How Business Mentorship Can Make You a Better Yoga Instructor
Yoga is your life. You left a career in the corporate world because you prefer the more calm, relaxed, and peaceful environment you found in yoga. You have even started your own business teaching yoga to others. Yet your experience in the corporate world doesn’t seem to be translating into business success as a yoga instructor. What can you do?
If you asked international yoga nidra expert and teacher Scott Moore, he would probably recommend mentorship. Moore is also a mindfulness business mentor who helps yoga instructors take their businesses wherever they want them to go. He fully believes in mentorship as a way to help others who are as passionate about yoga as he is. Best of all, his clients rave about his mentorship opportunities.
An Expert Willing to Share
By the strictest definition of the term, a mentor is an experienced individual willing to share what he knows with others. In Scott Moore’s case, he is a yoga nidra expert. Not only does he know yoga nidra inside out, but he also has first-hand experience in building a successful business around his love of the practice.
His role as a mentor is one of sharing what he has learned with others. He shares business knowledge and personal experience. He provides advice qualified by years of doing exactly what he advises. He also encourages, motivates, and helps clients establish and pursue goals.
How Mentorship Can Help You
Hopefully, you are now enthusiastically considering how mentorship could help you be a better yoga instructor. Start by believing that it can. Don’t just hope or suspect, believe in the power of mentorship to make you a better business owner. Then consider the following:
1. Growth Through Insight
You may be struggling to run your business because, while you are an expert in yoga, you’re not a business management expert. What you need are some helpful business insights. That is exactly what you get from mentorship. You can experience both professional and personal growth by taking advantage of the insights offered.
Mentorship can provide you with actionable guidance on everything from studio management to marketing strategies. Something as simple as learning how to price classes can make a significant difference in bringing students to your studio.
2. Goal Clarity and Alignment
One of the things that separates mentorship from business consulting is the concentration on setting and achieving personal goals. Mentors encourage mentees to clarify their goals. They encourage mentees to ensure teaching methods, business philosophies, etc. align with them. And of course, goals should be aligned with your core values.
3. Develop Skills and Boost Confidence
A mentorship with someone like Scott Moore can be invaluable in terms of exposing you to new skills. As you develop those skills, you also boost your own confidence as a teacher. All the while your mentor is a person you can look to for emotional and mental support. Your mentor can help you address the challenges you are facing as a teacher, challenges that might be shaking your confidence.
4. Developing a Personal Network
Participating in a mentorship is a terrific way to develop your own personal network. In future years, networking with your peers can help sustain you by providing much needed support and accountability. Never underestimate the power of developing a strong network.
A mindfulness business mentor like Scott Moore can help you become a better yoga teacher and business owner. If you want to make yoga instruction your career but you’re struggling to do so, consider a business mentorship. Mentorship provides the missing ingredients that yoga practice alone cannot provide.