Your Yoga In English by Enga Unite

Among our community members I see the desire to quit the office job that doesn’t fulfil you; break free from doing what you think you’re expected to do; stop taking on jobs only to pay the bills; or find ways to stop playing small, because your inner critic doesn’t fully believe you’re capable to choose the life you want (yet).
I know that you’re more than ‘just’ a yoga teacher and that you have a package of skills, experiences and expertise that make you you. A package that you can turn into your business or career. To build the life you want, experience freedom and fulfilment and do purpose-driven work.

Today, I want to elaborate on our session of last week, where I explained how to unite your authentic qualities. Specifically, I want to dive into how you can revolutionise your purpose to build a sustainable international yoga career.

In this episode, I want to help you shift your perspective and build your career with intention, nurturing a lasting impact.
Break free from the conventional path and explore a deeper understanding of the elements that set you up for success.
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I know that we're likeminded and you have the dream to build a career where making global connections and going on adventures like these are possible for you too! 🪄
Teaching yoga in English means you can work while you travel (or move abroad), expand your job opportunities and network and even form collaborations with people all over the world. ✨🧘🏻‍♀️

What do you know about the '90-Day Year'? 👀

As a dedicated teacher and ambitious yoga business owner, I want to say yes to every exciting opportunity. I have lots of ideas and once it’s in my head I want to get it done. My calendar and to-do lists often overflow. 😵‍💫

At the end of 2021 this lead to burnout which meant I had to cancel my classes, workshops, and social life for 4 months. I was devastated and thought this setback would ruin my career. I thought my students would lose interest, forget about me and move on with a different teacher. I’m not afraid of competition, but I do love my students and I didn’t want to lose them. 😰

In this time, I learned to reorganise myself. To say yes to new projects, but trust ‘divine timing’. To be patient, but stay committed and work on one project at the time. I also discovered Todd Herman's '90-Day Year' concept. The idea behind it is that you break down goals and plans into 90-day cycles instead of a yearly planning. The beauty of this for us as yoga teachers is that it allows us to work with the seasonal cycles in nature. 🌿🌞🍁❄️

Why am I sharing this?

Because I know that you are driven and ambitious too! 🔥🌈

That you have big plans and goals for building your yoga career!

You want to turn your 'hobbies' into paid activities so that you can quit the job that no longer fulfils you, but make a profitable income sharing your passions for yoga and wellness. To make that dream a reality, you need clarity, structure and discipline.

Building a career out of your passions doesn't happen by accident, it requires you to do some work. What that work means for you personally depends on your goals. 📍But, what I can help you with today are some time-management tools to avoid overwhelm and spend your energy wisely.

know that I'm here to guide you and meet you on every step in your continuing education journey. 🤗

Whether you just finished YTT, are ready to teach in English too, or know it’s time to make a bigger impact and reach a global audience, I'm here to help you create your ideal yoga career!

If you want to make these last 90 days of 2023 count, below have a look at how I can support you:

know that I'm here to guide you and meet you on every step in your continuing education journey. 🤗

Whether you just finished YTT, are ready to teach in English too, or know it’s time to make a bigger impact and reach a global audience, I'm here to help you create your ideal yoga career!

If you want to make these last 90 days of 2023 count, below have a look at how I can support you:

know that I'm here to guide you and meet you on every step in your continuing education journey. 🤗

Whether you just finished YTT, are ready to teach in English too, or know it’s time to make a bigger impact and reach a global audience, I'm here to help you create your ideal yoga career!

If you want to make these last 90 days of 2023 count, below have a look at how I can support you:

When I completed my Yoga Teacher Training, I felt inadequate and unprepared to call myself a yoga teacher. The amount of information left me feeling overwhelmed. I realised that teaching yoga required a whole new skillset. From mastering the vocabulary for effective cues to understanding anatomy and body mechanics. I had to learn how to craft sequences adaptable to every student and read the energy in the room, as well as adjusting class plans to student requests and answering questions I didn't always have answers to.

