How to be a good yoga instructor

Yoga is now a very popular sport. It is one of the most popular sports among women because it can help lose weight, eliminate body fat, and improve one's character. In most towns, there are yoga gyms where you can enjoy the joy of practicing yoga every day. So, practicing yoga always requires a professional coach. How to be a good yoga coach?

A perfect and excellent yoga teacher will shine like a diamond. This is the radiance of a spiritual, inner quality. Without this light, how can others believe that yoga can bring people spiritual joy, hope, purity, knowledge, love, faith, vitality, health, brilliance, beauty and tranquility? The perfect qualities of a yoga teacher can be compared to the sixteen facets of a diamond, and the cutting process is equivalent to the perseverance and hard practice and the persistent efforts and asceticism for purification. In this way, the light of life will be as eternal, pure and dazzling as a diamond. He wrote these sixteen aspects to inspire his students who were to become yoga teachers:

1. A teacher can never change his teachings based on his personal opinions. You must lead by example.

2. The higher your level as a teacher, the more humble you must be.

3. Teachers should always serve their students, so that they will become ten times stronger than you in the future, because every student is tomorrow's teacher.

4. A teacher must be extremely kind, loving, compassionate, and forgiving.

5. In order to make your students excellent, as a teacher you must always urge, inspire, face your students' shortcomings and improve your students.

6. As a teacher you have to constantly visualize, imagine, believe and expand yourself in all aspects, you have to touch everything, meditate, practice and show that you are Ang Sang Wahe Guru (every limb of me, every part of me belongs to the Divine), so that the energy of guru ram das will emerge from you.

7. As a teacher you should always be in Chardikala (Higher Spirit) and connected with your Higher Self and not fall into the turmoil of emotions. Think more about your blessings than your misfortunes. Always maintain your elegance and brilliance and keep growing.

8. As a teacher you are continually moving toward the divine and the infinite, for that is the essence of your being. You are not a human being seeking spirituality, but a soul experiencing birth as a human being. Your purity and devotion as the Soul (Atma) is ever present and protected, it is always transcendent and radiant. It is more important than anything else to always see this clearly, whether mentally, physically or spiritually.

9. As a teacher, you should listen to and follow all correct teachings. By reading you will understand, by writing you will understand, and by teaching you will achieve perfection. The perfection of a teacher is the perfection of conveying information. Your success as a teacher is not determined by how much you know, but by how much your students accept. A teacher's value is measured by the growth, dignity and excellence of his students. If you discover any talent, cultivate it, teach it, and bring it to perfection to the best of your ability.

10. As a teacher, you must get rid of the false self and worldly power struggles, and always focus on the spirit, soul and human nature. Always pay attention to wisdom, talent and perception, always pay attention to habits, methods and mentality. Only pure thoughts can bring universal knowledge and make you generous, joyful and beautiful.

11. Your karma is a gift from God and the Guru, and as a teacher you must commit yourself to dhama (righteous lifestyle) to honor the gift of life given by God. Never stray or separate from your Atma.

When teaching students to practice yoga, the coach must wear white sportswear, because white yoga practice clothes can give students a special sacred feeling, which will stimulate students' interest in practicing yoga and at the same time enhance their own authority, killing two birds with one stone. A coach can also be said to be a kind of teacher, therefore, he should have both moral integrity and good conduct, which is the most important thing.