Oh how our mind likes to play tricks with us and offer unsolicited advice! 🤯
You have this thought about becoming a Pilates or Yoga teacher, but then…..
You get these thoughts
❌ I’m too old
❌ I’m too young
❌ I’m too overweight
❌ I can’t do all the exercises
❌ I don’t have enough time
❌ I don’t have enough money
❌ I’m not flexible enough
❌ I don’t have enough experience
And I’m sure we could probably think of about 100 more things to add to the list……🙈
If you’ve followed me for a while you know I love the analogy of Usain Bolt. 🏃♀️
The fastest man on earth.
Well if we were to believe in what we were thinking…
He would actually be the second fastest man on earth and his COACH would be the first.
Get what I’m saying ❓
Do you even know what his coach’s name is?! 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕
BUT do you think he did a pretty good job at training Usain? HELL YEAH!
So when it comes to deciding whether or not you want to do your teacher training based on your flexibility (or lack thereof),
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒.
During our Level 3 Pilates & Yoga Practitioner courses we take you through a variety of teaching skills training where you are purposely not allowed to demonstrate exercises so that you actually learn how to teach through verbal instruction.
What happens if you break a leg or have a cold and you can’t demonstrate. 𝐀 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬. They teach by watching and facilitating.
Not being able to do some of the exercises or not being able to touch your toes often crops up when I speak to people about doing their Pilates or Yoga Teacher Training and what I always say is this:
Thanks to medical science, people are living longer.
A LOT LONGER.
Just because people age it doesn’t mean they want to stop moving, but they also don’t want to harm their bodies and they know they can’t do the things they used to do.
There’s not much in the way of pilates or yoga classes for over 70’s (as an example). There isn’t much offered in homes for patients to do some movement and stay as strong as they possibly can.
The secret is this:
𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉.
So it really doesn’t matter whether or not you can touch your toes, stand on your head or if you’re 70 years old.
💜 We like our teachers to be like us.
💜 We like our teachers with all their flaws (especially if we have the same flaws!).
💜 We like our teachers to understand what we’re going through.
THERE ARE OTHERS OUT THERE JUST LIKE YOU, who would LOVE to come to your class, because they know YOU GET THEM. You UNDERSTAND how they feel and if “you can do it” that also means “they can do it”.
On our Level 3 Pilates & Yoga Practitioner Courses, we teach you how to create classes that will help the youngest and the oldest to get the most out of their class! (in my picture – the youngest person was a 35 year old lady and the oldest was a 75 year old man!)
𝑺𝒐…..𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒛𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒓 _____________ (𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒌) 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒀𝒐𝒈𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓!
There are so many people out there waiting for someone like you to take the leap of faith!
Lots of love
Tanja xxx
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