6 Tips for New YogaTeachers: Yoga Teaching Tips with Rachel

You've just completed your 200 or 500 hour training. How exciting! And what comes next?? In this video, I offer 6 tips as you embark on your yoga adventure to help keep you on track.
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[@joelschaefer1326]

As a new yoga teacher (1 year +), Rachel’s tips are spot on. It is especially important to focus on improving one thing at a time and self assessment. Being honest with ourselves, trying new things, stepping into areas of discomfort and giving ourselves permission to make mistakes is how we grow. After completing 200 hours of training I sought out an opportunity to teach and have found that the process significantly enhances my personal practice. And what I enjoy from my personal practice, I incorporate in my classes. It becomes a virtuous circle. Thank you for spelling this out so well. Namaste 🕉💚🙏💚

[@RachelScottYoga]

Thank you Joel!! This is a great share 💛💛💛

[@prescilacasana4497]

Many thanks Teacher Rachel for all the tips it's really big help for my new journey as yoga teacher.❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

[@RachelScottYoga]

Awesome Prescila 🤍

[@user-vu7zx6yn4l]

Super tips thank you

[@RachelScottYoga]

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[@jessicaryan6514]

Rachel I CANNOT thank you enough!!! You are my saving grace! I wish you could be my mentor! I am about to graduate an online 200hr YTT & just don’t feel ready. I have been watching countless videos to try to learn anything I can to feel more comfortable & make the necessary connections I still feel are needed. I came across your videos recently & am just so grateful!!! You are just a wealth of knowledge & really love what you do which really shows!! I have a job lined up as my friend is opening a studio & asked me to be a yoga teacher. I had no experience with yoga prior. The studio is opening soon & I am actually terrified. I can say I have come to truly love yoga & want to be able to give it away to my community. I am therefore just continuing to push through. Thank you again so very much! ❤🧘‍♀️💫

[@RachelScottYoga]

Jessica! It is great to hear from you and I think that a lot of watchers in this community will absolutely resonate with your experience! What I like to share with my own grads: be of service. Simply share what you know, and be of service to the students. You don't need to know everything in order to teach something. And your clear commitment to the practice tells me that you will have lots of good things to share with your students! We never feel ready to teach when we start...through teaching, we start to feel ready :) And the good news ~ you can study with me! LOL Keep an eye out for my online classes and sequencing mentorship. I also teach continuing education retreats for teachers if the right opportunity ever arises. But til then, it's great to connect with you here!

[@jessicaryan6514]

@@RachelScottYoga you Rock! Thanks so much for your super awesome positive helpful response! Wow that means so much to me! I will simply share what I know & be of service ❤️🙏 I will be on the lookout for the mentorship program!! Thanks again. Sending you love & light 💫

[@1960genius]

You give such great information! I appreciate you very much ❤

[@RachelScottYoga]

Awesome to have you here, Tina!😍

[@vukasika]

As always, thank you for sharing this. Definitely on my mentor list. 🙏🏾

[@RachelScottYoga]

💛💛great to have you here, Keith!!

[@JJK-mq9wv]

You are my mentor, love your passion and knowledge...thank you for sharing xxx

[@RachelScottYoga]

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[@cledb]

Love hearing from you Rachel❤. I’m almost finished with my 200hr YTT, this is something I’ll keep coming back to. Thank you thank you thank you🙏 🙏🙏

[@RachelScottYoga]

Yay!!! So happy to have you here!!😀

[@cledb]

@@RachelScottYoga ❤️❤️❤️

[@keleeobrien.]

Great tips! Thank you Rachel!! 🙂

[@RachelScottYoga]

My pleasure Kelee!! :)

[@debramcgonnell3631]

As a teacher of yoga for over twenty years, your tips still ring true for me. Thanks!❤

[@RachelScottYoga]

Nice to connect with you here Debra!

[@kaijrix]

Ty for sharing your knowledge. A great help

[@RachelScottYoga]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@lauinesjunges]

Thanks ❤️ (This is the first video I see from this channel) I've been practicing for several years, I became an instructor... and I hid myself! I've done some classes here and there... but not much. It really helped me watching this video, I liked and suscribed!

[@RachelScottYoga]

Hi Laura! It is SO tempting to hide at first when we start teaching :) Great to have you here, welcome to the community!

[@katarinajurcic1305]

Thank you for sharing! 🙏🏻

[@RachelScottYoga]

🙏🏻my pleasure Katarina!

[@annasternfeldt6031]

Very good advice. I am at the end of yoga teacher training course and I have started to teach two friends and that is where I learn most I have to say, so you are right about get out and teach.

