I’m gearing up to teach my Yoga Nidra teacher training which kicks off this weekend. One of the things you’ll learn is something that other programs purposely don’t teach you. What I include in my curriculum is not only how to teach effectively and from the power of your own voice, but also how to make a great living as a teacher, because knowing what to teach and being a successful teacher are very different things. I’ll teach how to become a successful teacher.
Let me share with you an unfortunate truth about the yoga industry. Most yoga and Yoga Nidra teacher training courses contain little or no information about how to be a successful teacher, often because the lead trainer is a “yoga rockstar” and does not teach in the community—they simply can’t relate to most of us who are out there every day teaching in our communities. What’s worse is that many teachers directing teacher trainings don’t want their teachers to know this stuff for fear of having to compete with their students for gigs. They don’t give their teachers in training the information to succeed as teachers which seems to imply that if you know how to lead sun salutations, ujjayi breath, and have the right intentions, good yoga gigs will magically manifest for you overnight. It just doesn’t work like that and sadly, the result is that waaaay too many new teachers never get the chance to start teaching because they were never taught how to acquire good gigs. As someone who has graduated hundreds of yoga and Yoga Nidra teachers, and who has been in the industry for 20 years, I see the stark—and frankly unfair— gap between new teachers and experienced teachers in their ability to generate well-paying teaching opportunities in communities, the workplace, and online.
I have a wildly different approach. My many years teaching yoga and Yoga Nidra has shown me over and over again that there are far more good-paying teaching opportunities than there are teachers to teach them. My experience has taught me how to make an excellent living teaching yoga and Yoga Nidra (I earn 6 figures a year) and I want to show you how to do this, or better.
I’ve designed this training to teach you the industry secrets to help you begin to earn money right away doing what you love. Allow me to debunk the myth that you have to be a “yoga rockstar'' to be a successful teacher. You don’t.
In this course, you’ll learn exactly how to acquire and create great paying teaching opportunities, including:
Public and online classes, workshops, and courses
Private students and groups, including Yoga Nidra dyads
Yoga and meditation retreats
Teaching corporations and institutions
Paid speaking events
Creating digital products to earn passive income
This training is an investment in your own body/mind/spirit wellness, one that will teach you to become an expert Yoga Nidra teacher, and one that will teach you how to make this training pay for itself and then continue to pay you for many years to come.
I also offer mentor programs for existing teachers (or frankly anyone with a side hustle) to build for themselves what I call their Mechanism of Influence, how to make a global impact while also making a great living.
Last year, a yoga teacher reached out to me during the worst part of the pandemic. She was a single mom and a yoga teacher who was suffering desperately from a lack of work during the pandemic. Teaching yoga is her primary mode of employment and the yoga studio she was working with closed down permanently because of COVID. She desperately wanted to learn how to make a good enough living to provide for herself and her daughter during the pandemic and beyond. We worked closely together for about 8 weeks and I taught her how to build a basic but functional mechanism that eventually allowed her teaching to make a massive impact while also paying her what she’s worth. Because of our work together, she has been making an extra 5k/mo, getting tons of new clients, and spends MORE time with her little girl. She’s finally offering all those wonderful classes, workshops, courses, she’s always wanted to teach. She’s gaining tons of new clients who are discovering her from all over the world. She called me in tears the other day and told me that she’s now making enough money that she could finally move out of her crappy apartment in a sketchy part of town so she and her daughter can feel safe and comfortable in what she’s calling her dream apartment. She’s making a big impact while also making a great living.
Of course she did all the work and I’m very proud of her for that. She simply needed to be pointed in the right direction, get the right information, and know the best way to apply her efforts.
If you’re interested in learning how to create your own Mechanism of Influence and/or learning to teach Yoga Nidra like a boss, click on the link below to either enroll in my Yoga Nidra training happening this weekend and the next, or schedule a call to discuss a mentor program.
Yoga Teacher Mentor Program
Make a massive impact on the world while making a great living doing what you love.