Working with my coaching clients, I often hear two incorrect statements; ‘Building a business is expensive!’ or ‘To build my business, I need a loan or investor.’ I don’t want to neglect that depending on the type of business you want to build there may be some expenses. For example, if open a local studio, you may have to pay rent and buy equipment. However, the majority of our community members are considering an online business. They want to serve a bigger audience, gain financial stability and obtain the freedom to travel and teach wherever they like. If that’s your case too, stay with me! In this blog I’ll explain what it actually costs to build your business!

So, let’s come back to those statements ‘Building a business is expensive!’ or ‘To build my business, I need a loan or investor.’. These statements raise two questions: what do you need a lean for? And have you actually looked into what you need?

From my experience building an online business consisting out of an online learning platform with 12+ self-paced courses, 2 coaching programmes, blog, podcast and 5K community which is growing by the day, I can tell you that these beliefs are false.

Building a business is an investment in your future, wellbeing, sense of purpose and fulfilment. If you still believe that building a business is a monetary investment, I invite you to redefine the word investment.

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Redefine the word investment!

When you’re starting out, it’s natural to feel uncertain about the investments needed to thrive. You may not know where you start. You may overthink the cost of building and hosting your website, using an email software, or needing equipment like a mic, camera and light to record your classes.

Lack of clarity on your investments may hold you back or make you fear that it takes a long time to pay off. Chances are you push your dream to build your career and business forward based on false beliefs on what it costs… Instead of having these fears, insecurities or lack of knowledge take over – I want to help you understand the true cost of embarking on your entrepreneurial path.

It’s the key that unlocks the door to confidently pursuing your purpose in the wellness world.

The investments I made in my first business year

Let me reveal what will probably come as a surprise… My monetary investments during my first business year were $0!

To write my courses, build online presence and record learning materials (video and audio) I already had everything I needed. And most of you do too! If you have a laptop or a phone with a working camera and mic and wifi – you’re golden.

For project management and software integration I signed up for free versions only.

• Canva to create social media posts and course materials.
• Calendly (online calendar) to have my clients book their sessions.
• MailerLite to collect and nurture my email subscribers.
• iMovie (which is a free editing software for Mac) to edit videos.
• Asana for project management. (I’d now suggest to use ClickUp)

As you see now, when you’re starting out, building online services doesn’t have to cost you anything. It’s about understanding what you truly need, doing research and finding creative ways to save money!

Remember I said you need to redefine the word ‘investment’? Let’s have a look at what I mean by that!

What it actually costs to build a business!

Let’s be honest, because building a business comes with a cost. As yoga teachers and wellness enthusiasts you may be familiar with the Yamas and Niyamas. They are ethics by which we live (and I strongly suggest to apply these to the way you do business too). But for now, let’s look at the Yama: Bramacharya.

If I were to give Bramacharya a one sentence definition it would be to ‘spend your energy wisely’. Energy is spent on our thoughts, emotions, and daily activities. This can include

• how we manage time
• the tasks and activities we choose to engage in
• your learnings; personal and professional development
• how and with whom we interact
• what we consume — nutrition, news, media and social media

The reason I bring these things up is because energy is an investment! Especially in the beginning, energy is the actual cost of building your business. So, let’s dive a little deeper in your investments when building purpose-driven career:

Time invesments

This can include the hours you spend on learning, planning, and executing.

On a day to day basis investing time can be

• Admin tasks: replying to emails, private messages or scheduling your social media content
• Creation: designing your social media posts, or creating blogs or podcasts or writing your writing outlines for your classes and sessions.
• Building community: authentic connection with your community members, building and nurturing your relationships, and offering resources and support.
• Networking: interacting with people and organisations you love to set up partnerships and collaborations.
• Learning: listening to podcasts, reading books, attending events and possibly joining courses or working with a coach which can be free or paid options.

In terms of your projects think of:

• Consciously managing excitement: before diving in without structure and clarity, build a plan or strategy to make your projects come to live.
• Project management: planning, managing different tasks, allowing your to-do lists to pile up and remembering that not everything needs to happen today, this week or this month.

And if you’re building a multilingual business also think of creating multilingual content to resonate with diverse audiences, or market research to culturally sensitive advertising strategies.

Mindset investment

The way you do anything is the way you do everything. As a wellness enthusiast, you’ll probably be familiar with this phrase. What it means is this context is that how you prioritise your personal mental health reflect the way you show up in your business.

