For Yoga Teachers

In this episode, we answer the question - do you need to teach a new sequence each week?  Let’s have a quick look at the work load for a yoga teacher, just in respect to the actual teach of classes, as in, this isn’t taking in to account doing finances, any legal stuff, admin, etc. this is just in respect to teaching classes!  Teach class Travel to and from the class, or set up and test the equipm...

Introducing philosophy into your asana classes can be overwhelming, how do you do it? When? Should you say the Sanskrit? What if you're not confident pronouncing the Sanskrit? What if you can never remember the Sanskrit? What if you get emotional speaking about a concept that has changed your life? ⁠ There are so many things that can potentially hold us back! ⁠ ⁠ In this episode we take some...

Imagine: Imagine your favourite teacher puts a call out asking for cover, you're able to send your bio straight to them, and they know, you're a great teacher to cover their classes Imagine there's an opening coming  up at a studio you love, and a few teachers get in touch, but you're the one that's able to send your bio straight away, to show the studio that you're a...

In this episode, we're getting organised, looking to January 2022 and how we can make the most of the January 'New Year, New You' chuff, without it being cheesy or slimy, or both.  The reality is, that at the turn of a week, or a month, or a year, motivation is high - or at least higher than normal- so people are more inclined to try something new, to better themselves, to work on s...

Many businesses would absolutely love a way to ensure that their customers were right there, in front of them, on a regular, predictable basis, and one of the many interesting things about being a yoga teacher is that we see our customers regularly.  Now I know you don't think of your yoga students as customers (me neither) - they're people who come to your yoga classes. But, if you allo...

Before we look at how to manage your calendar as efficiently as possible, let's just take a step back. Usually, our journey is something like this. We get in to yoga because  it really helps us to feel our best. We fall in love with it, so much so that we want to deepen our knowledge and possibly share the practice with others. We embark on a teacher training that is - hopefully - full full f...

This episode is part of our mini-series looking at useful resources, and we're focusing on resources for promoting your yoga offering via social media. With promoting your yoga on social media, it can really feel like there's always more to do, like other businesses have got a plan which they're executing perfectly, while you're drafting out a post with one hand while cooking d...

Being a yoga teacher is a wonderful, incredible, life changing job. But it can also be bloody hard work. It’s not all teaching yoga, there’s so much else that comes with the role; managing energy levels, planning classes, promoting your offering, contacting and staying in touch with your students, designing posts for Instagram, managing finances, sending invoices, predicting cash flow, ongoing stu...

Renting a space for yoga - what to consider.  In this episode, we’ll look at everything you need to know, to think about, to consider, when renting a space to teach yoga. This advice stands when renting a space by the hour, or by the class, or renting a space exclusive, month in, month out. This is an accumulation of all the, ermmmm shall we say learnings that I’ve learnt over the past 8 years, ov...

This episode explores what could, and might, happen as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions start to lift in the UK, meaning that in-person classes can take place. Check out the show notes at yogahero.co.uk/podcast7 We'll be looking at what that could mean for live or on-demand virtual classes, for face to face classes and for hybrid offerings. We'll also break down how to decide how you s...

There are so many potential ways to share your yoga, this podcast will look at some of the obvious, and some of the not-so-obvious ways, we'll look at the pros and cons, of each, and then we'll look at how you choose where to focus your time and energy. By the end of the podcast, you'll have a great idea of how to share your yoga in the best way or ways for you; so that you can teac...

In this episode we look at why you would even want to find your yogis in the first place; why it benefits you and your yogis (once you’ve found them!), how to determine who your yogis are, how to reach and connect with them and what to do if you’ve done all that and you’re still struggling.  Knowing who your audience is, can be the difference between between thriving as a yoga teacher, and struggl...

In Podcast 3 we looked at Productivity for a Clear Mind, which covered the methodology created by David Allen in the book Getting Things Done. This podcast is a very practical podcast; covering how to conduct a regular review. David Allen calls it a weekly review, but I find that I rarely do it weekly; I’ll sometimes do it more often or less often, just depending on what’s going on.  This podcast...

Becoming more productive gives you two important things back which many of us are lacking these days: time and mental clarity.  The approach covered in this episode is based on the methodology in the book Getting Things Done, by David Allen. I first stumbled across this book in 2018, which was the year that a) Yoga Hero had our first teacher training course, b) I was overseeing a £100,000 refurbis...

There's a bit of a chicken and egg situation where confidence is concerned... in order to get really confident at something, we need to practice, practice, practice and get experience, yet lacking in confidence might well mean that we don't put ourselves forward to gain that experience needed. So it becomes a bit of a cycle; we lack confidence teaching, so don't put ourselves forwar...

In this episode,  Why pricing is important to your business – (this seems really obvious – but we need to explore that to cover all bases and to get in to the right mindset to be thinking about pricing!). Methods and systems to set pricing for your yoga offering, that are informed and intelligent, rather than picking a figure out of the sky! What to do if your considered pricing strategy isn’t wor...

Get a quick insight in to our Yoga Hero Teachers Podcast. We're on a mission to help yoga teachers teach with passion, earn a fair living and avoid burn out. Being a yoga teacher can be incredible, but it can also be mind-blowingly tough. This podcast is here to help you focus on sharing your passion and knowledge; giving you tools, knowledge and insight to be able to do this without having t...