Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers

This is an example of a fixed mindset. I always ask teachers to take what resonates and leave the rest, but be open to coming back to the information at a later date and see if it resonates then. I would never force a teacher to learn something new because oftentimes when we are presented with new information, We resisted. Or get defensive. Because it might go against the grain of what we already...

 I'm going to talk to you a little bit about how to craft your teaching career. In this episode, we will use an example, start at the big-picture goal and work backwards. By the way, I love starting at big-picture goals!  This episode follows my roadmap to uncover what you want to teach, where you want to teach, how you want to teach, and discover the steps to help you get there. So if you&ap...

Welcome to part one of a three part series on what the yoga teaching career typically looks like. How to create the career you want. And how to identify if you're getting in your own way. Stay tuned to the end of this episode, where I'll give you four questions to ask yourself. And when you do, you'll get a lot clearer on your path as a yoga teacher! Click HERE to send me a text &am...

“I really don’t enjoy what I’m doing every day. I feel like I’m on a hamster wheel and am just going along with the program. Who’s program? I don’t know. I don’t even know if it’s mine. I feel like it just… is. And I want to change that. I want to be teaching what I LOVE and I know everything I’m doing is making me feel excited.”  This is an exact quote from a teacher I’m coaching and I want to wa...

One thing I bet most of us were not very clear about before we started yoga teacher training is that making it a financially lucrative career can be challenging. But we go ahead anyway, likely because of the way yoga has touched our lives, the way it's healed our traumas, or the way the practice makes us feel. In this episode, let's remember some of the reasons why you decided to become...

Hindsight is 20/20, right?!? I think we can all relate to that - whether it’s work-related decisions or in our relationships, both platonic and romantic. “If I could start all over again, what choices would I make knowing what I know now?”  Unfortunately, we don’t have that luxury, BUT you have ME! And these Conversations to give you some insight as to some of the things you should absolutely be d...

“I had no idea it was going to be like this”  “This is overwhelming and I just don’t know if I can do this”  “Everybody else seems to be going through it with ease & I am over here struggling”  I said these exact words to myself when I started my Yoga Teacher Training and I’ve been having conversations with teachers who are in training right now… and they are saying the same.  Because I know w...

Who is Monica Bright? I have been teaching yoga since 2012 in the city of Chicago & have come to love the human body so much that it's important to me to teach sustainable yoga so that students can actually practice for life.  I teach yoga teachers (via mentorship & business coaching) how to cultivate the life they want so that they actually create thriving careers! In years past, I&a...