Teaching yoga is so much more than giving cues and instructions. 💫

We're not alone in underestimating the journey to becoming a yoga teacher... but I also know how fulfilling, rewarding and satisfying it feels to finally feel confident about who you are, what you teach and have your students leave your class already excited to join the next. 🤩

That's why I am dedicated to empowering you. 💪

You know that our mission is to make your international career a reality. We're here to help you overcome from self-doubt and linguistic barriers, and navigate the challenges of building your yoga business.

We've seen our graduates pursue incredible careers, from yoga-safari businesses to online memberships, coaching programmes and retreats abroad. The possibilities for your career are endless and it's my job to help you break free from conventional expectations.

I want you to discover a path that aligns perfectly with your lifestyle, energy, and vision. 🪄

With 1.5 billion English speakers globally, the sky is truly the limit when you teach yoga in English. 🌍

How confident do you feel about creating a sequence? 👀
Do you catch yourself thinking:
'I wish my sequences were more inspiring, they lack imagination'
'I always teach the same sequence, because it's the only one I know well'
'I wish I knew how to theme my classes so I could teach more than just the asanas'.
'I want to teach using more spiritual elements, but I feel stuck designing a sequence'.
I know that you may feel this way, because most yoga teachers feel this way after finishing YTT.
You're oversaturated with knowledge, but don't feel ready to use it. You feel inadequate to even teach the simplest things. Apart from not knowing the right vocabulary to cue, you may feel that your sequences lack structure. You improvise but actually don't know what you're doing. All of this can make you lack confidence in your teaching skills as a whole.
Therefore, to keep my promise of helping you teach with confidence, I decided that apart from learning the right words to cue effectively, our courses need more. To me that means training and practice opportunities to improve your sequencing techniques and gain the skill to build a well rounded and transformative class experience for your students.
We don't focus on English alone! 🧐
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​The Teach Yoga in English Journey​ is an all round continuing education programme.
Some of the teachers that joined before were surprised with what they learned. They expected an English course, but in reality received so much more than that.
Apart from language and communication I offer you the chance to learn, develop and improve your overall teacher skillset.
You'll develop your authenticity and ability to write, design, and theme expert sequences.
Sequences that you can use again and again without feeling repetitive. And sequences that you can adjust to your students' needs on the spot. See it as your YTT 2.0 (which even includes 50 continuing education hours on the Intensive programme)!

The teachers in our community are working hard on building their international teaching career.

There are teachers that:

• Host their own retreats or work with retreat organisations worldwide.
• Have their own membership of online classes, workshops and events.
• Moved abroad and started their own yoga studio in another country.
• Are teacher trainers and translated their YTTs to English to reach a global audience.
• Created their own courses and coaching programmes, serving their students in-person and online.

So let me ask you... What does your ideal teaching career look like?

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Right now, you may lack the structure and clear steps to making your ideal career a reality. It can feel overwhelming, intimidating or even impossible. I get it - it takes some work, but having helped hundreds of multilingual yoga teachers pursue their dreams, I have gained a lot of insight into what it truly takes and I know it is possible for you too! 🚀

I don't believe in overnight success and I certainly don't believe that there's only one way to Rome.

I believe that everyone's unique. You have your own experiences, approach, learning style, commitments and unique goals.

But I do believe that there are some essential steps and those I'd like to share with you today.

The way you'll apply these steps require you to do some inner work. It's your responsibility to find the ways that suit you, because that way I can guarantee you'll stay focussed, motivated and disciplined to making your international career a reality and super fulfilling.

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At Enga, we maintain a huge focus on the development of your personal expression. 🌟

To speak with clarity and authenticity, I confront you time and time again with the importance of self-discovery to improve your overall communication. As a yoga teacher, communication isn't just about the words and cues you use, but also about how you interact and connect with your students.

My aim is to help you find your voice so that you can express yourself truly and cultivate deeper relationships with your students.

So in today's live training, I want to help you improve your communication habits to feel confident about the way you speak and create a safe and transformative space for your students.

