Sytera Field found yoga after an accident, and after having a profound healing experience, she decided that she wanted to teach. On this episode, Sytera shares her journey as a yoga teacher – briefly running a yoga studio out of her home, teaching as many classes a week as she could, and how she ultimately become a teacher of private yoga.
Sytera shares her advice to becoming a private yoga teacher, how she has been successful + tips and tricks for new yoga teachers. She also shares about her other endeavors, including running retreats, teacher trainings + creating videos online.
Enjoy!
Business Lessons:
- Look at what’s happening right in front of you, and not always looking just from the textbook
- Sometimes you need to look at a pose with a creative pose, instead of just looking at how it was traditionally done
- Teach as much as you can as a new teacher
- Explore with your sequences, and find new ways to get into poses
- Encourage people to feel the places where they are tight and tense, and then help them to loosen them
- Private yoga can be rewarding + financially fruitful
- Owning a yoga studio can be one of those things that we romanticize – it’s actually a lot of work!
- Sometimes the best yoga studios are run by people who have nothing to do with yoga
- It’s important to be on the same page as the teachers + studio owners that you work with
- You only have so much energy, and you need to choose where you are going to expend your energy
- Working one on one with the body is a great experience as a teacher
- Don’t give up your group classes – they are a great way to meet new private clients
- Get off your mat + offer adjustments to students in your class to let them know that you want to teach them, and not simply lead them
- Show your students that you are there for them!
- Teach to real people – understand what’s happening in the average person’s body
- Teach as much as you can in all types of venues to get as much experience as you can
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
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