For many yoga teachers, one of the biggest challenges in their yoga teaching and yoga business is keeping it fresh.
What do I mean by “keeping it fresh”?
I mean staying alive, vital, fresh as a teacher.
Many yoga teachers and yoga businesses for that matter, get stuck into ruts. They teach the same classes, the same sequencing.
Nothing ever changes.
Of course it is wonderful to perfect your classes, your teaching style and your sequencing. But only to a point.
Even you get bored yourself doing the same thing, teaching the same class over and over.
Eventually boredom sets in and you find yourself in a teaching rut.
Your students know this.
Students can hear it in your voice.
They can see it in your face.
So what is the answer to this?
You need to feed yourself as a teacher and student. You need to nourish yourself with new yoga knowledge.
That way your learning increases. Your learning doesn’t stop. Your thirst for knowledge doesn’t stop.
You learn new things. You change as you learn new things. Your brain changes and stays young as you learn new things.
And yes, that is a scientific, neuroplastic fact!
And when you learn and assimilate all this new yoga knowledge, what can you do with it?
You transmit it to your students of course. This is all transferred into your classes. Be it large or small.
It can be as something as little as learning new nuances about the breath and respiratory system, to new methods of concentration, or to something quite larger such as new sequencing.
It doesn’t really matter what the level is.
What matters is that you as a teacher and as a yoga business stay fresh and this is what is transferred and given to your students.
Your students will feel nourished by this feeding and will feel a great satisfaction for your classes and want to come back for more. Satisfied yogis can only be a good thing for your yoga business.