#47 Childless Yoga Instructors Are More Successful

Another yoga-related article caught my eye today. The Coles Notes version is the author believes there's something behind the success of childless female yoga instructors. Her impression is when a woman teacher doesn't have children, she's better able to focus on her practice, further her spiritual development, and hence become a better teacher. Whether this choice to remain childless is by choice or circumstance is anyone's guess.

And what of the whole female-male discrepancy? The author mentions male teachers don't seem to have the same child-free lifestyle. How does it all fit together?

Here's one thought: Being female and a yoga teacher means to be a success you have to have less children than your male counterparts or no children at all. So by deduction, success means you can't be in a relationship of any kind or else it clouds you're focus. Maybe what we female yoga teachers need is a partner who is whiling to take on the supportive, parenting role in the relationship generally held by woman. Generally, men don't want this role solely and hence woman don't have the support they need to be exceptionally successful yoga teachers.

Or, you could argue people (aka men) prefer their limber, pretty yoga teachers to be single and available. Once they bring the kids and spouse to workshops, the fantasy is gone and interest wains.

What do you think? Let me know below.

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