Real Truths of Being a Yoga Instructor

Teaching yoga, the age old exercise, and mediation technique, is not just about learning yoga asanas. It has much more it. Explore the below-given truths about being a yoga instructor.

Learn Yoga in depth

The practice of yoga is not just about performing asanas or positions. Yoga within itself contains a whole new sphere of enlightenment. It includes 8 attached limbs to itself. These include the "Yama" or the concept of universal mortality, "Niyama" or the concept of personal observances and discipline, "Asanas" or various postures of body, "Pranayama" or the breathing exercises that bring in control the life energy, "Dharana" or adoption and cultivation of inner awareness, "Dhyana" or meditation with devotion divine and "Samadhi" or the perfection of yoga that joins the soul with the divine. If you mastered the art of asanas but have not yet been able to inculcate within you the other aspects of yoga, then you still require a lot of work and practice.

Leading by example and practice

A hatha yoga teacher training program that you might have joined would be over in a few months. It will teach you how to perform the asanas and will also provide you the details of other aspects of yoga and how to practice them. When you take the job of a yoga instructor and teach others how to perform it, then you must have inculcated all the 8 aspects of yoga in your real life. Your mission as a yoga instructor should not be to attain mastery of the asanas but to and enlighten your students. Hence, your students should be able to learn each and every aspect of yoga.

Specialize your yoga training

"Goraksha Samhita", an early text, says that the Lord Shiva performed 1 asana for each 1, 00,000 species and there are 8,400,000 species in all. Hence, there are 84 classic yoga asanas. You should see to it which ones clicks for you.

Find an authentic teacher

Perform and practice yoga with many teachers until you find the one that resonates with you. In many places and schools, yoga education is more about earning money than providing the students with the real knowledge and enlightenment.

Have a business mind

You can get a yoga schools in Rishikesh after performing, practices and learning yoga asanas in some months. You would be also required to spend money on it. When you start instructing yourself, you should remember that you need to cover your expenses too and should also be able to gain some profit from the yoga instructing job. Provide quality education in a comfortable atmosphere so that the students keep coming back and also arrange referral business for you. Do proper advertising and keep the costs reasonable as well. Yoga courses in India flourish through these ways.

Start after calculation

When you start a yoga teaching class, you would be required to invest at least $3000 for preliminary arrangements. See whether you are in a position to do such business or not. Explore other options like teaching in a studio owned by someone else if you lack the finances. There are various ways by which you can earn if you go by the latter method. You may be paid per class, on a monthly remuneration, on the basis of donation received, on teacher-student ratio basis and in other ways.

Yogi Chetan Mahesh Ji, founder secretary is the Indian yoga association is a reputed organization having yoga teachers training school located at Rishikesh, India. Here, you can learn with us beginner’s yoga, intensive yoga and multi-styles of yoga.