How to Find Your Teaching Voice and Keep it for the Long Haul

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Jason shares how to find your voice as a yoga teacher, how it evolves through different life phases, and how to sustain it over the long haul. You’ll learn why finding your voice is an ongoing process, how to stay confident as a yoga teacher, and how to overcome burnout, self-doubt, and comparison.

You'll learn:

• How to find your voice as a yoga teacher (and why it’s always evolving)

• The role of passions, practice, and personal growth in shaping your teaching style

• Common obstacles yoga teachers face—and how to move through them with resilience

• Tips to stay inspired, prevent yoga teacher burnout, and build confidence for the long term

• How specialized yoga teacher training can help you refine your authentic teaching voice

Chapters:

03:00 Finding Your Voice as a Yoga Teacher

05:55 The Evolution of Teaching Styles

09:36 Adopting and Evolving from Your Teacher's Voice

12:54 Personal Journey and Influences

17:00 Incorporating New Interests and Passions

20:29 The Importance of Lifelong Learning

23:03 The Importance of Continuous Learning in Yoga

24:16 Embracing Authenticity as a Yoga Teacher

26:24 Overcoming People Pleasing in Teaching

28:31 The Illusion of Pleasing Everyone

33:09 Adapting and Evolving as a Teacher

36:04 The Need for Ongoing Training

41:34 Managing Burnout and Teaching Strategies

44:33 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

🌟 Ready to deepen your skills and reignite your passion for teaching yoga?

Our 300-Hour Online Yoga Teacher Training helps you specialize, build lasting confidence, and find your authentic voice. [Learn more ➡️ jasonyoga.com/300]

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land.
0:14.3	Hi, Jason. Hi, Andrea. How you doing? I'm good. People who are watching this can see why I'm good. Yeah. Because I have a really good dog in my life. You got a queen on your lap. I have a queen in my lap. And she is so in a good state right now. Those of you just listening to this audio, I really appreciate it. We thank you for being a listener. If you ever want to watch this, we also publish this on my
0:39.1	YouTube channel. And not only do you get to see our smiling faces. You get to see this gorgeous one.
0:45.4	You get to see the pointy ears of a very attentive chihuahua. Yeah. Okay, well, we're going to talk
0:52.0	today about a perennial topic. I think for any person, but
0:57.5	especially for yoga teachers, and that is finding your voice. But before we do that, I want to do
1:04.4	a little housekeeping, which is that you are about to start your 300-hour training.
1:12.4	I am. Yeah, it's, we're doing the hips and legs module. I'm super excited about it.
1:20.2	If anyone's on the fence, let me shove you over with loving kindness. Yeah. It's so good.
1:25.4	It's such a community. And something I've been thinking about a lot as a yoga
1:28.8	teacher is how much as teachers we have to do alone. Like as a yoga teacher, it's a weirdly, lonely,
1:36.5	isolated business. It is. I mean, we have our students, our students are our community, for sure,
1:41.5	we don't do that alone. But in terms of peers and having oversight and guidance from a mentor who has experience,
1:49.3	it's actually really rare.
1:50.9	It's something I had no idea.
1:52.4	So for that alone, it's an amazing thing.
1:54.8	So I would love to work with anyone who's interested.
1:57.3	And that's it.
1:58.4	Registration is happening.
2:00.2	And our first live session is May 7th.
2:03.2	Yeah.
2:03.6	Yeah.
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