The more serious you are about creating an income by teaching yoga, the more you will attract teaching opportunities. You can make $100 a month or $10,000 a month. You can teach yoga as a hobby, part-time OR full-time So…here’s what I’ve learned so far on this incredible journey as a corporate yoga teacher: 1. If you want to provide a sustainable income for yourself as a corporate yoga teacher and you live in a large city of at least 60,000 people, you can build a team of teachers that extends beyond just yourself, similar to how a yoga studio owner would not teach all of their studio’s classes. It is, and that’s what I love about teaching yoga in offices. I mean, wouldn’t it be nice to just teach two or three yoga classes a day and make a 5 or even 6 figure yearly income? Is that even possible, you might be asking? I wondered the same thing. So here I was – brand new instructor, excited to teach, BUT not interested in burning myself out and teaching five classes a day, 6 days a week. Within a few months, I had completed my teacher training, quit my job and started a corporate yoga company. 10 seconds into my very first class I had chills going up and down my spine. On the suggestion of a friend, I went to a yoga class one day. Back in 2003, I had an office job that was boring and barely paid above minimum wage. I’ll make it brief, but I would love to share my story with you. Why did I become a yoga teacher, by the way? Let’s travel back in time. We don’t start teaching yoga to get rich anyway. I mean, most of us yoga teachers know that teaching yoga is not the easiest way to make a living and sometimes the pay is, well, crap. Most of the people who suggested I should keep my job and teach yoga part-time on the side were actually yoga teachers! To be fair, they meant well – some of them didn’t earn enough to pay the bills. “I quickly learned that I had to become my own cheerleader.” I quickly learned that I had to become my own cheerleader. I went between feelings of “I’m so excited to do this” to “What the heck was I thinking?” but I was hoping other people would at least cheer me on and encourage me. To be honest, I was downright terrified to take the plunge into teaching yoga and leave my job. And my mom said she just wanted me to be happy (which I wasn’t when I was a journalist). Some people just gave me “that look” – you know, the “What can you possibly be thinking? LOOK”. When I quit my office job 15 years ago and became a full-time yoga teacher, everyone told me I was nuts. Teaching Corporate Yoga is an ongoing series for yoga teachers who would like to teach yoga in offices.
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