Ridley’s CorePower teacher followed up regularly in person and connected with her online. “Wrap it Up & Keep it Open-Ended.”)Īfter approaching Ms. (“Praise validates and encourages your students,” read the captions on one such video. Video tutorials advise best practices for pitching teacher trainings in particular, without any mention that it could end up costing thousands of dollars. There are tiered monetary incentives for CorePower teachers and managers based on class type and the number of people they enroll. Rather, teacher training is offered as a kind of advanced workshop.Ĭompany performance review documents tell teachers and managers how - and when during class - to push CorePower programming. It’s not usually promoted as a career path. A year later she is still paying off the cost.Īt yoga studios around the country, teacher training is a popular way for instructors to supplement income from one-off classes and for students to advance in skill level - to deepen one’s practice, in yogi parlance. Ridley asked the studio about job opportunities to make money from her training. Ridley trained, was less straightforward than she anticipated: After paying $1,500 for a 200-hour training program, spread out over eight weeks, she was asked to complete an additional $500 “extensions” training, which was never initially mentioned. Ridley said.īut becoming a teacher at the CorePower Yoga studio in Minneapolis, where Ms. “It was like they saw something special in me,” Ms. Kalli Ridley had just finished yoga class and was feeling calm when her favorite instructor approached her with a smile and told her she would make a great teacher.
0 kommentar(er)