Investing in your mindset and mental health is key. As a business owner you’re no longer ‘just a teacher, guide, or mentor’. You take on several roles and tasks that may be new to you. Therefore, you need to invest in the tools and practices that help you stay positive, adaptable, and open to learning. Think of investing in overcoming obstacles like Fear of Failure, Impostor Syndrome, Perfectionism, Scarcity Mindset, Fear of Rejection, Comfort Zone Resistance, Lack of Self-Belief. All of these concepts are very very common among new, but also well-known business owners. Ask any successful entrepreneur about the ingredients to their success and I can already tell you that investing in their mindset is one of them.

Investing time and energy in overcoming fears and limiting beliefs, and maintaining mental health could look like:

• Embracing challenges as opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Remaining open-minded to diverse beliefs and practices while staying true to your teaching style.
• Seeing your setbacks as set-ups instead and not letting rejections or obstacles make you stop.
• Practising postive affirmations, shifting from scarcity to abundance, and daring yourself to do things that feel scary or uncomfortable. Fear is courage becoming known
• Prioritising your practices (yoga, meditation, journaling or activities to recharge and prevent burnout. To fuel your energy, stay inspired and motivated building your international career.

Personal & professional growth

Building a business is not just about your career growth but your personal evolution. I already mentioned that prioritising your mental health reflects the way you show up. But also remember that in you’re business, you’re the same person as who you are in your daily life. Your tasks and responsibilities will be different. Your values and boundaries will show up differently. The way you apply skills and knowledge may be different, but you’re still the same person!

Managing investing energy in your development could be to

• Invest in learning new business tools and finding ways to optimise your project management and marketing strategies.
• Focusing on one task at the time to not get overwhelmed
• Attending webinars, workshops or courses, but only take only what you need right now and later come back when you’re ready to learn and absorb more.
• Enhancing your skills and knowledge as a teacher, guide, or coach to gain experience, build confidence, improve your expertise, stay updated and offer enriched experiences.
• Surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals that inspire, support and hold you accountable and give you feedback.

Resources and technology investments

I already mentioned that most of the equipment you need to start building your business, you most likely have. When it comes to investing in resources and technology, I also mentioned that most softwares or digital tools offer a free version which are excellent for when you’re starting out.

Except from Canva, MailerLite, Calendly, iMovie or Asana, also think of Google meet for your live sessions or ChatGPT for your written content creation.

Your international career is closer than you think!

Your entrepreneurial journey only feels far away if you keep seeing it that way! You see now that investments in equipment and softwares shouldn’t hold you back! Building a business requires dedication, resilience and an open mind to learning and development. It’s an investment in your future, wellbeing, sense of purpose and fulfilment.

If you’re ready to learn more and would like to invest in your education, to find structure, clarity, receive the tools, methods and strategies and feel supported building your very own purpose-driven business. I’d love to mention a few of the ways in which you can work with me:

>>> Build Your Business – 4-Day Immersion

Carve out your career path and establish a business model that suits your energy levels and ideal lifestyle. Make an informed decision on your language of operation and find out what types of products suit you and your clientele. Replace overwhelm with excitement getting to serve your students in your way.

>>> Launch & Expand Your International Career

In this 6 month programme you’ll receive the support to learn the skills and systems to feel capable, focussed, and connected on your entrepreneurial journey. From content writing, to attracting the right clients, creating your products and selling them with success. In this programme you’ll expand your network of global wellpreneurs and learn the structure and strategies to build and expand your international business.

In both programmes I offer hands-on guidance, personalised guidance. It’s where I can directly provide you with constructive feedback, new ideas and eye opening insights. I’m committed to seeing you grow and experience success. To make you feel you know what you’re doing and offer reminders you of what you’re doing it for! Here you have my full support and accountability.

Want to know What Type of Business Suits You?

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As we’re approaching the end of the year and I did my yearly reflection, I realised how much I’ve changed my business approach. In this blog, I’m sharing the major insights I had that improved my business approach. My intention? Provide you with 4 major lessons that will change the way you do business!

