Where a teacher-training invitation belongs
A teacher’s first-person essay asks studios to reconsider the repeated sales pitch that can follow a quiet class.
In a November 4 Yoga Journal essay, Los Angeles teacher Ramoni Overton describes a familiar interruption: finishing Savasana, then hearing another pitch for the studio’s teacher training. Her concern is the repeated recruitment of people who came to take a class.
Information without an expectation
Overton acknowledges that studios need income. She nevertheless questions what happens when an instructor’s role moves from leading practice to pursuing sign-ups. This is her perspective as a teacher and student, rather than a survey establishing why students leave studios.
Her alternatives are practical: leave information at the front desk, put an announcement on the schedule or hold a separate information session for interested people. Each gives a student more choice about entering that conversation.
For independent teachers, the essay poses a useful boundary question. What information belongs in the shared class, and what is better made available for someone to seek out afterward? An invitation can remain visible without assuming that every student wants to become a teacher.
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