How to Find a “Good” Yoga Teacher & Responsibility of a Yoga Student Teaching Yoga

Let's Talk Yoga

Arundhati Baitmangalkar

Business, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Sincere yoga teachers often ask Arundhati how to find a “good” yoga teacher. Especially in the world of social media and influencer marketing. This can be hard to navigate if you’re a new yoga teacher or if you didn’t receive quality yoga education or exposure to great teachers who ground you in the wisdom of yoga. In this episode, she shares the best ways in which you can find credible yoga teachers on the internet. She also explains what is the responsibility of the yoga asana ...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Arundati here and welcome back to episode 84 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I hope you are doing well. Things here are going great. I just wrapped up a long training and now getting into the teaching yoga to beginners course that's coming up in June, which I've spoken about before on the podcast, and I'm going to be talking about it in the
0:21.1	weeks ahead. So I'm just going to skip over that for now. In today's episode, I want to bring up
0:27.1	two important questions that I notice come up very often in conversations with yoga teachers.
0:34.2	The first question I'm asked is how to find a good yoga teacher. And I'm doing air quotes here for good yoga teachers. The first question I'm asked is how to find a good yoga teacher. And I'm doing air
0:39.9	quotes here for good yoga teachers. And as part of this conversation, I also want to talk about
0:46.1	what is our responsibility as yoga students who want to teach yoga. It is going to be a shorter
0:53.5	episode, but I do think these are very important considerations for us as yoga. It is going to be a shorter episode, but I do think these are very important
0:56.7	considerations for us as yoga teachers. So let's get to it.
1:03.5	Hi, my name is Arundhati and you're listening to the Let's Talk Yoga podcast.
1:14.5	I'm an ex-Bollywood dancer turned yoga and wellness educator.
1:19.6	I've built a six-figure business as an immigrant, woman of color yoga teacher, with no business background, no handstands, pure instinct, and the free information found
1:25.6	on Google.
1:26.9	If you love doing yoga and you dream of teaching it someday, this podcast is for you.
1:33.3	We go over everything from doing and teaching yoga to scaling a small business, living
1:39.4	a modern yoga lifestyle and so much more.
1:42.8	You'll find interesting, fun, raw conversations along with
1:47.1	some tips, tricks, strategies and insights in this podcast. So grab your cup of tea and let's jump in.
1:56.4	Sincere yoga teachers have asked me this for a very long time, right? How do we find a good yoga teacher?
2:03.9	Because honestly, it can be really confusing in the modern landscape and especially if you
2:09.2	consume social media yoga through Instagram and TikTok and all the other mediums out there.
2:14.7	This can be rather daunting, right? Now, while the question itself is
2:18.7	pretty straightforward, the answer to this isn't. Firstly, we have to realize that good is a very
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