A little look behind the scenes

In the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey I was extremely driven and excited to start working for myself. I felt my purpose was to create courses and programmes. I had lots of teaching experience and knew my ideas would help people grow. At that time, I thought that my ideas and experience were all that counted. But little did I know…

I dove straight into creating my products; lined out the curriculum and designed learning materials. I was convinced it was going to be a huge success, but when I launched them, no one signed up.

My problem was that I started from scratch and only then found out that I had no idea what it takes to build a business or simply sell services. I realised that being a teacher isn’t the same as being a business owner and my transition started.

From teacher to business owner

I invested in business education and started working with a coach. She taught that to successfully sell my programmes I needed a community. That our clients go through phases before they’re ready to buy. That these phases help you understand their needs and help you create products they’re actually waiting for. There I learned what happens behind the scenes. From building a website, sales pages, email marketing, to creating a content plan that educates, informs, engages and entertains your future students. All this happened in 2019-2020. So, these learnings weren’t new for me this year. In the last four years, they brought me lots of success and allowed me to live, work and travel on my terms. However, I felt that to scale, grow and evolve, something about my strategies needed to change.

Your business starts with you, not with your product!

In my year reflection last year, I shared that I suffered from burnout. This was due to a combination of things, but the core of it all was that wasn’t fully true to myself. In my role as a business owner it meant I followed other people’s approaches and copied the marketing techniques that worked for them. I blindly trusted their strategies would work for me too and overworked myself, keeping up with trends and trying to apply them to my business.

I looked at my core values and realised I wasn’t being true to them either. Out of scarcity, FOMO, and an ego of pleasing and overachieving, I lost touch with my authenticity. Authenticity as a business owner to me means knowing who you are and honouring where you’re at. But most of all trusting yourself, being yourself, and embracing all your unique qualities. To unite these qualities with your values and desires and let those things determine the way you do business. To listen to intuition and not let fear or lack of knowledge, skill and experience hold you back. But also, honour where you’re at and that learnings never stops. To take responsibility and invest in education and development to fulfil your purpose.

So, that’s why I did. I reflected on what worked and didn’t. Reviewed my schedule and set clearer boundaries. I dedicated time to analyse my strategies and decided to throw out everything that no longer served me to make room for a fresh slate.

All of this resulted in major changes at Enga Unite:

• I onboarded new team members to help me with community management, social media, and tasks behind the scenes so that I have more time and energy to spend on thing that most need my attention.
• I turned the live programmes into self-paced courses and modules so that I have more time to spend with my students. 
• I invested in more business coaching to elevate my expertise, feel supported and receive feedback from my coach.
• I prioritised collaborations to share my journey, grow our community and stay inspired.
• I upgraded the product suite and launched many new programmes to help you teach yoga in English and build an international career and not be dependent on the live programmes only. 
• And I travelled more, because I know that by the beach I feel most energised, grounded and aligned. 

These changes is what bring me here today. I want to prevent you from diving all in without structure and clarity. And share my major business insights so that you don’t blindly copy what other people do and what seems to work from them. But instead, build your business on your terms, and experience more freedom and fulfilment from day one! 

4 Major Lessons That Will Change The Way You Do Business

1. Your business starts with you, not your product. 

• Based on my journey, you see now how important it is to shape your services around the things you love and make you feel alive. Not what seems to work for others, seems profitable or feels save.
• Your students choose to work with you, for you, not for your product only. Genuine passion and purpose shine through. And those things resonate with your clients, not a profit-driven service. Authenticity is key! So unite your unique qualities to create offerings that truly align with your personality, passions, interests, ideal lifestyle, and energy levels. 

2. Allow your to-do list to pile up! 

• Building a business isn’t something you in one day. Neither isn’t something that ever finishes. When working with my clients I often see that they feel overwhelmed by their endless to-do list. A list that either causes them to postpone or do everything at once.
• As a business owner, learn to prioritise. Allow yourself to dream and have big goals. You’re building a business for the foreseeable future. So you’ve got more than enough time to fulfil your aspirations. It’s okay to have pending tasks. Embrace timing and take things one step at the time. Allow your to do list to pile up, because not everything needs to get done today, this week, or this month. 

