How to Get a Job Teaching Yoga

Once you’ve completed a yoga teacher training course that is nationally accredited by the Yoga Alliance, you’re ready to begin teaching just about anywhere – yoga studios, fitness clubs, community centers, and offices.  There are just a few things you need to do to guarantee that you find a teaching gig.

1)   Write a brief yoga resume listing where and when you received your training, your teaching experience, and maybe a few sentences about you as a teacher and why you love yoga.  If you don’t have much teaching experience, include all of the practice teaching you’ve done with your friends.  You can say you’ve taught private yoga sessions!

2)   Buy insurance.  It costs about $150.  Most places don’t require it, but some do, so it’s a good idea to buy insurance to cover your bases.  You can also state that you have insurance on your resume and in your cover letter.

3)   Decide how far you want to travel to teach and conduct a Google map search to pull up a list of all of the yoga studios and gyms within a travelable distance.  If you live in a small, medium, or large city, you’ll be shocked by how many places there are where you could potentially teach.

4)   Email a resume and a brief cover letter to every place where you might want to teach.  In your cover letter, state where and when you received your training, what styles of yoga you can teach, and where you have taught in the past or where you are currently teaching.  Emailing is a very effective way to find yoga jobs and it saves you time!

Teaching yoga is an incredibly rewarding job to have, and fortunately it is in high demand in most places, so you should have very little trouble finding a teaching job within a short amount of time.  Good luck!