In this episode, I'll help you

• Become aware of your communication habits
• Unlearn 5 communication habits to maintain flow in your classes
• Gain practical tips to practise improving your communication skills

We'll break down all habits one-by-one, giving you practical examples and actionable steps to implement straight away. 📚💡

By identifying and refining these habits, you'll be able to speak more mindfully and intention so that you can create a space where your students feel seen, heard, safe, and respected. 🙌

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Every day is an opportunity to start something new or make changes.

The topic of today’s episode is inspired by some conversations I had in the last few days.

Many people (clients, co-workers, and friends) I spoke to said they feel stuck and doubtful in the last weeks. They feel disconnected and lost causing them to live on autopilot and neglect their goals.

They also described that deep down, they know they want to do something more meaningful. They want to grow, make progress, and feel more fulfilled, but find it difficult to make changes or are afraid that what they want will cost a lot of work or is impossible for them.

You may recognise you feel or have felt this way too. So today, I want to make space to help you reconnect to your path so that you can grow in your role as a yoga teacher and navigate the changes that come with it with more ease.

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To make our content relevant to you, I'd love to hear what topics you'd like to hear or see more of!

Leave me a voice message or send me DM on Instagram to tell me about your current challenges or the things you want to learn!

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How to stop postponing your ideal teaching career and decide on your next steps!

It’s August 2023 and we’re just past the middle of the year.

What goals did you set for yourself this year? And are you accomplishing them?​

The days pass by, another week starts; time flies!

You may feel that time flies and notice you got distracted by all types of other things happening in your life. (Especially now that for many of us, it’s summer time!) 

Distraction can cause you to feel unbalanced. Feeling unbalanced may result in losing focus. And not being focussed may make you forget about your goals and the things you want to achieve. All of that makes you feel unfulfilled or misaligned with your deepest desires.

In this episode, I want to help you

• Realign with your purpose

• Check in with your goals or set new objectives

• Get back on track and have a little more structure building your ideal life and career path​

For this training, I've created a fillable reflection form so that you can make the most of the things I'll share with you.

This form will help you reflect on where you are, what's going well, and what you can do to realign with your purpose and take action. You can print the form or keep it as a digital doc for yourself.

When you speak in English, do you (sometimes)...

Feel inauthentic and catch yourself using words others use, but don't feel they 'express you'?

Doubt your words actually make sense?

Wish you remembered or knew other words to say exactly what you want?

Omit saying things because you can't find 'the right words'?

In other words (pun not intended )...

Do you find yourself searching for 'the right words' to express yourself clearly?

Speaking another language is a skill and learning to teach yoga in English really doesn't have to be complicated!

The ​Teach Yoga in English Course Bundle​ is designed to not only help you find the right words, but also feel completely yourself using them. Here I help you find your voice in English so that you can teach your international students with clarity and compassion.

However, I understand that you may want to know more about what it really means to 'find the right words', so in this episode I want to focus on empowering you in your language development!

Let me help you find and use synonyms so that you can develop your communication skills to feel confident about expressing yourself without losing the essence of your personality.

Speaking another language is a skill and learning to teach yoga in English really doesn't have to be complicated!

Many teachers say that before and even during the class they feel anxious about teaching yoga.

Teaching means people look at you and wait for your cues.Being heard and seen can make you feel uncomfortable and taking the responsibility to lead and guide others can make you feel pressured.

Especially if you don't have a lot of experience yet, or want to learn to teach in a foreign language, you're not alone if teaching yoga makes you feel nervous!

In this episode find out what you can do to feel less nervous about teaching yoga!

Here I'll share my experience feeling nervous about teaching (yes, I've been there too!) and...

• 6 reasons why you may feel nervous

• 5 mindset hacks to overcome feeling nervous

• 4 practical solutions to feel more comfortable with being seen, heard, and making mistakes

No matter if you teach a group of people or just one person, all of what I'll share here will help you overcome feeling nervous about teaching yoga in your own language and in English.

The fear of speaking English is a common obstacle among language learners!

Expressing yourself in a language that’s not your own can make you feel extremely uncomfortable.

