Teaching yoga is so much harder than it looks!
I was pretty confident at the beginning of the training that I would be able to do this. Now that I have learned so much, I feel a lot more pressure when I am teaching it. It is a big responsibility, to the students who I will be instructing. I have been practicing teaching to friends and the other trainees, and lately my confidence has been down. I just feel like I get choked up- all of this information is gushing through my brain and I can't even make the words come out of my mouth.
I know that all I need to do is to keep on pushing. The more I teach, the easier it will become. I am sure of this.
One thing that helped me to wrap my head around becoming a teacher was thinking of how musicians strive to become rock stars. They constantly work to be heard because they are passionate about their song. Audiences can tell if the music comes from the musicians heart, and they respond to that. And there are some people who just don't like a certain type of music, so they will not be part of that audience. Which is totally fine. Some people, believe it or not, just don't like music at all!
Similarly, in the yoga world, some yogis will not like how I teach or what I teach. I have to be ready for that. There are so many differences in styles of yoga, and often they do not fit onto the same playlist.
What I do look forward to is finding my audience. I can't wait to meet my first student, who felt my song in their heart, and knew it came from mine.
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