committing to a class for a set period or perhaps you already know of some teachers in your area who will let you assist them in their class from time to time. Ideally, you’ll want to make it a regular commitment while you build your resume and your experience. Assisting allows you to observe an experienced teacher, learn alignment, and pick up teaching tricks. Assisting can also lead to more opportunities to substitute or pick up a class when another instructor leaves. This

Think like a yoga teacher business pro

If you completed your yoga teacher training course to pursue a career in the yoga industry, then you’re going to need to put on your yoga business hat and think about how your passion is also going to pay the bills. When you’re assisting and substituting, pay attention to class fees, as you will need to determine your solo teaching rate. You’ll have to gain a solid understanding of the yoga industry. Research the many ways you can make money as a yoga teacher. Finally, while the thought of networking and sales pitches might not gel with your idea of being a yoga teacher, promoting your teaching services is going to help build your career.

 Build your brand

Once you’re certified, obviously you’ll also need to think about how you’re going to build your brand. Start with setting up a well-designed website. One that showcases why people should sign up for your classes and what you have to offer. Social media can also be a highly effective promotional tool.  It can connect you to potential clients and teaching opportunities. You don’t have to sign up to all platforms immediately; start with what you know and what feels comfortable. As a yoga teacher, you’ll have plenty of content to share: blogs, photos, inspirational quotes – there are countless possibilities. Post content that is of value to your audience. You’ll soon establish yourself as an expert and have budding clients approaching you.

Don’t overlook your own practice

Just because you’re now a qualified teacher doesn’t mean you can forget about your practice. That couldn’t be further from the truth!  Not only do you need to continue developing your abilities and knowledge, but your mat is also likely to remain your sacred space. With the buzz of trying to build your yoga career, you’ll likely want to go there often.

It’s easy to complete your yoga teacher training and then get stuck on what to do next. Make your training count. Get going with these six tips and you’ll soon find yourself taking the next step on your path to a career in yoga. More about 6 TIPS ON WHAT TO DO AFTER YOU COMPLETE YOUR YTT wait for the next part.

Yoga Nidra also known as sleepless sleep is the correct name for a form of yoga that is often referred to as yogic sleep. It is a yoga practice that offers the finest physical and spiritual benefits and is not difficult to learn. This article will teach you more about the practice so that you can explore it for yourself. Further about YOGA NIDRA AND ITS BENEFITS

Savasana Pose (Corpse Pose)

To begin your Yoga Nidra journey, you first need to assume the corpse pose or Shavasana as it is known in Sanskrit. This is lying flat on the floor on your back, with your hands resting in a relaxed position at the sides of the body. Do not try and hold or pose your arms simply let them fall away from you. If you need to place a thin blanket under your head to make it more comfortable that is fine, a yoga mat makes the floor a little more forgiving. As you do not want to get cold, you may also want to cover the body with a blanket. If you cannot manage to lie on the floor, you can practice Yoga Nidra in a seated position or failing that then use a bed to support your body.

Totally Relax & Listen

The process of Yoga Nidra involves quietening the mind and listening to the inner voice. It is a process of inner exploration, and you need to guard against allowing the inner chatter to distract you. Be sure that your mind is quiet and allow your focus to take a journey. It doesn’t matter if you fall asleep as the unconscious mind will still gain from the practice. Your guide, whether you are in a class or listening to a recorded meditation is there to help you keep your mind in focus, but you might not even hear parts of it as you go deeper into meditation. This is also fine. You can use any length of meditation that fits your time schedule if you are practicing at home but remember the importance of this time is so precious you should guard against squeezing in five minutes as opposed to bumping something less important so you can spend an hour on your Yoga Nidra.

Open Mind & Feel the Nature

You may be surprised by what you can learn about yourself and what comes up when you start the practice of Yoga Nidra. It is a very safe space, and the brain is more likely to relax and allow the subconscious to release things, or tackle issues that have been causing stress. In other cases, the benefit simply comes from the profound sense of relaxation and the healing that takes place when the body is allowed to transcend into this space. It is like unplugging the mind from the mainframe computer of life and taking this break to escape the constant barrage of information that comes from modern life. The more you practice Yoga Nidra, the more your mind will learn to be disassociated from stress when it is happening which is also much healthier.

Talking about The Ten Living Principles: The first limb or the yamas, consists of characteristics observed and codified by wise people since the beginning of time as being central to any life lived in freedom. They are mostly concerned with how we use our energy in our relationship with others and, in a subtler sense, our relationship with ourselves.

The sages recognized that stealing from your neighbor was likely to promote discord, lying to your wife would cause suffering, and violence begets more violence; the result is hardly conducive to living a peaceful life.

The second limb, the niyamas, constitutes a code for living in a way that fosters the soulfulness of the individual and has to do with the choices we make. The yamas and niyamas are emphatic descriptions of what we are when we are fundamental nature is compassionate, generous, honest, and peaceful.

In the West, we are taught from an early age that what we do and what we own are the sole components for measuring whether we are successful.” We measure our success and that of others through this limited vantage point, judging and dismissing anything that falls outside these narrow parameters. What yoga teaches us is that who we are constitute the ultimate proof of a life lived in freedom. If you do not truly believe this, it is likely that you will measure success in your yoga practice through the achievement of external forms.

How we speak, how we treat others, and how we live are more subjective qualities and attributes we need to learn to recognize in ourselves as a testament to our own progress and as a gauge of authenticity in our potential teachers. When we remain committed to our most deeply held values we can begin to discern the differences between the appearance of achievement and the true experiences of transformation, thereby freeing ourselves to pursue those things of real value.

Short intro for What is Yoga ?

What is Yoga? Yoga is a technology for arriving at this moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia so that we can remember all that we already know. It is a way of remembering our true nature, which is essentially joyful and peaceful. Developed as a pragmatic science by ancient seers centuries ago, yoga is a practice that any person, regardless of age, sex, race, or religious belief, can use to realize her full potential.

Yoga is a means of staying in intimate communication with the formative core matrix of yourself and those forces that serve to bind all living beings together. As you establish and sustain this intimate communication, this state of equanimity becomes the core of your experience rather than the rare exception.

Through observing nature and through intense self-observation and inquiry, the ancient yogis were able to codify the conditions that must be present to realize our intrinsic wholeness. Although such realization can occur spontaneously, more often than not it is the result of a sustained commitment to practice over a lifetime. This is not to imply that yoga is a goal that strives toward, or that there is some kind of chronological progression toward self-improvement Rather it is recognition that each individual can achieve understanding only through his exploration and discovery, that all of life is a continual process of refinement which allows us to see more clearly.