You may…

• Doubt you don’t know the right or enough words

• Fear people judge you on your accent or pronunciation

• Speak slow and feel bad about having to make people wait

• Be afraid that you sound childish and people think you’re less intelligent

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All these things cause you to hold back and postpone whatever your goal of speaking English is. For most of you here, it causes you to delay your international career.

Because if you don’t learn to speak and practice to develop your speech for teaching yoga, you’ll keep…

• Postponing to look for jobs abroad

• Declining collaborations with people that don’t speak your language

• Saying no to international teaching offers like retreats

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So, let’s dive in and find how you can overcome the fear of speaking English; feel comfortable, capable, fluent, and even yourself!

And with that, pursue your dream to teach yoga internationally!

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Today, let's chat about language and communication errors!

Specifically, I'd like to share 5 mistakes I see or hear almost every non-native English speaking yoga teacher make.

Mistakes are inevitable and I actually encourage you to make them. Making mistakes helps you get out of your comfort-zone. By making them you overcome shyness and can find out what you can do or say differently to express yourself clearer and more effectively.

But sometimes, we aren't aware of the mistakes we make and people 'forget' to tell or correct you. So, in this episode I want to help you understand what you possibly say wrong when teaching yoga in English, so that you can improve your communication with your students during and beyond your classes.

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After you’ve created your class schedule, set up your space to teach and start attracting new students it’s wise to establish your business politics, because you want to be prepared and protect yourself.
It’s possible a student gets sick or unexpectedly has to change their plans which means they could cancel last-minute.
It’s also possible students expected something differently from your classes or services or aren’t happy with their results.
All of these things can cause unnecessary obstacles if you haven’t set up your refund and cancellation policies. So in this episode, let’s have a look at what type of things you can consider to cover yourself for these types of unexpected or unfortunate circumstances.
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Expect to learn about what:

• your prices include
• to add to your class and/or service descriptions
• to consider for your refund policy
• to consider for your cancellation policy

In this episode let's chat about how you can actually attract people to your classes.

I often see yoga teachers struggling to fill up their classes and wonder what they do wrong.

In the beginning of my digital yoga career have made many mistakes too. My purpose of this training is help you understand what doesn’t work so that you can become more focussed, attract consistent students and start building a loyal clientele to expand your career and actually live off teaching yoga.
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Expect to learn how to:

• Optimise your class schedule without getting burnt out
• Overcome teaching from a place of scarcity
• Stop teaching random or general classes and instead teach what you absolutely love

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Ready to start for yourself and create your own schedule of yoga classes? Check out Momoyoga!

Momoyoga conveniently helps you manage your studio from one zen place. Here you can let your students join your classes and recorded videos; receive payments, send out links to your online classes, upload classes on demand, and much more!

Your transformation is our mission!

In this episode learn about Sabri's English and yoga journey; why she became a teacher and what she learned working with Enga.

About Sabri:

I'm a Fit Yoga teacher and Reiki master who loves helping others improve their overall health through yogic and reiki techniques. Currently I live in Germany and teach online yoga classes in a personalised way. I’m very dedicated and love my teaching profession. I try to adapt each class to the needs of my students and follow their progress in the field of wellness. My yoga school, YogaLuna, is designed for those who want to feel empowered and good about themselves. We practise Fit Yoga to train the muscles in a gentle and conscious way and I offer Reiki courses that help harmonise vital energy. On top of that I host community meetings to support and help each other further.

Do you recognise yourself in Sabri’s journey?
Do you also want to
• find your authentic voice?
• learn all the vocabulary you need to teach yoga in English?
• start your own yoga school?
• move abroad and teach worldwide?

In this episode, I'm following up on creating your own schedule and especially, teaching online. Some of you have questions about how to set up your space and the equipment needed, so I thought it’d be handy to give you a guide to online teaching.
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Expect to learn about:

• How to set up your schedule
• The types of software you need
• Setting up your space
• The equipment needed (camera, audio, and lighting)

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Ready to start for yourself and create your own schedule of yoga classes? Check out Momoyoga!