3. Building a business isn’t a one-man’s job

• This lesson refers to many things at once. They key thing we need to remember is that we learn and evolve in companionship. And we can only truly grow by receiving support. You can receive support in many different ways.
• Support from your partner, friends or family members, that give you the time and space to work on your business.
• Support from your network by exchanging tips, tricks, feedback or building partnerships and collaborations.
• Support from a team that help you with repetitive tasks, technical aspects that take up too much time or tasks that don’t require your direct attention.
• Support from a coach or mentor who’s lived and experienced what you’re going through. Who can hold your hand, providing you with clear action steps, constructive feedback and strategies that could work for you.
• In other words, surround yourself with people that inspire you and help you grow. To feel supported, held accountable, and stay inspired, we need new insights and perspectives from others. Building a business isn’t something you can do alone.

4. Allow yourself to be a beginner! 

• In life we experience many ‘first times’. Teaching your first class, attending your first retreat, the first time you’re invited as a guest speaker. These first times may not be your best, but they give you a taste and inspire you to do more of. We become more skilled or get better at it and find something new in what we’ve experience before.
• The same counts for your business. Many new wellpreneurs get anxious and show symtomps of perfectionism. But if all wait until things are perfect, I seriously wonder what would get done! Your first post, freebie, programme, sale, but also failure and success won’t be your last. With experience you learn new things, find out what works, doesn’t work, what you want to do more of or what should stay a one-time thing. We all need to start somewhere and only with experience you’ll become more skilled or get better at it. And find ways to improve or something new in what we’ve experience before. 

Your purpose-driven career and business only feel far away if you keep thinking it’s in the future.

The future is unpredictable, but your present thoughts influence your actions.

The trick is to already step into the shoes of a business owner and let your future self rule today!

If you’re somewhat like me and like to consciously adjust the way you spend your time and energy so that you can work, travel, and live on your terms… I’d love to see you at the workshop series Craft Your Path to Purposeful Entrepreneurship!

Craft Your Path to Purposeful Entrepreneurship

Workshop Series: 19 & 29 December 2023 | 9 & 12 January 2024

My intention for this workshop series it to help you

• Reflect on your year without judgement, but see all you’ve done as learning opportunities
• Set intuitive goals that feel right, managable and aligned
• Build the awareness of your role as a business owner and transition with ease!
• Decide on your language of operation (because as a multilingual speaker, you may fear this choice may affect your reach and competition).

>>> Check out the workshop series.

>>> Join the workshop series for only $87 (3 + 1 for free)

In this blog, we elaborate on our previous post. There I explained how to unite your authentic qualities. Specifically, we’ll dive into how you can revolutionise your purpose to build a sustainable yoga career.

I just got back from a 4 day festival in the desert of Morocco where I connected with 70 nomads on a conscious entrepreneurial journey. All of them built their business own their terms to either move abroad or have the freedom to travel and work from wherever they want. Some do this through offering somatic practices. Others help you work through childhood conditioning. Again others offer tools like Human Design or Sound Healing. The beauty of this is that we’re so diverse, but all unite through the intention of doing meaningful work.

Among our community members I see the same desire. To quit the office job that doesn’t fulfil you; break free from doing what you think you’re expected to do; stop taking on jobs only to pay the bills; or find ways to stop playing small, because your inner critic doesn’t fully believe you’re capable to choose the life you want (yet).

I know that you’re more than ‘just’ a yoga teacher and that you have a package of skills, experiences and expertise that make you you. A package that you can turn into your business or career. To build the life you want, experience freedom and fulfilment and do purpose-driven work.

If you feel stuck, contemplating your yoga business or international career… 🔥🌍

It may be that you’re overthinking the tools and practices you could offer, instead of leading with your true purpose.

What I mean with that, is that for example:

• You overthink how you can create a class package.
• How you can combine your experience teaching yoga and hosting women circles.
• How to shape your meditation practices.

In other words, you overthink the structure of the tools you want to offer.

Yoga teachers often get stuck, thinking of profitable ideas. But that truly isn’t sustainable. Instead you want to lay the foundation of your international yoga business by gaining clarity on your reason why.

In this training, I want to help you shift your perspective and build your career with intention, nurturing a lasting impact. It’ll help you to break free from the conventional path and explore a deeper understanding of the elements that set you up for success.

Let’s recap how to unite your authentic qualities for entrepreneurial success.

1. Knowing and embracing your unique qualities for entrepreneurial success is often blocked by three key barriers: self-doubt, lack of experience, and gaps in education. To overcome these barriers, you’ll need to invest in all three of them.
   
