Part 2: The Making of a Yoga Teacher -- From Nerves to Confidence

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What does it really feel like to teach yoga for the first time? In this episode of The Making of a Yoga Teacher, Jason takes you inside that nerve-wracking but transformative moment every new teacher faces: stepping to the front of the room.

Laurel, Raquel, and Erin talk about what it was like to teach for the first time during the training. Through their stories, you’ll see that every yoga teacher starts here — nervous, vulnerable, and discovering that courage grows with each breath and each class.

👉 Learn more about Jason's 200-Hour Training here: jasonyoga.com/200

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to Yoga Land. I am Jason Crandall. I have taken over from Andrea Ferretti yet again.
0:06.4	This is week two. This is episode two where we are airing my little mini documentary called The Making of a Yoga Teacher.
0:14.5	And it follows three students, Aaron, Laurel, and Raquel through their entire process of why they decided to join a 200-hour
0:23.2	teacher training, and it follows them through the arc until they become teachers.
0:28.5	This episode is really great because I know we can all relate, we can all empathize
0:34.3	with the first process or the first time that we actually taught a class. Now,
0:42.4	everybody for me in my teacher training program, it is so important that we begin teaching
0:47.5	right away and that we begin teaching right away without any pressure to be right,
0:52.6	to be correct, to be accurate. And that might sound strange
0:56.4	to you, but the most difficult thing in the early phase of teaching yoga is not understanding
1:03.0	technique. It's just getting a feel for verbalizing and communicating in front of others.
1:08.9	It's a process of working through the nerves of doing that.
1:13.0	And so I want people to have early exposure to the process. And I want to give people these
1:19.4	really small incremental steps that they can scale up and start to believe in themselves from
1:26.6	the beginning. And so this is going to follow
1:30.2	Aaron, Laurel, and Raquel, both in that very early educational process where they step in front
1:36.3	of their peers and they start to give cues. And it's hard. We know it's hard if you've ever been
1:42.6	there. And I know so many of my listeners have. It is hard. And some days it's still hard. We know it's hard if you've ever been there. And I know so many of my listeners have.
1:44.6	It is hard. And some days it's still hard. So I think you are really going to connect with this
1:50.9	episode. This episode also talks through their process of first getting to know their peers
1:57.9	and starting to make those early connections so i think you're really
2:01.4	going to enjoy this episode if you haven't already listened to the first episode you can check that out
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