All learned over five years of beautiful/bitter experience!
* It doesn’t matter if you don’t bend. Very often unbendy teachers can be less intimidating to unbendy students.
* Practice the sequences you teach before you teach them. Trust me on this one! There is no worse feeling than realising in front of a room full of yoga students that something that worked in your head doesn’t work in real life.
* Unless you are beyond lucky, a Lotto winner or already famous you will probably need a day job as well. Teach yoga for love not money and all will come.
* It doesn’t matter if you muddle your lefts and rights, we all do and nobody cares.
* Pedicures are a business expense.
* It’s OK to be nervous before each class. The best and the greatest get stage fright. Dave Grohl is infamous for it. 
* Teach your yoga, not somebody else’s.
* Give yourself plenty of time. Don’t turn up to class with seconds to spare. You should, if you can, have twenty minutes beforehand on your own to regroup and breathe. Having said that I once got on the wrong train and had to go to Basingstoke and back to get to class. I arrived 5 minutes late. It was one of the best classes I ever taught. But do what I say, not what I do! ;)
* Smile and get your students smiling too.
* Your heart and your students are better teachers than any guru can ever be. Listen to them.
And finally….
* Praise your students, make them feel beautiful. We are not here to judge or shame, merely to enable.
