295 - What Do Integrity and Authenticity Mean For Teachers?

Our energy impacts the rooms we lead. When we're navigating hard things in our personal lives, how do we show up and teach in ways that feel authentic and in integrity? How do we guide people effectively through things we might struggle with? Is that even okay to do? 

We explore some of these questions along the roles of trust, kindness, and vulnerability in navigating them.

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Transcript

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (00:03.074)
Hello, let's talk about balance. Okay, yeah, let's talk about balance today, y'alls. And let's talk about what imbalance looks like. And because you're doing all the damn things and you're trying to show up in your life and be a hell of a good human and leader. And sometimes life is a life in real hard and you're not sure if you can keep treading water. And you're like, wow.

what is sustainable here and where do I really want to go and how is my energy being used and how do I figure out how to hold all the damn things where it doesn't feel so overwhelming and can I take a breath?

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (00:48.846)
Yeah. Okay.

Now I'm just ready to lead some alternate nostril breathing. It's time. But for reals, long exhales. And you know, some primal screaming in there if you can. Maybe in your car, go to a parking lot and do some yelling. I actually like it when I can use my whole body though. So.

If I shared walls with people, be hard. Like I do like it that my house, I can just be loud and do some yelling sometimes, because it's necessary. Okay, but for real, I want to talk about integrity. And how do we show up even when we're going through it? And, you know, I feel like this is probably a topic that I've...

I've touched on before, but it came up recently because when I lead in-person flow school, I just, I have led the 10th in-person flow school and I'm over half full for April, 2026. So if you want to get in-person flow school, April and November, 2026 here in Portland, Oregon, so jump on it. But we have two Zoom group calls a month and two months afterwards. And we were just on this call and

some of the teachers are going through things. They're like, wow, my personal life, I'm blowing up my life. And I really love that oftentimes when people find me, when they choose to participate and drop in with me, that they're in some sort of life transition. That's very common. But also I think we're kind of always in transition, but maybe you see it and you're ready to make moves on it. And then here we are together. anyway, so it's such a gift. I just feel like it's such a gift because I understand.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (02:44.27)
I really understand and I have blown my life a couple of times, not necessarily on purpose, but that's what's happened. And I'm sitting here and I am glad to be sitting here. So what do you do? If your life is feeling like it's blowing up and you're being pulled in lot of directions and you need to walk in the room and leave the room as a studio owner, as a teacher, as somebody who

people are following and listening to and you're like, wait, but I am just figuring this out. And you have this question in the back of your head that kind of is nagging you like, who am I to be telling these people anything? To have any sort of Dharma talk to say like, this is what you need to do and maybe your body's hurting. And you're like, I'm telling them to do this for their body, but my body's hurting. And you're thinking, am I out of integrity?

Am I not doing what I'm saying? And so is this truly actually, even though they don't know, is this coming off ingenuous? Is this authentic? Is this real? And there's this question of confidence and what you're offering, how you're offering it and who you're really helping in the room. Now, if you're thinking this, just kudos first because you're a real one, right?

where you're thinking, how am I showing up and what is my impact? And am I being aware of who I am and understanding that the energy that each of us carries impacts the room? I love talking about this. We could talk about this for a long, long time. There's a lot of nuance of how you lead the room.

and the energy you leave the room with, it's so, there's so many aspects to this, but like truly your energetic body, which is invisible, but felt like gravity, right? You cannot see gravity, but you can see the effect of gravity. We stay on the ground, we do not float. You drop a glass of water, it goes down. So you see the effect of gravity, but you cannot see gravity. It is an invisible energy.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (05:05.55)
So we all have invisible energy. People who are deeply in love with each other. And there's like this, this pole, invisible energy, right? People who you meet and you're like, oh, there's something off. This isn't it. This isn't the thing. I remember once I was a resident assistant for an apartment complex years ago. And there was a dude that,

creeped me out and his name was Kevin, creepy Kevin. Sorry if your name is Kevin, you're listening to this. But there was a creepy Kevin and I called him creepy Kevin. I used that term, but I didn't hear the office ladies say that till like I was in there doing some things and they said, yeah, creepy Kevin. And I was like, my gosh, that's what I call him, creepy Kevin, right? It's a felt energy. There's no like tangible proof, but there is an energy to people. So if I walk in and I have a feeling in me,

it's going to be felt. So even just being aware of this is a good step number one, right? How are you holding the room? How are you leading the room? Number one, your energy impacts other people. So how do you show up and honor that energy that you're moving through your own life things, that you're not trying to shove that down, but you're also not trying to have your students hold you in it. That's not their job. You're there as a service provider.

