Tuesday 30 September 2014

Perks of Being a Yoga Teacher

People have always been advising to choose something that you love to do as your profession. And when your passion becomes your work, then the challenges at work are no longer ‘problems’ but only the stepping stones. While any kind of work can give satisfaction, if it is what you like to do, but taking up yoga teaching as a profession has a whole lot of benefits to it. Let’s discuss some perks of being a yoga teacher.

Job Satisfaction

As a yoga practitioner you come to know whether the path leads you further or not. And if it does, then you know that becoming a yoga teacher is the right thing for you, because it is something that you love to do. Besides, according to a survey professionals in the fitness and health industry have the highest job satisfaction of 85%.

A Chance to Help Others

As a yoga teacher, your job is not only to teach others a handful of physical poses, but also to help them in overcoming their life’s problems. Helping others inevitably makes you feel good about yourself, as well as enhances the job satisfaction.

Become Healthier

Becoming a yoga teacher, whether full-time or part-time, allows you to practice yoga more. Needless to mention endless benefits of yoga, as you do more of it you start to have more control over your life.

No Shortage of Work

Yoga isn’t a fashion that will remain in hype for a limited period of time. People are going to keep learning yoga as long as it benefits them, which is always. So, unlike other professions, there is no downtime in yoga teaching. In addition, whichever part of the world you want to go and live, you will always get many opportunities as yoga teacher. In fact, many yoga teachers start teaching yoga at their native places, then roam around the world to give yoga lessons. Many yoga teachers also go back to teach at the yoga institutes where they took the teaching course. Yoga retreats in Rishikesh, Goa, Bali, and Dharamshala are most popular among travelling yoga teachers.

Continue Your Work and Education

As mentioned above, you can be a full-time or part-time yoga teacher. Therefore, as a part-time yoga teacher, you can easily continue your primary profession or other works. Even as a full-time yoga teacher you have plenty of time that you can spend on your education or in simply learning more about yoga.

Freedom in Life

As a yoga teacher, you are self-employed, which is enough to say that you have plenty of work freedom. You have the freedom of scheduling the classes, which allows you to spend more time with your family and to handle your personal matters.

Success in Life

Yoga teachers don’t  run after corporate success. Although, plenty of yoga teachers manage to establish their own yoga studios, but their primary goal is always to spread the awareness about yoga. The real success in life is having the chance to do your work honestly, remain healthy and happy in life and helping others in doing the same, for which yoga is your best option.

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