There are a few steps you have to take before you can start teaching professionally.
Regardless if you are teaching online or in-person, creating a business plan with financial goals is absolutely crucial for every new business – the good part is that it should be more comfortable for an online business than running a physical studio. Learn More about Online Yoga Teaching Jobs!
Also, you can create your own online yoga teaching jobs by making content to nurture your audience and then market and scale your brand so you can find potential students.
Ways to Make Additional Income as a Yoga teacher
Be part of the high-end hotel’s wellness programs
Many luxury hotels offer wellness programs that include yoga classes for their guests. Get in touch with the concierge service office to inquire about any job opportunities. You can also contribute to teaching an on-demand private yoga class to their traveling guests.
Teach private classes
When teaching at various locations (yoga studios, gym, etc.), you will meet many new students and build your regular one. They might ask you to teach them privately, so know your hourly rate and how far you are willing to drive. Teaching private classes is higher income, usually than group classes, and allows you to create your schedule.
Offer lessons to businesses
Many companies now provide yoga lessons as a way to best support their employee’s wellness. Make sure to connect with a few local businesses around you and be one of their reliable and on-staff teachers.
Organize an outdoor class
The beauty of teaching yoga is that you can teach it anywhere. Get creative and hold classes at the beach, in parks, rooftop lounges, empty spaces that are relatively clean; there is no limit! Use social media such as an Instagram account and Facebook groups to establishing yourself and organizing yoga pop-ups wherever you are.
Teach at retreats or yoga centers
Many lead yoga teachers are looking for assistant yoga teachers when leading large groups. This may be a great way to learn the behind the scene for plans of hosting your personal retreat You could reach out to various yoga centers, retreats organizations around the world, and ask if they are hiring or join YogaTrade to see teaching jobs pop up all around the world.
Host your retreats
As you gain confidence in teaching yoga, choosing to organize your retreats will be the logical outcome of becoming a more experienced and well-connected yoga teacher. Our advice is to find a great assistant who is well-organized and can support you with all the logistics associated with running your retreat.
The website BookRetreats.com is a very useful platform to be part of a more extensive network of like-minded people looking to book their retreats.
Offer unique workshops
If you have any particular skills you would like to share with your students, why not create your workshops? It’s a way to supplement your income while combining your talents. Make it as unique as possible, so what you offer is different and attracts students to search for this workshop and position you as an expert in that subject, even if it ends up being Yoga and Chocolate Making!
Teach online classes
Open your horizons by teaching your classes online. Nowadays, distance is no longer a hindrance to reaching more people, with so many online yoga teaching jobs platforms growing in popularity. As a yoga teacher, connect with the platform that resonates most with you and reach out to explore how to be one of their teachers. You can also start your YouTube channel and built your clientele by regularly publishing a new yoga video.
Be patient; it might take time before you can see your work’s financial rewards; however, to this day, YouTubes is still a free channel for you to reach a potentially broad audience.
Create your online training program
Once you feel it’s time to teach a program yourself, you will share your expertise by offering your own teacher training program. It helps to develop one that is Yoga Alliance certified, but you are not limited to it. Again uniqueness is a great seller!
Be a yoga and wellness contributor
Do you love writing? Share your acquired knowledge around yoga philosophy and yoga practice with a broader audience by contacting various online publications and offer your written pieces. It will help build your followers and potentially attract new yoga students.
Create your E-books
Many yoga students need additional support outside of the class. If you are knowledgeable in a few subjects, you can rapidly create short E-books that you can sell online, which will significantly benefit them, while offering you residual income. There are many websites where you can import your text and it will create an ebook for you.
Affiliate programs online
Find quality online products or services that you believe in, find out if they have an affiliate program with them, and refer the company to your students on your IG, website, Facebook, and even giving a direct link to buy. Only do this with company and products, you know, have tried and love, so you stay authentic in your sharing.
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