[@RachelScottYoga]

💪🏻😁good for you for doing that! I think so many new graduates feel timid about sharing, but it’s the best way to learn 👍🏻

[@lorihoben8029]

I just came across one of your videos today. The sutras of Patanjali, your explanation is so awesome. I'm so glad I found you. You are going to be such an inspiration as well as a teacher as I continue on my journey of becoming a yoga instructor. Thank you so much❤

[@RachelScottYoga]

Aw thx for kind words Lori! So happy this is helpful 😄 And great to connect with you here!

[@user-de8gr3vi5i]

Great tips here thanks Rachel. 👍

[@RachelScottYoga]

Thanks Nic! Nice to connect here 🥰

[@uteburragekruse9767]

Very good advice, thank you!

[@RachelScottYoga]

My pleasure Ute ;)

[@RPIXELN]

You definetely are one of my mentors!

[@RachelScottYoga]

🤗💛

[@Starr_Baker]

Thank you!❤

[@RachelScottYoga]

My pleasure 🥰🙏🏻

[@annika8488]

Rachel, thank you so much. I love your energy and those were some awesome tips. I finished my 200h YTT in India three weeks ago and start teaching a paid class today! I feel like I'm jumping into cold water but it feels good to hear that you recommend that. I guess I can only get better while teaching!

[@RachelScottYoga]

Yes!!!!! The water will just get nicer ☀️☀️☀️ way to go!! 💪🏻💪🏻

[@leehown2008]

i started to have my students on last aug - sometimes i confessed ... what i should be ... Be a yoga teacher ( i feel good when i am teaching ) but it cannot support my living ... now i know Be patient! yoga shouldn't be my life - i am still interesting in learning Iyengar; anatomy .... thanks Rachel you are always my mentor

[@RachelScottYoga]

💛💛💛💛 keep up your beautiful, heartfelt work!! One step at a time 💛

[@drallyromerodpt]

This is great!

[@RachelScottYoga]

Nice to have you here Allison! :)

[@Sunny-ov5zw]

Greetings from South Korea! Thank you so much for sharing things for us 🙏🫶🏼 As a super duper new baby teacher, your tips and every video have helped me a lot.. I’ve finished 500hours but still feels like not ready yet but yes, keep learning and practicing but not in a rush, should be patient more for this journey🙏 being more confident to make mistakes .. Sending tons of gratitude and love and lights 💗

[@RachelScottYoga]

Hi Sunny! Great to connect with you, and I am so glad that this is helpful on your yoga journey! And I think it’s good for all of us to feel like beginners 😄😄😄Congratulations on completing your 500 hours ~ what a beautiful beginning! 💫💫

[@ahujakishori5618]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[@RachelScottYoga]

My pleasure!

[@soft-yoga-with-domi]

Thank you so much Rachel! I really love your tips! I am a new yoga teacher myself, despite spending almost 4 years on various trainings only now I got the courage to start teaching :) thank you 🙏

[@RachelScottYoga]

I'm so glad they're helpful 🤍 Great to connect with you here! And congratulations on your journey into teaching ~ as the motto for my first YTT went, "Learn to teach, teach to learn," ~ the journey is never ending!

[@soft-yoga-with-domi]

@@RachelScottYoga Oh, that's beautiful, thank you 💚

[@shawnatraill7927]

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[@sanne7421]

I'm a relatively new yogi, been going to yoga consistently for a year and this is of course further out but I was wondering how many years of experience would you need under your belt to start teacher training?

[@RachelScottYoga]

Hi Sanne! To take a YTT? I think you can really take it anytime. It's a great way to set a solid foundation for your practice and an excellent way to dive deeper into the tradition :) Also, I don't happen to think that yoga is about doing exotic asana...so I'm less inclined to think that you need to have a certain level of practice expertise. A sincere desire to learn is the best prerequisite :)

[@rhondastarotreadings5115]

What is the name of your big yellow book? Sutras

[@natalie-obrien]

Hi can you recommend how i can find a mentor as i am new and still learning

[@RachelScottYoga]

Are there local teachers you admire?

[@Eyeamthewitness]

How can you be an “okay” yoga teacher and get a job at a studio?

[@RachelScottYoga]

Everyone starts as an unskilled teacher, then through practice becomes an "okay" yoga teacher, and then eventually through practice and dedication becomes an excellent yoga teacher. No one can be an excellent teacher off the bat. You get a job the same as everyone else: do your best and work for improvement. And every market is also different (gyms ancd community centers may be easier to get work at at first than an established studio). Practice and all is coming!

[@RhiWildeupgrade]

How do you handle it when a student farts? Say nothing? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thank you so much!

[@RachelScottYoga]

Totally depends on situation and the class tone. You might say nothing at all ~ or if the class is giggly about it and the fart simply can't be missed, say something like, "yoga really gets the apana moving." I always find laughter and normalization is good medicine!