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153: Integrity Beyond the Metrics: Community Conversations with Elena Cheung
As we close out the year, how do we, as yoga teachers, gauge our progress? How can we assess our success?
Today, host Rachel and returning guest Elena Cheung share their answers to these questions. We discuss why one-dimensional metrics like ratings, reviews, students numbers, online likes and follows are so appealing, as well as the complexities of teaching that they fail to capture.
Listen to this episode to learn how to balance your interests and values with the needs of your students, and how to meaningfully reflect on your work as a yoga teacher.
“The less I care about external metrics, the happier I feel.” – Elena Cheung
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“It’s okay that it feels complex and crazy-making and it’s okay that there is no easy answer…but it’s a part of the practice of being willing to sit with the discomfort. Everyone goes through this.” – Elena Cheung
Show Notes:
- Complexities that ratings & reviews don’t express [3:32]
- From “teacher knows best” to “the customer is always right”? [10:20]
- Navigating changing student tastes with integrity [13:06]
- The space that teaching experience creates around feedback [21:46]
- Why “objective” metrics appeal, and what they miss [26:12]
- How to gauge success as a yoga teacher [33:05]
- Final takeaways [47:27]
Links Mentioned:
- Watch this episode on YouTube
- Previous Yoga Medicine® Podcast Episodes:
- The Art of Teaching Impactful Group Classes Online Course
- Connect with Elena Cheung:
Instagram | Elena Shapeshifts | The Way Softness Moves | Yoga Medicine® Online Guest Teacher
“Being a yoga teacher can be, but it doesn’t only to be, teaching group classes. There are so many ways you can be in the yoga world that isn’t only teaching 60-minute group classes hot power vinyasa.” – Elena Cheung
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