01/07/2025
5 Hard Truths About Being a Yoga Teacher (That I’m Still Learning…)
After over a decade of teaching, I’m being reminded of these all over again. These truths are humbling, confronting, and deeply human — and they continue to stretch and shape me in the most unexpected ways.
1. Teaching is the teacher.
It will reflect your insecurities, unhealed parts, and hidden fears — not to shame you, but to help you grow. You can’t hide. You have to keep resourcing yourself, keep showing up, and make peace with your own process so you can hold space for others & be of service.
2. You’ll trigger people -
It’s uncomfortable, but teaches discernment. You learn what’s yours and what’s not. Boundaries become sacred. People-pleasing has to fall away. After all triggers are a teacher
3. Not everyone will resonate with you.
And that’s okay. Stay rooted in your values and lineage — authenticity over approval.
4. You won’t meet your students’ expectations — conscious or unconscious.
You’re a mirror, and eventually they’ll see you’re human. And in that moment, you become real — not a projection, not a fantasy, but a flawed, embodied, honest human. That’s where the real teaching begins.
5. You’re allowed to be human.
You’ll have off days. Feel tired, unsure, reactive. But you keep showing up. Because there’s healing in staying. And your students witness the whole of you — light and shadow.
Teaching yoga has been such an initiation — a path that has challenged, humbled, refined and expanded me, in the most beautiful of ways. It’s taught me to be consistent, resilient, clear and compassionate. I’m still learning the delicate art of energy management and grace — soft front, strong back, open heart.
To everyone who has walked this path with me — whether for a moment or a year — thank you. You’ve been my mirror, my medicine, and my reminder that this journey is never about perfection, but presence.
And as I surrender into the liminal in preparation for a new chapter. I’m reminded that we are all just walking each other home, some way or another.
🤍🤍🤍