Let's listen together: The considerate words of the yoga instructor
Unconsciously, yoga craze is overwhelming. White-collar workers who are keen on "competing" with their bodies on yoga mats want to change the MSN name to "I'm not practicing yoga, I'm on the way to practicing yoga." Correspondingly, yoga instructors, the professional promoter behind yoga, have become a new professional favorite in the eyes of everyone. You can use many beautiful words such as "fashion","elegance","freshness", and "tranquility" to add to this career. Who are doing this profession, what original intention makes their life trajectory stop at yoga and change it, and what have they gained in this new profession? What kind of test are we facing? With a lot of curiosity, we walked into the world of these peaceful mind makers. When they meet yoga, the story begins...
Coach's Experience
1. Relax your mind and let nature take its course: Coach Wu Hong pointed out that practicing yoga is not about what you want, but about understanding yourself and adjusting connections according to your physical condition. Yoga is the process of understanding your body. Don't blindly focus on the effects of stretching and leg pressing as hard as you can, but put your feelings more on the part where you stretch to listen to your body's information. In more than an hour of practice time, forget everything and just pay attention to your body. Over time, this kind of practice will slowly make us become calm and peaceful and achieve the perfect combination of body and mind.
2. Don't exceed your limits: Coach Hu Haiyan said that blindly pursuing difficult movements will have negative effects. Nowadays, many people use sweating as a criterion to measure courses, which is actually a misunderstanding. Some positions are simple, but you can get good results if you do them consistently. Moreover, many people have a certain mentality of comparison in the process of practicing yoga and always want to surpass others. In fact, they don't know that transcending oneself is the greatest success. Difficult movements are states that the body naturally reaches and are not hard-earned.
3. Persistence: To achieve certain results, you need to maintain three complete courses a week, persevere, persevere, turn yoga into a way of life and cultivate it into a habit.
Coach Hu Haiyan
Original intention: Benefit yourself and others
During the interview, the reporter found that it is not easy to become a yoga instructor as a way to get rich. In reality, the income of a yoga instructor is not high. On average, it is only a medium level at most. The original intention of many yoga instructors to learn yoga was not from an economic perspective, but to solve their own problems. When they benefited from yoga and fell in love with yoga, they turned to yoga as their own profession and benefited others. The experience of Hu Haiyan, the head coach of Guo Jian Yoga, is typical.
After graduating from college, Hu Haiyan worked as a clerk in a company. At that time, because her family was sick, she urgently needed to shoulder the heavy responsibilities of the family. However, at the same time, there was a gap between her real work and her ideals and expectations. Under huge psychological pressure, she suffered severe insomnia. "I couldn't sleep for a few days, and I could only sleep for two or three hours. I have taken medicine, drank lavender tea, and slept on medicinal pillows, but none of them used them. I tried walking to work and shopping, trying to make myself exhausted, but I was still awake at night." Hu Haiyan talked about her original experience. In this way, when I encountered yoga with problems, the problems were solved, and my mood was much brighter. She was surprised by the magic of yoga and became very interested in understanding yoga in depth. After really receiving training from a yoga instructor, she realized that she had done something very meaningful. Life will be different from now on. From 2004 to the present, she has been a yoga instructor for three years. She enjoys this job very much."I like this atmosphere very much. The working environment is not stressful and the people she meets are very simple." she said. At the same time, she also enjoys the changes this job has brought to her. In the crowd, Hu Haiyan's figure was very conspicuous. Her tall head, slim and firm figure, beautiful face, wavy hair draped across her shoulders, and she was dressed in style and freedom, making it easy for her to jump out of the crowd. "Before practicing yoga, I was very thin. My friends joked that you should never come out on a windy day." She said with a smile. Today, Hu Haiyan feels particularly gratified to see many students gradually get out of their psychological or physical difficulties under her guidance.
Employment: Full time and part-time jobs are suitable
With the popularization of yoga culture, people's enthusiasm for yoga is increasing day by day. Due to the large market demand, there are more and more professional yoga instructors. Moreover, because work is relatively free and the working environment is relaxed, which is beneficial to both existing and others, professional yoga instructors have become a popular profession that many white-collar workers aspire to pursue. In fact, in addition to participating in coaching training classes and practicing hard to become a full-time yoga instructor, working as a part-time instructor has also become the choice of many yoga enthusiasts.
According to Hu Haiyan, 80% of the students participating in coaching classes at Guojian Yoga are young people in their thirties, and there are also elderly people in their sixties. "They go back to teach their friends after they receive training." In Hu Haiyan's view, in fact, yoga can be completely combined with work. For many white-collar workers, as long as they are interested in yoga, working as a part-time yoga instructor after work is also a good choice. "One student is an obstetrician and gynecologist and works part-time as a yoga instructor in his spare time. She found that since teaching yoga, the feeling of seeing patients had changed. In the past, I might be impatient, but now I treat patients like students, releasing love, paying attention and comforting, and no longer being as grumpy as in the past. Correspondingly, interactions with patients become smoother and more benign. Invitably, this doctor began to enjoy his job." Hu Haiyan said. "As the mentality of looking at things becomes peaceful, many people begin to know how to enjoy life, enjoy work, and gain the love and care of people."
Certification: It's not easy to talk about regulation
At present, the training and certification of yoga instructors are organized by some non-governmental organizations, and there is no unified vocational qualification certification issued by the Ministry of Labor. During the interview, the reporter saw no less than ten certifications for yoga instructors, all of which were issued by many private organizations at home and abroad. However, when it comes to unified certification standards, insiders said that there are no such certifications yet. In this market environment, there is a lot of noise, and what kind of certification is authoritative can only be identified by word of mouth and signboards.
Nowadays, yoga has just begun in our country. Many people have devoted themselves to this industry with their enthusiasm for yoga and become yoga instructors to benefit others through scientific yoga teaching. But at the same time, due to the lack of unified professional qualification certification and corresponding regulatory agencies, and lack of understanding of yoga theory, history and related medical knowledge, yoga instructors who practice just because they can do some yoga positions also exist in the market. An invisible war is also unfolding in this "elegant" profession. Faced with the mixed market situation, Hu Haiyan said frankly that although there will be competitive pressure, she believes that as the market becomes more and more mature in the future, the relevant certification system will become more and more complete, people will have a deeper understanding of yoga, and their choices will become more and more rational, and some non-standard institutions will gradually be eliminated by the market.
Wu Hong, a coach of Yama Yoga, said that when recruiting yoga instructors, Yama Yoga Studio basically does not look at certificates, age and appearance, but looks at their understanding of yoga and tutoring experience. "Generally speaking, the oral exam is first conducted to see the candidate's experience. Only after passing this test will the class be tried. What is important is not the demonstration of the teacher's own position, but the experience of tutoring." Wu Hong said. In her opinion, as a yoga instructor, she is limited to displaying postures and can easily be surpassed. So far, I have been a yoga instructor for 4 years, but as long as there is a good yoga course, no matter which city in the country it is taught, Wu Hong will go and listen to it. "Only by constantly learning can we not be eliminated by the market and can we truly help others."