Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a Yoga Teacher: Proven Ways to Own Your Voice with Mado Hesselink
Let's Talk Yoga
Arundhati Baitmangalkar
4.9 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. As always, I hope you are doing well and that you are thriving in some capacity as you listen to this. I have been in a very busy season for many months now and that's because my Bollywood dance production called Project Bollywood, which is a part of my Bollyworks |
| 0:21.4 | dance studio, we have a performance coming up. And this production has over 110 participants |
| 0:27.9 | and I am the creative director, which means I choreograph the pieces that go in, costume design, |
| 0:34.4 | light design, all things production, and also show up in these classes and |
| 0:38.1 | dance and teach them. This is apart from all the other things I usually do with yoga, so my life |
| 0:43.7 | has been feeling pretty full. And I have been thinking about this topic, imposter syndrome, |
| 0:51.2 | for the past couple of days. And the reason I was reminded of this is because I have had imposter syndrome for the past couple of days. And the reason I was reminded of this is because I have had imposter syndrome for so long that I didn't know it had a name and a term. |
| 1:02.1 | And it was something that people experienced often. |
| 1:05.3 | And I discovered imposter syndrome sometime in the pandemic. |
| 1:09.2 | I think it was via another podcast I was listening to and I |
| 1:12.6 | instantly connected to it. And I have a lot more imposter syndrome in my dance world. In the episode |
| 1:18.4 | today, I discuss how that actually started and knowing that has helped cope with a lot of things. |
| 1:23.9 | And sometimes, but not often, it shows up in my yoga side too. I know imposter syndrome is something |
| 1:29.2 | a lot of yoga teachers have encountered and struggled with and I was reminded of a conversation |
| 1:35.1 | I did about imposter syndrome with Madoe Hessling and this conversation was recorded on the |
| 1:40.6 | Let's Talk Yoga podcast way back in June 2021 when I had started understanding |
| 1:45.7 | Imposter Syndrome and I wanted to help other yoga teachers who were going through the same thing. |
| 1:51.0 | So I am doing a drop or more like a redrop of this imposter syndrome and yoga teachers |
| 1:57.2 | conversation that we did in 2021. It is still relevant today. |
| 2:03.0 | I just listened to it this morning because I was almost going to make you a brand |
| 2:07.5 | new episode. |
| 2:08.4 | But this episode has so much in it. |
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