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I’ve been writing Teaching Kids Yoga for just under a year now and it has slowly grown to find those people who are interested in bringing kids some powerful yoga tools.

Save Yourself Time
My teacher, Tulshi Sen, often quotes a wise proverb: “Fools learn from their own mistakes, the wise learn from the mistakes of others.”Before the giveaway begins, let’s put the market research we’ve been doing and what we have learned from others to good use. Hopefully you have contacted some daycares and found out what they are looking for and if there is a market for your yoga classes. If it looks good to continue teaching kids yoga in your area we’ve got to put that information to use now.

Market Research: It’s Everywhere
Let’s carry our Market Research a step further. Market research is all around you so let’s learn how to put together a good advertisement. You’ll find most marketing involves reducing your product or service to a few words or a sentence at the most. Take a look:

Turn Marketing Into a Game: What Are they Selling?
A company selling yoga DVD’s expresses it nicely:

Acacia Lifestyle – Promoting Healthy Joyful Living.

Last month I was contacted by Katie from Acacia Lifestyle. She found my blog and contacted me about networking with a cross promotion.

I found out Acacia Lifestyle launched in 2006 and is Acorn Media’s healthy joyful living brand. Acacia offers a wide variety of workouts including yoga, tai chi, Qi Gong, total body, dance, back pain and yes … even a video called: Yoga for Young Bodies.

Put What Others Have Learned to Work for You

As you think about your business and how to promote it, take a look around you to see what there is to learn right under your nose. Not everyone reading is Canadian or American, but everyone can learn from current events to see what is important to people now. You’ll reduce your research budget by learning from others.

If you were to boil down your Kids Yoga Mission to a catch phrase what would it be? Start playing with ideas now, it will probably take pages full of possible catch phrases before you find the right one.

Upcoming Kids Yoga Teacher Training Courses and Dates in Toronto at this link — Our next Kids Yoga Teacher Training starts soon!

When Not to Keep a Secret
It’s been around for ages. It’s used by royalty and paupers. It’s among the fastest growing applications on the Internet. It’s blogged about, whispered about, and even twittered about.

Go to any job hunting club or website and its usually the number one method listed of getting a job.

It’s the time tested and proven MOST effective way of getting work.

It’s NETWORKING.

It’s How People are Hired
Indeed most people are hired by networking. Most jobs are never posted in the Want Ads and never put on-line or in the newspaper.

I have never seen an ad for a children’s yoga teacher posted in any newspaper.

All of my kids yoga jobs over ten years (except one class) came directly or indirectly through networking.

It’s the phone call you get from a friend of a friend who’s daycare is looking for a yoga teacher.

In my experience I’ve got these calls from:

other yoga teachers who don’t teach kids yoga
other yoga teachers who also teach kids yoga
my friends who have kids
my friends who don’t have kids
adult yoga students who are parents
adult yoga students who are teachers
family
strangers who heard about me from someone else.

The First Step to Getting a New Kids Yoga Class
The first things to do if you want to find a kids yoga class to teach is to tell everyone about how much you love kids yoga!

Tell them about the interesting kids yoga training you took. If you have been reading tons of blogs and books about it – tell people. Tell them how much you love teaching it and your experiences.

Make sure that if someone in your network hears about someone looking for a kids yoga teacher – they think of you right away.

Talk about it as much as you talk about your other favorite hobbies and the movies you like.

Announce it in your adult classes.

When you meet a new person and they ask what you do – tell them you specialize in yoga for kids!

The first thing to do if you want to get kids classes is let people know that YOU and KIDS YOGA go together like ….. kids and yoga!

Get New Classes by Becoming Known
Whether you’ve taught zero or a hundred kids yoga classes, see yourself as a kids yoga teacher. If this is something you really want to do, it will not be forced, it will be natural.

“Each Vision that we hold makes us what we are.
If we consciously choose the Vision of what we want to be, do, and have,
then we take control of our life and our destiny.
Not a single action is made without a Vision.”

from the chapter: Four Steps to Visioining,
How to Vision and Get What You Want
from the book Ancient Secrets of Success for Today’s World
by Tulshi Sen

Clarify Your Vision of Teaching Yoga
People will love to hear about things you are sincerely and honestly enthusiastic about.

Your natural enthusiasm and motivation, your inner driving passion is what you need to make it, not only in this, but in any challenge you undertake.

If you don’t truly have a passion for it, it will be a tough road. But with a strong internal driving Vision of what you want, you can and will succeed to become a kids yoga teacher.

Real-Life Yoga Networking and Market Research Examples

What’s the Most Effective Way to Get a Job Teaching Kids Yoga?