Excuse me. You're there as a service provider and you're, recover from my sneeze. So when you show up in the room, you're not trying to have them hold you, but you can also be a human. There is a balance in that though. Okay, so just number one, let's say your energy impacts the room.

We know this, okay? We're going to be forthright about the acknowledging there's invisible energy from all of us. And some people don't like us and they don't even have a reason and that's fine. And some people love us and they don't even have a reason and that's fine. And some people are curious and that's fine. There's a lot of little things, little patterns we might notice as humans. We might not even realize that our brains are picking up. Cool, okay? So when you walk into the room and you're going through shit, how you walk in the room matters and you're gonna have to...

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (07:33.006)
put on the mantle of teacher. You're gonna have to put on the thing, put on the experience, put on the leadership cape and be like, great, I'm gonna put my cape on. And if you wanna imagine yourself with a cape, if you wanna decorate that cape in fun ways, in your brain, cool, right? It's not, it's open. You're underneath there, but this cape is something that you've gotta wear because you're the leader of the room.

This is where it's important to remind you that you can learn as you lead. If you are waiting to have everything solved in your life, if you said, I can teach when I understand X by Z. When would you teach? Never. You would never teach. Nobody ever would. So you get to learn as you lead. And if you are in integrity, meaning if you are showing up in the room,

acknowledging that your energy impacts other people and that they don't have to hold you, but you can be going through things and figuring out your own life while also offering something for students. This is where we trust the yoga. There's a phrase that I say all the time. I say it often to people in flow school. I'm like, trust the yoga as teachers. That's so important. Trust the yoga. What the hell does that mean? It means that you

as a student, if I'm the teacher, are going to get out of this class exactly what you need and maybe things that I don't even, like not just maybe, probably things that I don't even say. And things that I say are going to spark something in your brain that I didn't even intend. And I have no control over that. You are going to have an entire experience that I am unaware of because I am not in your head.

when you come to class. I think the gift of yoga class is that there is a designated space that you have your mat. You aren't having to decide what to do. There's somebody else telling you what to do. So it frees part of you up to be in this shower thought brain, right? Where you don't have a phone, you don't have groceries to buy, you don't have a toilet to clean, you don't have kids to take care of, you don't have an email to write. You literally have

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (10:00.088)
just you and your body for a set amount of time. And so it gets to be this experience that as a teacher, I do not have any control over what's happening inside of you. And as a teacher, that means I get to trust the process of yoga and I get to trust the people that are coming there that they're gonna get exactly what they need because I trust the yoga.

I trust that this practice that is a physical thing, but is also a non-visible thing, right? It's an invisible thing. Also, right? Both of those things, there's an and in there. That that is impacting students. So that means, so how is this helpful, right? Okay, let's personalize this a little bit. I could go lot different directions, but I'm gonna choose, first of all, when I was skateboarding,

A couple summers ago, I fell. I did not have my wrist guards on and I tore some cartilage, something, rip tendon, something. I don't know. There's not ever imaging done, but there was some damage that was done in the outer side of my right wrist. could not wait there. I couldn't even pick up a bowl. I couldn't put away a cup in the cupboard. Like I couldn't do, like it was so painful for so long. And it took me a year for it to heal before I could do a handstand again. And it was

It was really uncomfortable. So what happens when I'm a teacher and I'm going to class and I'm like, plank, everybody plank. Am I going to plank? No, I can't. So everybody knows then that I have a wrist injury. I'm like, y'all film a skateboard. I'm to demo on one side. So I'm demoing on one side and my wrist is injured. it put, so question here, does it put me out of integrity to then teach things where two hands are going down on the ground, but I cannot?

I believe that I was in integrity one because they understand that I'm injured and I'm speaking very clearly because number two, I know what plank is and I've experienced in my own body. I do think that we should teach things that we have experience with, that we have an embodied practice with. If you can't do something, it's really hard to teach people how to do the thing because you've never learned how to do the thing. I don't think you should teach handstands if you don't know how to handstand.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (12:31.006)
There might be some cases where that might not be the case, but I think by and large across the board, I think that's the easiest thing, right? Should you teach how to bake a cake if you've never baked a cake? How do you know it even works? Could you follow a recipe? Yes. If you have enough experience following recipes, then that's another thing. So we'll say like from scratch without a recipe, right? You gotta know your shit. Okay, so I...

