Survival 101 for the 21st Century Yoga Teacher

You LOVE yoga. You immensely dislike your office job, maybe?

So you took a yoga teacher training … maybe a few of them, and thought you’ll be able to make a living out of it. 

Well, it’s not that easy when there are a few other thousand yoga teachers in your city.

I come from a small country with lots of people living in a small place. If you offer the same product as everyone else, you get swallowed in the crowd. To be noticed you have to be different.

It is the same with teaching yoga. To be successful, to be a yoga superstar, you have to stand out! 

What can you do that no one else can? What will make people choose you over all of the other yoga options in town? What will make them go WOW? How can you reinvent yoga in a unique way that is totally you?

I suggest that you start from where you already are. 

What are your passions? What are you really good at? What have you been working on already for your whole life that has made you who you are today? 

You don’t need to forget about all of those hours and days and years and sweat and blood you put into your “old” passions when you shift into teaching yoga. Life is an evolution rather than a revolution, and everything you will build from here on has, in one way or another, its foundation on what you have achieved in your past.

 

Combining your passions is a great way to come up with something new… 

  • You have been a DJ – Create Yoga Parties with live audio/video effects. Super fun!
  • You have played the guitar or harp or didgeridoo – Let yourself shine and play your instrument during relaxation in your class. People will come back again and again for that!
  • You love chocolate – Feed your students chocolate between poses and teach them how to meditate and reach ecstasy by discovering and diving into those intense flavours.
  • You have been a dancer for your whole life - Bring it on! Freestyle dancing is the perfect balance for the rigid movements of yoga.
  • You have studied medicine for the past 5 years before you decided to convert to being a yoga teacher – Teach your yoga students about the amazing magic that is happening in their body while doing yoga. Make it interactive and fun!
  • You are an accountant or lawyer or whatever other serious things – You must know how stressful it is to have such a job; use your experience to share something special with the world!
  • You have always been good at inventing and building stuff, maybe you are even a carpenter or an engineer – Create and build new and amazing yoga props and fill your yoga studio with them… maybe even call it The Yoga Inquisition!
  • With a bit of imagination, the sky is the limit!

The possibilities are endless and this is how people came up with ideas like Baby Yoga, Pre/Post Natal Yoga, Partner Yoga, Senior Yoga, Aqua Yoga (yoga in the water), yoga and weight lifting, Doga (yoga with your dog), yoga and knitting, yoga on exercise balls, Yoga Fight Club (yoga and martial arts), Yoga Canvas and Cabernet (yoga, painting and wine drinking), Yoga for Surfers, Yoga for Golfers, Equestrian Yoga (yoga on a horseback), Naked Yoga, Acro Yoga, Circus Yoga, Aerial Yoga (yoga suspended from the ceiling by straps)… and there are many many more!

Look, yoga is not set in stone! It has been evolving since ever. Even if you took a very “traditional” yoga teacher training, it had very little in it that was called yoga a hundred years ago.


Don’t be like everyone else! Have some style! Dare! Live a little! Experiment!


Don’t be boring!!! Be a bit crazy! Be yourself! Think outside the yoga box! I can’t wait to see what you will come up with!!!

Also... Think about what do people really need and want? They want to be healthy and fit… But they also want to feel alive! They want to have fun! They want to interact, socialize and play! They want to learn something new… maybe about themselves. What can you give them that they can take back into their lives?

More than anything, people want to be happy. So this is your new job description as a yoga teacher: MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY! Can you do that? I know you can!

You are the future of yoga! We (the old folks of yoga) don’t want you to be an exact copy of us… we want you to be YOU! 

We believe in you! 

Amaze us please!


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MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE WITH YOGA AND MINDFULNESS

Rainbow Yoga trained more than 30,000 Kids Yoga Teachers since 2007. We make yoga fun for children and young people of all age groups and for the whole family too! Our yoga consists of many poses and stretches that have different physical benefits for our health and well-being, breathing, relaxation, meditation and mindfulness exercises for our minds, and social interaction, playfulness, meaning, deep life lessons and fun for our spirit.

