Despite all their efforts aspiring yoga teachers find it difficult to gather the confidence to become a yoga teacher. Becoming a yoga teacher is primarily about finding your inner voice. However, due to this lack of confidence, many practitioners develop some fears. And these fears prevent them from finding their inner voice.
Let’s discuss some of these fears, faced by many aspiring yoga teachers, and see how one can overcome them:
I Don’t Have Enough Experience
With abundance of yoga teachers in almost every corner of the world, it is understandable that new yoga practitioners primarily choose yoga teachers who have enough experience. But beside the experience, students also check whether the teacher is someone who can understand them. While you cannot have the experience when you start, but you can develop the habit of understanding students’ needs and help accordingly, and that will be enough for them to join your class.
I Don’t Know about Many Yoga Poses
If you have developed this notion then you can never be free of it. Yoga has been developed over a period of thousands of years, by thousands or probably millions of sages, yogis and practitioners and its practice comprises countless poses. Therefore, having this feeling that you don’t know enough poses to start teaching is not quite thoughtful. The important thing is to know thoroughly about what you know.
I Don’t Know Enough about Yoga Philosophy
Learning about yoga philosophy is an essential part of yoga training; however, it is not a compulsion. Besides, if you are practicing yoga sincerely then you will be able to unravel the essence of yoga by becoming aware of your being. And what your awareness will teach you is not going to be any different from what is already there in the text.
My Training Isn’t Helping Me in Finding My Inner Voice
Many practitioners develop these feelings because they didn’t get what they had expected from yoga teacher training. They feel that their program isn’t structured well and teachers aren’t providing the necessary insights that they need to find their inner voice. It may be just a feeling, or it may be the reality, but it doesn’t mean that there is no hope.
While instructions have their own importance in leaning the process, however, it is your own practice and dedication towards that process that primarily help you in finding your inner voice. All you have to do is try to understand the deeper meaning every yoga pose and meditate sincerely and the rest will follow.
Joining a renowned yoga retreat in Rishikesh or Dharamshala, in India or other famous yoga hub in the world can help you in overcoming these fears. Most teachers at these retreats are learned yogis who know what fears aspiring yoga teachers have and help them accordingly. Besides, most of these retreats are in the lap of nature that enables practitioners to become more aware of themselves, and this eventually helps them in finding their inner voice.
Let’s discuss some of these fears, faced by many aspiring yoga teachers, and see how one can overcome them:
I Don’t Have Enough Experience
With abundance of yoga teachers in almost every corner of the world, it is understandable that new yoga practitioners primarily choose yoga teachers who have enough experience. But beside the experience, students also check whether the teacher is someone who can understand them. While you cannot have the experience when you start, but you can develop the habit of understanding students’ needs and help accordingly, and that will be enough for them to join your class.
I Don’t Know about Many Yoga Poses
If you have developed this notion then you can never be free of it. Yoga has been developed over a period of thousands of years, by thousands or probably millions of sages, yogis and practitioners and its practice comprises countless poses. Therefore, having this feeling that you don’t know enough poses to start teaching is not quite thoughtful. The important thing is to know thoroughly about what you know.
I Don’t Know Enough about Yoga Philosophy
Learning about yoga philosophy is an essential part of yoga training; however, it is not a compulsion. Besides, if you are practicing yoga sincerely then you will be able to unravel the essence of yoga by becoming aware of your being. And what your awareness will teach you is not going to be any different from what is already there in the text.
My Training Isn’t Helping Me in Finding My Inner Voice
Many practitioners develop these feelings because they didn’t get what they had expected from yoga teacher training. They feel that their program isn’t structured well and teachers aren’t providing the necessary insights that they need to find their inner voice. It may be just a feeling, or it may be the reality, but it doesn’t mean that there is no hope.
While instructions have their own importance in leaning the process, however, it is your own practice and dedication towards that process that primarily help you in finding your inner voice. All you have to do is try to understand the deeper meaning every yoga pose and meditate sincerely and the rest will follow.
Joining a renowned yoga retreat in Rishikesh or Dharamshala, in India or other famous yoga hub in the world can help you in overcoming these fears. Most teachers at these retreats are learned yogis who know what fears aspiring yoga teachers have and help them accordingly. Besides, most of these retreats are in the lap of nature that enables practitioners to become more aware of themselves, and this eventually helps them in finding their inner voice.
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