I couldn't put my hand down, but I still could teach and students knew where I was coming from. I wasn't trying to have them gripe about it with me. It was just matter of fact, like this is what's up. When I had my low back pain and I could not fold, they knew that I was in pain. They knew that I was not going to be doing the folding things. Also when people fold, they can't even see you anyway. So as a teacher, that's not something you have to demo.

But I was also forthright with my body saying like, this is a reminder. I'm having some back pain right now. I'm going to be switching things up for myself, but I can still show up and teach the things. Now, if you're having low back pain, one of the things, this is just a little note because I was talking to another teacher about this last night. One of the things that I did that I felt like was really helpful, mean, the low back pain is multifaceted, but one of the things is

skipping yoga and actually doing more strength training. And I would so recommend that. Outside of any demoing for classes, I did not practice yoga at all and I picked up weights. And I truly think that makes a huge difference. So if you're having some hip and low back pain, whatnot, you might wanna look into that. Okay, so.

I, you we can talk about physical things. So I'm going to start here because I feel like it's the easiest. I can talk my wrist. I can talk about my back. I could talk about a knee injury that I had at one point. So we can, we can talk to these specific things or when we're sick or when we lose our voice, when you lose your voice, you really actually can't teach because you don't need your voice. Right. But these things are, are easy to pick up and say, Oh, well, I can still actually teach an integrity. So this gives us a good, um,

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (14:52.472)
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There are times when all of us are going through our own decision making process, right? And we are in the middle of a decision. that's so suck sometimes. I'm like, just get me through the decision. What's the decision? You're in middle of a decision or you're in the middle of a life upheaval. You are in a certain amount of stress. You need to show up, right? We know that our energy is speaking loud for us. So you might need to put on a cape.

You put on a cape, that does not mean you're trying to smash all your emotions down. It does mean that not everybody is privileged enough to be able to hold it with you. And it's not maybe appropriate everywhere for everyone to hold it with you. Sometimes the gift of being a teacher is that you actually get to put on your cape. Your cape, when I say that, I'm meaning...

You're gonna set down the things that you're trying to figure out in your life. You're gonna put on your teacher cape and be like, I'm gonna go in and teach. I put on my cape. I'm gonna cover up those things for a moment and I'm gonna hold them close. I'm holding them close under my cape because my students don't need this. This isn't for them. This is for me and I can learn as I lead. I can still stand in what I am trying to figure out in my life.

and still walk into the room and have something to give. I want you to think about a friend. I want you to think about a friend who maybe is a really amazing artist who can draw something really beautifully or play an instrument, right? So I'm thinking like these fine arts things like an instrument or some sort of like use your hand, draw something, paint something. Do they still have that gift?

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (17:05.717)
even if

they're navigating paying their taxes. Can they still play the piano if they already, they had a new baby and they're sleep deprived? Do they still have that gift? Yeah. Are they still able to paint a picture even if they broke their ankle? Yes.

Okay, so now there's some nuance and layers in this and does a broken ankle affect you and does a lack of sleep affect you? Yes. So these things can affect you like a hundred percent they will, but do they retain their gifts? Can they still draw a picture? Can they still practice? Do we need it? And I'm like, yes. Do we need practice time in order to hone our gifts? Yes. This is why flow school exists to hone your craft of teaching. This is why it exists.

Because we can't just like go to a training and then be down. We have to continually put it in us, not just out of us, but put it in us. Flow School is an opportunity to put it in you, not just be giving out of you. So if these friends that you can identify who are musicians or who are artists still have their gifts, even if they're navigating other life things, they don't really feel like they pertain to their gifts, but we all know you're going through breakup. What are you going to write music about? Maybe about a breakup, right? So they affect each other.

