Yoga Instructor

**Core Job Function**:Yoga Instructor

**Workplace Type**: Retail Office

**Area**:Northriding, Randburg, Gauteng / Sandton

**Salary**: Basic + Commission

**Role Description**

Our client aims to make lives easier and they are currently looking to employ an experienced and certified Yoga Instructor to create a Zen experience.

The yoga instructor is responsible for performing yoga poses in precise alignment, using the correct terminology, and safely guiding students through the flow of the practice. You should also be knowledgeable in the implementation of the chakra system and mindful meditation.

To ensure success as a yoga instructor, you should possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills in order to build relationships, as well as lead yoga sessions. Your passion for health and wellness, coupled with knowledge of the anatomy of the human body and physiology, will ensure success.

**Yoga Instructor Responsibilities**:

- Conduct and lead yoga classes
- Visually assess students to determine their level of practice
- Assist students to achieve precise alignment
- Demonstrate practice and teach techniques
- Possess the ability to move energy through the body
- Transform energy during the warm-up, build-up and cool-down stages
- Motivate students with words of encouragement
- Connect with students during the yoga classes through fun and intelligent sequencing
- Offer training recommendations to improve the practice of yoga
- Ensure all administrative duties are attended to
- Manage and assist customers on our CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system
- Update customer information, order meta and product data on a regular basis
- Learn and follow a comprehensive sales, marketing, operations and delivery cycle
- Capture and document sales orders, invoices, GRNs and any other relevant data/documents on our accounting system
- Calculate, document, manage and communicate customer billings, quotations, invoices, delivery notes and refunds
- Consistently improve conversion rates throughout our organisation
- Optimise daily leads and enquiries effectively
- Establish long term customer loyalty and adapt to various customer requests
- Learn and adapt to our sales, delivery, operations and marketing cycle with ease
- Exceed daily, weekly and monthly performance targets
- Deliver high quality personalised support
- Display Initiative and creativity in your work to ensure the needs of our customers are met and exceeded on a regular basis
- Drive product sales with superior sales strategy
- Learn and demonstrate advanced product knowledge
- Liaise with all departments including but not limited to sales, logistics, procurement, operations, marketing and accounting
- Schedule and manage client requests on a regular basis
- Provide excellent customer service throughout our organisation
- Source, convert and maintain leads with a target driven approach
- Collaborate and assist other employees with our website, CRM, sales, marketing and operations as a whole
- Provide excellent follow up service
- Demonstrate natural product appeal to customers based on our brand and sales strategy
- Communicate with customers effectively across multiple support channels
- Liaise with the marketing department to develop new sales strategies
- Collaborate and assist the sales team with administrative duties and sales tactics
- Consistently provide target market and competitor data for additional analyses
- Ad hoc tasks will be required
- Group assistance will also be required

**Preferred Yoga Instructor Requirements**:

- Yoga certification
- Minimum of 1-2 years of experience
- CPR/First Aid certification
- Education or experience in health and fitness is preferable
- Business and administration skills
- Ability to work after-hours, on weekends and public holidays, as needed

**Individual Requirements**
- Own transport with valid driver’s license
- Able to work retail office hours, including weekends and public holidays
- Sales and admin orientated
- Organised
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent customer service orientation
- Ability to multitask
- Have the ability to learn quickly
- Creative and passionate
- Energetic and enthusiastic
- Master of Eloquence
- Work well with a team
- Adapts easily to change
- Manage pressure and stress easily
- Work without supervision
- Fluent in English, Other language skills are a plus but not a must
- Problem-solving thinker
- Committed and reliable
- Customer experience orientated

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

Expected hours: 20 - 40 per week

Application Question(s):

- What is your Current Salary?
- What is your Expected Salary?

**Experience**:

- Yoga: 2 years (preferred)

License/Certification:

- Yoga License / Certificate (preferred)