   Whether it’s building confidence, gaining experience, or gaining more education, they form a relationship. Education leads to experience, and experience cultivates confidence. Then this confidence helps you to gain more of the first two too. They create a domino effect that’s essential for entrepreneurial success.
   
2. To unite your authentic qualities look at your life experiences, education, skills and transferable skills, hobbies, interests, and passions. Uniting these allows you to craft a business model authentic to you. A specific service with specific outcome.
   
   Apart from that you build a career based on passion-driven work. This in return attracts committed students, that seek these specific outcomes. This commitment leads to a fulfilling teaching experience and helps you stand out as a service provider, teacher, coach or whatever you want to call yourself.

In summary, each piece—confidence, experience, education, and unique qualities—fit together like a puzzle. By addressing each of them individually, you create a path for a purposeful and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey!

If you want to dive deeper into how to unite these qualities or recognise them, I highly suggest to read the blog, watch the replay on Instagram or listen to it on our podcast.

Why your business starts with you, not an idea that seems profitable.

or how to revolutionise your purpose to build a sustainable international yoga career.

When working with coaching clients, I see it time and time again. Most people are overthinking ‘what’ they want to create, instead of ‘why’. The ‘what’ is important too, but it comes much later.

You may overthink what you’re going to create, because of the three barriers I told you about earlier. (Self-doubt, lack of experience, and gaps in education). But it could also be that you simply don’t know where to start or lack knowledge of business processes and marketing.

The reason why you’re doing it is the most important. The ‘why’ informs ‘how’ you’re going to do it. And ‘how’ decides ‘what’ you’ll eventually create. This concept I was taught by Simon Sinek and it’s what I teach you in much more depth in our International Business Foundation course. It helps you to shift your perspective.

Instead of building a career from a place of scarcity, limiting beliefs, comparison, or fear of failure it helps you operate from a place of abundance and fulfilment. Allowing you to trusting your path, purpose, and process.

Understanding your ‘why,’ ‘how,’ and ‘what’ are the key pillars of your entrepreneurial journey. They guide your vision, goal-setting, work ethics and shape your approach to crafting your services.

‘Why,’ ‘How,’ and ‘What’

As mentioned in the International Business Foundation course I teach you how to become ultra clear on what these three words mean for you personally and in your business. We’ll:

• Unveil the ‘why’: Discovering your purpose, values, and calling.
• Explore the ‘how’: Identifying your skills, interests, and fulfilling actions.
• Define the ‘what’: How ‘why’ and ‘how’ shape your services, products, and offerings

Uniting your ‘why,’ ‘how,’ and ‘what’ are essence or the foundation of your business identity. They define your decision-making, the way you work and your product creation. For now, to revolutionise your purpose to build a sustainable international yoga career start by gaining clarity on your reason why. Your reason why should be a fusion of purpose, desire, values, and inner calling.

If you want to build a sustainable and fulfilling international business or career path, but you feel stuck because of these things. I suggest to have a think and possibly journal on the things or activities that:

• Light you up
• Make you feel alive
• Make you feel connected
• Make you feel aligned
• Bring you a sense of joy, freedom, fulfilment
• You can speak about all day

And also, the type of questions you love answering.

All of these, usually will be part of your reason why!

Launch & Expand Your International Career Programme

If you want to set yourself up for a purposeful career, equip yourself with skills, knowledge, and a network for global yoga business success. I’d love for you to join the waitlist for the Launch & Expand Your International Career Programme. Apart from the ‘why’, ‘how’, and ‘what’ you’ll:

• Explore business models, teaching formats: in-person and online teaching, and product creation
• Choose the language(s) you want work with in your business or career
• Define your ideal client and get the tools for effective market research.
• Understand social visibility, decide on your social channels, and find out what to post
• Receive effective methods for project management and implementing growth strategies

And of course, this programme will include personalised guidance for your unique yoga business or career path. Check out the programme here and sign up to the waitlist! Your dreams are worth it, and I’m here to support you every step of the way. 🤗🚀

To conclude today’s training, to revolutionise your purpose and build a sustainable international yoga career, the essence lies in aligning your personal values and entrepreneurial ambitions.

Shift from the practical ‘What type of products, services, or offerings should I create?’ to ‘What’s my mission and purpose?’. Reflect on your motivations to recognise the force behind your entrepreneurial goals.