Thinking about the impact of all those amazing certified yoga teachers, educators, parents and therapists we have trained to teach yoga to children and yoga for teens; we are making a huge difference for the next generation bringing peace, love, kindness and resilience into their lives. Education departments, schools, health programs and individuals in many countries have adopted yoga as a form of exercise and a method to decrees stress and increase wellbeing. We are the biggest and most-loved kid’s yoga teacher training in the world and we are here tp provide you with everything you will need to teach successful, exciting, meaningful, engaging and fun yoga to children, teenagers and families.

THE BEST ONLINE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING – LEARN TOOLS TO HELP KIDS AND FAMILIES FIND CONNECTION, RELEASE STRESS, INCREASE RESILIENCE AND BRING ON A SENSE OF WELL BEING AND MENTAL BALANCE

Rainbow Kids Yoga offers the most comprehensive, practical, and engaging children yoga teacher training certification in the world! Our course will enable you to deliver children yoga classes that will connects your students to themselves, each other, and the environment. Through unique and engaging practices of mindfulness and yoga your students and community will be able to find connections, enhance well-being and thrive as grounded, integrated and well balanced individuals.

At our training, all while having fun, you will become a children yoga instructor through a lot of experiential practice, insightful theory, yoga poses and sequences, mindfulness practices and relaxation. You will learn how to build fun, engaging, and fitness-level-appropriate children yoga classes for all ages, from toddlers to teenagers. At our kid’s yoga teacher training you will find over 300 videos presenting how to make yoga poses accessible and fun! Believe it or not, yoga can be extremely boring for children and for adults too… In Rainbow Yoga, we make yoga in a fun so that children learn easily and want to do more of it. Yoga is so good for you, but for children to want to want to do yoga you will need to learn to spice it all up and this is what our kid’s yoga online teacher training is for!

This is the perfect resource for yoga teachers, parents, educators and therapists to find and discover hundreds of yoga poses, yoga games and mindfulness practices for children in a way that makes it is easy to learn and easy to enjoy.

Yoga poses for kids: Yoga encourages a positive and healthy lifestyle for the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of children as it helps in the development of strength, stamina, and endurance, high levels of positive energy, resilience, focus, self-awareness, and awareness of our environment.

Yoga for children empowers them with increased concentration, calm, peace, and contentment at a mental level leading to inner and outer peace and harmony. The Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Training includes a digital manual (a hard copy that can be purchased) as part of the course. This is specialized online yoga teacher training. Here we will focus on how to teach yoga to children and teens, and how to help them release stress, relax, stretch, energize – All in creative and fun ways while taking into consideration their unique needs, whether they are physical, social, mental, or emotional. 

You will learn to teach the youngest yogis and those with emotional and mental challenges techniques to assist them with impulse control and self-regulation. Our courses provide a platform and a foundation to promote the healthy development of the hearts, bodies, and minds of young individuals.

The Rainbow Kids Yoga Training is the largest and most well-regarded Kids Yoga Teacher Training in the world. Our graduates teach everywhere using our diploma including schools, kindergartens, daycare centers, early learning centers, Yoga studios, gyms, fitness centers, birthday parties, private and group classes and more.

 

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Join our Yoga Revolution and become a kids’ yoga teacher today through our online yoga teacher training or in-person yoga certification courses. You will be left with a smile on your face, a wealth of knowledge and an ignited spirit to spread the love and joy of yoga.

For our online training, you can allow 24 hours to receive your access and for physical products such as the Rainbow Kids Yoga Book, you can allow 2-4 weeks to receive it by mail. The books are printed on demand before being shipped, but it is worth the wait 😊

HISTORY OF RAINBOW YOGA

Rainbow Yoga is a fun and constantly evolving family mission and lovingly born in 2007, to give people the tools to teach fun, engaging, and creative in=person and online yoga classes for kids, teens, families, partners, and communities. Rainbow Yoga is interactive and social and all about connection; we touch, hug, move, breathe and co-create together our yoga magically and playfully.

Rainbow Yoga offers a variety of unique and comprehensive teacher training certification courses all over the world offering a well-rounded, in-depth learning experience through a combination of play, practical theory, and fun.The Rainbow Yoga Teacher training is renowned for being captivating, dynamic, loving, and life changing. It is condensed with a lifetime of knowledge and hands-on experience from the Founders of Rainbow Yoga, Gopala, and Angel Yaffa. Delivered by world-class faculty around the world.