If anyone knows how horrible it is to sit assessments or exams – it’s me. I am not academic at all and have probably failed most exams in my life at least once! 🥺
And it’s not that I didn’t study….
In fact I would study really hard….
But then you’re sitting there and the paper is in front of you and all of a sudden my mind goes blank and 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟! 🤯
Or…
Just before I have to teach an assessment I don’t know whether I want to 💩, pee or 🤮 or everything at the same time and let’s not mention the sweaty hands, sweaty cleavage and all those other areas!! YIP I get that too! 🙈
Because I always want to make sure our courses are among the best, I do lots of my own teacher training courses to ensure our level of expertise is among the best!
Recently I completed another 500hr Yoga teacher training course and I was SO nervous about teaching, even though I’ve been teaching Pilates and Yoga for nearly 10 years! It never goes away BUT 10 minutes in your nerves will settle and by the 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒛𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈! 🤸♀️
You’ll never get over the anxiety by sitting at home and trying to plan your way or think your way by getting over anxiety.
The only way to get over it or through it is to do the thing that makes you anxious in a supportive place. So whether that’s sitting for the written assessment and doing that several times or standing up and teaching, you get better and better each time.
During our Pilates and Yoga Teacher training we spend ALOT of time getting you teaching practice so that you start to feel more comfortable and confident standing up and I know that sounds really scary but it’s the one thing I 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒. 💞
We create a safe space where it’s okay to mess up or get tongue twisted or even go completely blank! 𝑰𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒕! 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑬𝑵𝑱𝑶𝒀 𝒊𝒕.
𝑊𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤.
We encourage our teachers to experiment with their teaching style so that you can find what works best for you rather than be cardboard cutouts of your own teachers. We want you to develop your own style and way of teaching so that YOU bring your own personality and quirks to your classes and you can do that in the safety of a judgement free zone.
No one is perfect, not even us and we support you, your fellow teachers support you and even our clients that volunteer to be guinea pigs are also there to support you.
Here’s some of the ways that we make your experience easier:
✅ There’s mock theory papers for you to practice your exam with
✅ We have clients come along to some classes so you can teach other people and actually see different body types / accessibility and modifications
✅ Our teaching skills exercises are fun and will help to develop your skills super quick
✅ There’s no limits to how many times you can take the theory test and there’s no extra cost
✅ We run mock group teaching assessments so you know exactly what to expect on the day
✅ I check all your paperwork before hand to make sure you hit all the assessment criteria so that there’s no way you can “refer” because of something missed
There’s always going to be some kind of nerves, which is actually a good thing as it shows that you care about your performance, but you will have less stress.
I will let you all in on a little secret of mine.
𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑁𝑂 𝑊𝐴𝑌 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑!. 𝐼 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.
𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐈 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 ❣️ 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 – 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐋𝐎𝐋
I love the energy I get from a class and the group enthusiasm and it’s like spending an hour with friends!
It gets even better when you start to teach your own clients and they’re your classes and you start to see how your classes are really helping other people to live better lives:)
Lots of love
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