Yoga Teachers & Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, and Solutions

Let's Talk Yoga

Arundhati Baitmangalkar

Business, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Yoga teaching is a beautiful, fulfilling journey, but let's be real—it can also be exhausting. As someone juggling multiple full-time jobs, I know firsthand what it feels like to be stretched too thin. This episode is all about yoga teachers and burnout—the sneaky ways it creeps up, how to recognize it, and, most importantly, what we can do to recover and prevent it from happening again. Episode Highlights: Understanding BurnoutFour Major Signs of Burnout:Resistance to teaching, feeling drai...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I want to start this episode by giving you a personal update because it directly ties into the context and relevance of this episode. If you are a long-term listener of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast, you know I do three different things. I have three full-time jobs. The first one is my
0:23.0	yoga studio, Aham Yoga. It is my 12-year-old child. I teach five to six days a week given what season
0:30.8	we are in. I also operate, manage, market the studio. I do have admin support and some teachers,
0:37.4	but it is a full-scale yoga studio.
0:40.6	So that keeps my plate pretty full. It is my real full-time job. My second studio is my
0:47.6	Bollywood Dance Studio called Bollyworks. I have 22 years of professional Bollywood Dance
0:53.5	experience at this point. I used to work with a
0:56.5	very well-known dance company when I lived in India and I trained as an instructor. We traveled the
1:02.1	world and performed with Bollywood celebrities. I also was a show manager and production assistant
1:07.8	there. So I do have extensive stage show production skills.
1:13.7	Now, post-pandemic, I had stopped my shows because it's a lot.
1:18.5	It's a lot of work to get a full-scale show from scratch on stage.
1:23.9	But our previous show was so mind-blowing in many ways that my students chased me for five years.
1:30.7	And I'm not making that timeline up. They literally chased me for five years until I gave up.
1:37.0	And we're doing another show on May 31st of this year. We have over 110 performers. And I am the creative director of the show. So there's
1:47.2	choreography, there's costumes, lighting, stage work, managing the edits, creating the edits. There's so
1:54.2	much that goes into stage production. Now, while I enjoy it, it is a lot of work. So that's my second job.
2:03.1	The third thing I do is I create online yoga education content for yoga teachers through my online trainings.
2:12.3	Shout out to all my Praniyama students right now in the teacher training.
2:16.3	I also have this podcast, Let's Talk
2:18.7	Yoga, where we're constantly trying to find more meaningful episodes for you. And then there is
2:24.8	all the other content creation. My monthly newsletter, which I hope you are on, if not the link is in
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