Take a moment to look at what truly inspires you, what fuels your passion, and what resonates deeply within your being. I see your business as an extension of who you are, an embodiment of your values and aspirations. So let all the qualities that make you you unite and be the path towards a purposeful and successful entrepreneurial yoga career.

Teaching yoga in English means you can work while you travel (or move abroad). You can expand your job opportunities and network. And even form collaborations with people all over the world. Today, let’s elaborate on our previous post. Here I told you how to begin your entrepreneurial journey and know if you’re ready to become your own boss. Specifically we’ll speak about how you can blend all your life experiences. Including your skills, hobbies, interests, and passions to create your own services. In other words, how to unite your authentic qualities for entrepreneurial success! Let’s begin…

I’m writing to you from Morocco today and it’s the 5th time I’m visiting this place within one year…

You may ask ‘why’?

Because…

… I love to travel, learn languages and get immersed in different cultures.

… it’s a popular destination for yoga retreats, workshops, and events.

… the people, food, and weather are amazing and cost of living cheap.

… I’ve made great connections that are active in the same industry. People whom I get to share incredible experiences with that fulfil and inspire me.

Why am I sharing this?

Because I know that we’re likeminded. You also have the dream to build an international teacher career. A career where making connections and going on adventures like these are possible! And I know that is possible for you when you unite your authentic qualities for entrepreneurial success!

These blogs aim at helping you build your career on your terms. Because, learning to teach yoga in English is one thing… the next step is to actually doing it!

Let’s recap the concept of the inner calling.

Previously I explained that your inner calling is a personal and intuitive direction that comes from within. It can be experienced as an inner voice that guides you toward a particular path or goal. But also as gut feelings, intuitive insights, passions, a burning desire, actions aligned with your values or a sense of purpose. For many, it’s a certain path that you know is right, even if you can’t logically explain why. Some of you wrote to me explaining their thoughts, fears and challenges.

For example: the desire to teach yoga, but feeling that working an office job is safer and stabler. Others shared that they fear competition. And again others said that they need to do “things” first. These types of statements, which I consider fears and limiting beliefs make it hard to listen to your inner calling. When experiencing self-doubt, you question your experience is enough. Or think you need more education to pursue your dreams. It can cloud that inner calling and blocks your from following your purpose. What I see here is a pattern. When not following your purpose, inner calling or building on your career, your inner calling is usually blocked. This block can be either of the three following ‘lacks’:

• Self-doubt
• Experience
• Education 

Self-doubt

“I think others are better than me…” or “I’ll never be as good or better than them…”, followed by the common thought “…so why would anyone sign up for my services?”. This is a comparison that links to self-doubt.

If you doubt your skills and experience it’s often because you haven’t found your voice. And when you haven’t found your voice, it’s because you haven’t invested in gaining experience. Instead of comparing yourself to others; their success, the way they teach, how well they teach or how good their offers are, shift your perspective and see them as inspiration. Learn from them and make it your own. Or admire people for being themselves. See them as inspiration to find your authentic expression too. By gaining experience your authentic voice will develop. And you’ll build the confidence to let your personality shine through.

Lack of experience

“First… I need to gain more experience”, or “First, I need to raise my child.”, or “First, I need to safe more money so that I can invest in my business.”.

These are logical thoughts that come from rational thinking. Meaning you’ve surpassed your inner calling and focus on all that you don’t have. Often by questioning your experience is enough. If you haven’t completed YTT then, yes, I do suggest to become certified. Yet, many have the tendency to complete training after training without actually starting to teach. In that case, it’s not a lack of education, but again self-doubt. Your confidence isn’t going to grow with the number of certificates you get. To feel yourself teaching yoga comes from practice. So ask yourself: “Do I truly lack education or didn’t I have the opportunity to put my knowledge into practice?”. Knowledge is one thing, but being able to use it is another. So be honest with yourself. Completing training after training isn’t going to give you confidence, experience will. 

To build experience and overcome self-doubt, go to the Your Yoga in English podcast. There, I’ve shared many episodes to improve your language, communication and teaching skills.

Lack of education

Going back to when you haven’t finished your YTT (yet). If you lack the education there’s only one solution. Enrol in courses that provide you with the adequate training to become certified! But after that, remember that knowledge alone isn’t enough. Don’t get caught in a never-ending cycle of training after training. Experience is the ultimate confidence booster.

Remind yourself of your purpose!

