Maybe you’ve just finished your 200-hour YTT and are interested in teaching somewhere exotic. Yoga Instructor Job at Resorts
There’s something special about building community in your hometown, but there’s something ultra special about spreading your knowledge and teaching gifts to different pockets of the world. Especially if it’s a place you’ve never been but have always wanted to visit, traveling somewhere with the intention of teaching yoga is one of the most beautiful ways to experience a new place, a new culture, a new language, and cultivate a new community.
If this sounds like something you’d like to experience and if you’re curious to know how to go about teaching internationally, here are a few of my best tips for you:
Move into Fear
The very first and most important thing for you to do is move into fear. The only thing that might be holding you back from leaving where you currently are and entering new territory is because you’re too comfortable. they finish their 200hr teacher training, and it takes them years to finally start teaching.
How to search for international jobs
So, now you’ve decided to move out of your comfort zone. Congratulations! The next step in teaching yoga abroad is obvious, finding a job. Luckily, there are loads of online resources to help you do just this.
There are so many opportunities for a yoga instructor job at resorts, and you will feel (joyfully) overwhelmed with all of the fantastic places you could potentially teach at. The deal is usually ‘trade’ work, so you get free accommodation and food in exchange for a class a day. But the deal is different from every organization, and it just depends on what you negotiate with the person hiring you. There are also many paid opportunities listed.
Facebook groups:
Another great way to find jobs is through different Facebook groups. There is a great group ‘Yoga Jobs Around The World’, with lots of information and job listings daily.
Market yourself and build a personal brand
Now you’ve applied for the job — but how do you land the said job, especially if you’re a new teacher without experience? Well, you can start by learning how to market yourself and start establishing yourself as an authority within the yoga space. One way you can do this is by promoting your knowledge and expertise in yoga.
Own your title as a Yoga Teacher
Teaching yoga isn’t something you ‘do’. It’s something you ‘are’. Even if you’re not currently teaching yoga. This will put the energy out into the world that you are a yoga teacher, and what you start to powerfully claim as true, the universe will respond and give you back that exact thing. Plus, letting people know you’re a yoga teacher will get the word out there – you never know when your name could be passed or mentioned as a qualified yoga teacher, and the perfect teaching opportunity could present itself to you just from word of mouth.
When people ask you what you do, tell them, ‘I’m a yoga teacher” — WITHOUT any hesitation. As you become confident in claiming this as a part of who you are, the universe will respond vibrationally by also seeing this as a part of who you are, and this is when you’ll start to attract relevant opportunities into your life.
Promoting your classes
Now let’s say you’ve landed the said job. Congratulations! But — how do you capitalize even more on the opportunity, not just monetarily, but experientially? Well, you want as many people in your classes as possible, so you can start building a following, a presence, and have more bodies in your classroom to serve! How do we get more people? Again — excellent marketing skills. Wherever your new yoga job is, go explore the town. Invite people to the local coffee shop or the local fruit market. Create events on Facebook, and search through your location on Instagram to find people in the area, and reach out to them personally. Create posters or fliers, and hang them around town. You’re in a new location and have the wonderful opportunity of not knowing a soul, so it’s essential to put yourself out there.
Just do it!
Lastly, my encouragement is to get yourself out there and do it. Even if you don’t land a job yet, oftentimes you can show up at your desired place and search for yoga jobs in person. (It really works!). Yoga is rapidly growing in popularity, and almost every place (especially in tourist locations) is looking for yoga classes and instructors. Even if you’re teaching donation-based classes on the beach or in a park, if you’re determined to teach yoga internationally, it can be done.
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