29, 4.5. > 40

[rainbowgirl]

Hiya
I am a yoga teacher and started teaching about a year ago. I did have a lot of confidence issues at the beginning and thankfully My teaching ability/confidence has improved a great deal. Yay. I already have a wonderful following of dedicated students, which I am extremely grateful for :bows: However I would like to make a full time living out of teaching (not that it feels like work at all!) and I would say my classes are currently about half full. I get the feeling that I might be missing something that could be really obvious

I asked the Ching;

" what's needs to happen for my classes to be full"

Any advice out there please?

Peas and love

 

[Tim K]

Looking at these lines made me smile

Wilhelm, h29:
Thus the noble walks with constant virtue and undertakes the business of teaching.
...
So likewise in teaching others everything depends on consistency, for it is only through repetition that the pupil makes the material his own.

Just continue to teach, you are doing a good job.

Richmond 29.4:
A jug of wine. A basket of rice. Vessels of clay.
Simplicity handed in through an opening. There will be no blame.

When we stop trying to manipulate our reality to get what we think we need our basic needs are found to be there; if we do not manipulate there is no blame.

Maybe do more basic classes instead of advanced ones, to attract more people.

Wilhelm, 29.4 says the same:
If in difficult times we want to enlighten someone, we must
begin with that which is in itself lucid and proceed quite simply from that point on.

Line 5 does promise success.
Richmond 29.5:
The abyss does not overflow. It is filled to the brim. No error.

If we feel too fulsomely we are carried away in the overflow; if we empty ourselves of feeling we are in a great empty chasm (abyss). Here there is a balance.

Hah! Your classes will be full eventually Just try not to overload yourself.

 

[weaver]

Hi rainbowgirl. Sorry for the late reply. This casting spoke to me. I wondered if starting some early morning yoga classes (the judgement in 40 mentions daybreak I think, and they tend to be popular anyway) might help?

Also, perhaps there is an opportunity in the way you feel when you teach? Lots of people suffer from confidence issues and unsettlingly strong emotions (29) and yoga is a great way of regulating these, as you know better than I do. What about developing sequences for confidence (like the Warrior poses for example) or grounding (standing poses, balances, anuloma viloma)? Occupying the heart of your fear could turn the class into something that is perfectly in sync with what you and your students need.

 

[rainbowgirl]

Thank you, Tim and Weaver for your perspectives and helpful comments.

I'm still in the same position in terms of student numbers. As new students arrive... Other students leave due to the ebbs and flow of their own lives. This could represent the 29.5 line? I think this reading is still working its way through.
I have added some really simple classes. I teach very soft and gentle yoga anyway... And have also added some stronger practice classes too - which is something my body is crying out for too so works well. I am catering for all levels now... Well apart from the really hardcore fast paced. So am happy with that. I have also moved to a new and beautiful large newly built hall and it may take time to fill that up. I simply have to breath in and accept it will all play out the way it needs to. I just hope the bank balance sees it the same way! And yes I am working a little part time job to assist.
And am talking to local papers to produce an article about the yoga I teach. They are very interested.
Faith, faith, faith!
I shall update once there have been some changes and reading has fully played out.