I can’t look into your calendars, to-do lists and responsibilities. And it may be easy for me to say: “Get out out there to gain the experience and build confidence”. But, what I do know is that your brain is wired to learn!

If you set your mind to something and keep reminding yourself of your purpose, you’ll find the drive to learn. Through learning and experience you’ll overcome self-doubt. Speaking of entrepreneurial success, building systems and strategies are skills too! They aren’t talents you have or not, you can learn anything! 

How do you unite your authentic qualities for entrepreneurial success?

Working on building confidence, gaining experience, or obtaining education will impact each other. It’s a domino effect! Through education you gain experience and through experience you build confidence. They’re all intertwined. And ultimately what you do when you unite  unite your authentic qualities for entrepreneurial success.

On this journey, you’ll also gain lots of self-awareness. Which in return allows you to see your unique qualities. You’re more than a yoga teacher; you have a life full of experiences and possibly other types of education. You most likely have work experience in a completely different profession. You have hobbies, passions, interests or other skills that you can combine with yoga. Unite your unique qualities to create services that have a specific outcome. A specific outcome can be a solution to a problem, wish, or desire. Take for example Enga Unite. As I’m speaking from experience, I also…

• Listened to my inner calling
• Defined my skills, passions and interests
• Created English for yoga courses
• Grew into my role and shifted purpose
• Help you build your career! 

Let’s have a look at some examples of students that worked with me:

• Julia started teaching yoga to tailors! 
• Vanessa is creating a programme of yoga for belly dancers: uniting yoga and dance
• Tabea works on yoga and lifestyle practices for athletes and boxers 
• Daniela combined yoga and her passion for nutrition. She including recipes and ingredients from her home country Mexico.
• Ana Clara teaches yoga for rock climbers.
• Barbara is a yoga and life coach for female entrepreneurs.
• Marjo combines yoga, Ayurveda and massage to host her own retreats.

Yoga is universal

All these teachers united the qualities unique to them for entrepreneurial success. To combines their passions and skills to build their services, products and business.

Yoga offers so many benefits on so many different levels. It’s a practice that support every single person and every type of lifestyle. So you can combine or offer it to everyone! The practice can be adapted for everyone and combined with diverse interests. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel; unite your qualities to teach what you know and love. I know that you have skills that you probably never considered uniting with yoga. But use your imagination and creativity, because the options here are limitless!

The benefits of uniting your authentic qualities for entrepreneurial success

Just as I want you to find your voice to teach and express yourself authentically. To build your career or business, I want you to stay true to your passions and interests. Because they’re part of your personality and authenticity. What better way than to be of service than uniting the qualities that make you you? And by that share ALL you love! Apart from showing up authentically, there are more benefits to uniting your qualities:

1. Passion-driven work is more motivating and less laborious.
2. Specific offerings have clear outcomes and attract more committed students.
3. Committed students provides you with a fulfilling teaching experience.
4. Fulfilment for the teacher, plus measurable progress means student retention.
5. And finally, it helps you stand out in the competitive yoga field.

See how here again, we’re creating a domino effect. Or let’s use a different metaphor: a puzzle! There are many different puzzle pieces that make your set complete. But the first need to be put in place for the next to logically fit (or happen). In the next blog, I’ll explain these benefits more in-depth. For now,

• Reflect and work on your lack of self-doubt, experience and education.
• Define your authentic qualities and look at how you can unite them with yogic practices.

There’s a teacher for everyone and students for every teacher! 

I hope this inspires you to unite your passion for yoga with all the things that make you you! That this blog empowers you to combine your qualities to guide others in your unique way. Because yoga is yet to be discovered by many people around the world.

Launch and Expand Your International Yoga Career

Are you eager to take this journey even further? And explore the path to building an international career?

Check out the Launch & Expand Your International Career Programme. Here I share the key to crafting your very own international yoga business.

What to expect:

• Discover the power of starting with ‘why’
• Explore business models, in-person and online teaching, and product creation
• Build a solid foundation by defining your ideal client and conducting market research
• Select the right visibility, social channels and find out what to post
• Understand project management and implement effective growth strategies

And of course, this programme will be packed with personalised guidance and in-depth training to nurture your unique yoga business. I invite you to check out the programme here and sign up to the waitlist! Your dreams are worth it, and I’m here to support you every step of the way.