Thriving as a Highly Sensitive Yoga Teacher

We feel all the feels, empathise deeply with our students, and can use our intuition to help guide us in our work. Being Highly Sensitive and a Yoga Teacher is a magical combination that offers so much both for our students and ourselves. But being highly sensitive comes with extra challenges that can mean we end up surviving rather than thriving. What happens when overwhelm takes over?

Being a Yoga Teacher does not make us immune to feelings of stress, overwhelm and anxiety. We practice and teach Yoga because of the love of it, but as natural empaths, being Highly Sensitive can make us prone to over-giving to others, while under resourcing ourselves. This does not need to be, and should not be the case. We can be empathic, yet boundaried and we can give to our students, from a cup full rather than empty. In understanding ourselves better and…