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Online yoga classes – taking the leap

Online yoga classes – making it a reality…

With lots of thanks and support from – The ideas in you. How to find it, build it and change your life.

Midway through last year I read the wonderful book, pictured, written by Martin Amor and still refer to it now.

For anyone taking the plunge in setting something up new, feeling overwhelmed about doing it, feeling as is they don’t know what they are doing and need some re assurance that they aren’t bonkers following their passion – this book is for you.

We certainly weren’t the only ones having to adapt to the changes that Covid-19 brought us back in March 2020 and I’m sure we like many others, there was a feeling of being just a little overwhelmed.

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Doing Things Differently As Yoga Teachers

2020 was a roller coaster for sure – that’s not particularly profound and is rather stating the obvious. However, I’d like to think that as a small family run, yoga studio, we were able to adapt relatively quickly.

As we move into 2021. that’s not to say we’ve nailed it, yet, but I believe we are moving in the right direction. Similar to our own yoga practice, we are learning that it takes time, patience and the willingness to give it a go. 

Yoga Classes Online

Back at the tail end of 2019 Shannon and I had the intention to start offering more online classes – it needed a fair amount of thought and felt a ways away; an intenion rather than an objective with clear goals. With reference to the book we were – ‘Laying the groundwork’ in Section 1.

With varying levels of success and certainly some memorable failures we made the leap 12 months ago. (I deliberately am not saying forgettable failures as we have learnt a lot from the mistakes or failures). Afterall, you are never going to get it right first time. As old colleagues used to say at Eaton – Fail Fast and Keep Learning.

In many instances, if we didn’t try we wouldn’t have known if something works or not. That’s also not to say that something we have tried, that didn’t work as well as we would have liked, won’t work in the future. It is quite possible that some of things we have tried were just at the wrong time. Afterall – timing is everything.

We’ll be keeping an open book as to what we will do in the future. Perhaps we would have avoided some of the failures had I read section 2 of the book…Making a start

Making a start

Probably the most important thing need to do. If you don’t make a start then you will never know. As the saying goes- Best to regret something you have done, rather than something you haven’t. 

The future of your idea

Why is your idea is different to those around you. Afterall, it is unlikely you will be inventing something new. Certainly as vinyasa flow and yin yoga teachers we have not invited anything new. Our belief is that our students join our classes as we connect with them in how we teach, communicate and how we live. 

We’d like to think we offer Yoga for real people, by real people.

I found this section particularly encouraging as it reminds us ‘Never, Ever Give Up’ – rarely is an overnight success just that. If Joe Wicks reminds us one thing, is that to keep going, believe in yourself. Similarly, he ha also followed the concept of ‘The Economy of Favours’ by providing free content for people to try. Where possible we have done the same. If you’re wondering who we are, and how we teach, why not try one of our free yoga classes or give our 30 Day Sun Salutation Challenge a go?

Online yoga for our tribe 

We can’t control the what’s going on in the wider world – but one thing we can do is use the guiding principles featured in the the book to remain focused and true to what we are trying to achieve. I believe that Shannon and I understand who ‘our tribe’ is. We now need to make sure that ‘our tribe’ can now find us.

I’m thankful that whilst trying to grow YogaTonic UK, both my regular yoga practice and books like ‘The Idea in you’ provide invaluable support in these uncertain times.

In summary, the emotions described and tips for coping really resonated with me. It’s an easy, well written and enjoyable read that will help you make that step into the unknown. It certainly helped me – though my only regret is that I’d read it sooner.

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