Your teaching voice is the tool you use when you teach. It can make the class amazing or challenging, depending on how you use it. In yoga culture, we hear a lot about ‘finding your voice’ and ‘teaching from the heart’ — but what do those statements mean?
When you first start teaching, you might be more concerned with not mixing up your ‘lefts’ and ‘rights’ than with teaching your truth! There’s no need to have all the answers straight away, but long-term, the most important thing is to develop the confidence to teach as you.
Yoga-speak
By yoga-speak, I mean the speech patterns, habits, and clichés that we tend to fall into when trying to sound how we think a yoga teacher should sound. The trouble with yoga-speak is it creates a barrier between teachers