Momoyoga conveniently helps you manage your studio from one zen place. Here you can let your students join your classes and recorded videos; receive payments, send out links to your online classes, upload classes on demand, and much more!

Your transformation is our mission!

In this episode, learn about Carlos' English and yoga journey; why he became a teacher and what he learned working with Enga.

About Carlos:

I'm a young man who was born and raised in Maracaibo, a beautiful city with a gorgeous lake in the west of Venezuela. I don't like to use any labels to describe myself, but I'd like to share with you that I'm often defined as a knowledgeable, empathic and honest person; even though sometimes I can be straightforward and lazy since I'm just a human being with virtues and defects. And as many people these days I've changed careers from becoming a Mechanical Engineer, to an English Language Teacher and now I add to the list being a Yoga Instructor.If there's anything else that you should know about me, it's that you can count on me whenever you're in need of doing something to get better for you, or whoever we can help together.

Over the past weeks, you've heard me talk about teaching beyond the asanas. I want you to feel confident teaching asana, but also offer more than that: a well-rounded experience!

One way to add more value to your classes and offer these 'well-rounded experiences' is... adding mindfulness and meditation practices!

Writing scripts for mindfulness and meditation practices, as a non-native English speaker, teaching in English, requires you to learn metaphorical language or language for imagination. Learning this type of language is the next level in your language learning and takes some time. But just as it requires skill, knowledge and practice of vocabulary, metaphors and imaginary language you can learn!

In this episode I'll explain how you can add mindfulness and meditation practices to your services and offerings.

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Your transformation is our mission!

In this episode, learn about Andrea's journey and experience working with Enga for the past three years!

Some of you may have seen Andrea during the mini-course as well, because behind the scenes Andrea works with us and combines her passion for yoga and skills in business and marketing!

Andrea is a yoga teacher from Peru, currently living in Spain.

During the pandemic she completed her YTT in Paris, France and realised that her English skills weren’t yet enough to teach yoga.

In 2022, Andrea finished the English for Yoga Teachers Course and in this interview she shares with us what she learned and improved. What was most useful and what she loved the most.

In this episode, I’d like to share with you the missing piece to your international career.

Actually, there are a few missing pieces, but the first and most important one, as you can guess now, is receiving support and guidance with finding and developing your own voice (even more so, if you want to teach in a foreign language).

Finding your voice is step one of the 6-step process to becoming a confident and authentic English-speaking yoga teacher.

Your voice, as they call it in yoga, is the way you speak and what you communicate. This includes your tone of voice and also the type of language you use. You may have heard of the terms ‘use your voice’, ‘authentic voice’, ‘finding your voice’.

All of this refers to the development of becoming and expressing yourself as you are. The way you communicate and what you communicate. When finding your voice in a foreign language, it also refers to learning the type of language that matches your teaching style and personality, so that you can stay true to your natural way of being and communication, even when teaching in English.

It can be intimidating to teach in a foreign language, but since you’re here. I know you have a passion you want to share with the world. It’s time to do the work and kiss goodbye all your fears and insecurities.

Because remember, ’Teaching yoga in a foreign language is a sign of bravery!’

In this training, I'll share 7 steps to overcome practical challenges and common fears that stop you from finding your voice!

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In episode 118, I shared with you the mindset shifts needed to feel capable of teaching yoga.

I spoke about the reason 'why' you feel you aren't ready to teach yoga and unpacked 4 things that may cause you to lack confidence.

All of them are limiting beliefs.

It starts with a thought, which then makes you feel a certain way, which provokes another thought, and boom ... you’re in the cycle of negative thinking, doubting your skills, and feeding your own insecurities, which is absolutely not necessary!

As I finished that training, I realised that there's A LOT more I’d like to share about this topic so in this episode, I want to continue and give you 3 practical tricks to reprogramme your mindset for a lasting career.​

Expect to find out

• How to leave the chicken and egg situation and actually get out there

• How to find safe teaching opportunities that will help you build confidence and feel capable

• 3 ways to overcome limited and negative thinking and shift your thoughts outward rather than in

P.S. Are your English language skills the reason for you to postpone your career?