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The Organic Debate

Can Yoga teachers get stressed out?

You sit in a Gentle yoga class with about 10 or 15 people, the music is calm, candles are lit, the room is dim, and the atmosphere is serene. As a Yoga teacher you’ve got a perfect job. Then why is it that so many teacher burn out or stop teaching all together. I have met teachers that have had a complete burn-out and I thought to myself that I will never let it get this far. Wow! Be careful little mouth what you say…After teaching 12 classes week after week for almost 1,5 years the burn out happened to me as well.

Symptoms of a Yoga teacher burn out:

Lack of self practice

Lack of sleep

Irritable with your students

Lack of joy in the class

Heart Palpitations

Very sleepy

Low immunity

Less is truly more, once you feel like you have just overdone it, it is a good time to slow down, perhaps ask another teacher to take some of the classes over for you until your body rested enough, and for you to take some time to re-focus. Sometimes we remain hurried, and continue this kind of fast life style, it is only the fear of being less successful. We think we need to own the whole world, to get our name out there. This fear and hurried life will drain your creativity and your energy. How much easier it is once we slow down, we are able to re-focus, concentrate, and give the students a class to remember. After all they paid a high price to come to your class.

Some suggestions I would like to mention, get a massage once a month, take a Yoga class yourself, buddy up with a yoga partner and talk about concerns (shared worry, is only half the worry), focus on what kind of yoga you like to teach, and live your yoga. Be the example for your students. Enjoy your yoga!