So let's take this to teaching. You have decided to pick up teaching. You're choosing this. You do not have to choose this. You are choosing it. And all of a sudden you're going through something that feels hella hard.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (18:50.656)
One of the gifts of showing up in that room might be that it's an opportunity to set down the hard thing. I've talked to many teachers who are like, I go to yoga and I'm like, okay, I can keep doing the other things because I can show up here and I can do this. I can teach people. Now there can be some nuance to, and I feel like I said that we're nuanced a lot of times in this, but this is because I feel like this topic is kind of a little bit tricky.

is do we just say, you know what, actually, like I can't hold anything else today and somebody else go in and sub for me. Okay, let's take it right now as I'm recording this, this is December. This is in the United States, which is a high holiday season. And there's a lot of family things. There could be sickness. There's like people feeling overwhelmed. So you call out, now another teacher is filling in for that. Like how many subs are we gonna get there? Like.

There's a tricky part here where there is times to actually get people to cover for you. Me, when my mom died, I had another class to teach that day. I could not teach the other class. Instead, I was mourning the loss, the sudden loss of my mom. It was not something that was appropriate for me to do in that moment. I could not hold myself because of her sudden death on the very day that I needed to teach a class.

and I actually learned about her death while I was in the middle of teaching, well, the very end of teaching a class. These are classes online. So can there be specific situations where that is the appropriate move? Yes. Yes. So I don't want you to come away from this podcast thinking, okay, this is the way. There is always an and and a bigger conversation to have, but I also want to empower you.

to show up and do the damn thing and keep moving yourself through the things.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (20:43.628)
I know that for me,

When I start to feel depressed, low, like overwhelmed by life things, not interested in things, when things get heavy, that it can be really easy to stop doing the things that bring you joy because you're just kind of not doing things. And the way over and over in my life that pulls me out of those little slumps.

is I think to myself, I'm like, okay, Bonnie, what do you love to do? I go do that. Even if you don't want to do it right now, if you just sit here, nothing moves. And then nothing moves. That's dis-ease, right? We have to move. We have to move things. So go move. And it might not be the thing that you end up doing, but in this moment, go do the thing that you know through so many years of your life that it moves you.

that it brings you into yourself in some way. And we all have way more than one thing that does that for us. And so maybe teaching is one of those things. You like you love to teach, like you love the feeling of it. You love watching bodies move. You love it when people can drop into themselves because everyone in that room is showing up with invisible heavy things. You are not alone in that room.

You are not alone in that room. Everyone is holding heavy things, even if you do not know.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (22:26.414)
They really are. And this is why we have to be so kind. That's why we have to be so kind. We have no idea, we cannot see the internal environment for each of us. We can only see what's on the outside. And it's not for everyone to know what it is we're holding because then we have to hold their response. And that's another weight. That's another weight. You have to hold everybody's...

I'm sorrys or how are yous or like what's going on today like with the thing and questions about it and sometimes you don't want to hold that.

I can be talking to a stranger and be like, I'm making my mom's roll recipe. And they could be like, okay, great. And I don't want to say, well, my mom died last year, right? It might not be the conversation I want to have. And I don't need to give that. That's maybe not the thing that I want to hold. And so it can be heavier actually to share the things. So, okay, here's my tips, okay? If you are a teacher and shit's feeling heavy,

And if you haven't picked anything up so far, Number one, your energy is felt. It's invisible energy, but there is an effect of it. So you're going to have to put yourself in your body, put yourself in the things that you love. Even when you're going through it. Y'all, went through a breakup the beginning this year that was rough. I'd be like crying for like three hours.

And then I was hosting something called the play experiment for the month of January, the entire month of January weekly, we had a zoom call and I showed up on that call after crying for three hours being like, what is my life right now? I would show up for an hour and talk about play. Now is this in integrity or is this not in integrity? To me, this is in integrity because I am more than one thing.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (24:35.534)
I can be navigating something in my personal life and be building this home in myself at the same time. I know how to talk about play. can drop into play and I could also start talking about how my middle kid is going to leave home next year. And I have two college kids and how sad I am about that at the same time as how excited I am about that. So I am more than one thing. So that doesn't put me out of integrity to show up in that moment of

my breakup as well as also knowing how play is important and how I just kind of laughed that whole month as like wow what a wild

line up of events and where I truly stand by what the play experience was also teaching and sharing and the impact of it and the impact of my own life. was a reminder to me that there was more than one thing in my life. So it was like my own teacher in it. We're all our own teachers. So you get to show up, you're more than one thing. And I didn't need to show up on that call and be like, I was just crying for three hours, y'all.

and like share that and drop that in there. That wasn't the space, that wasn't the container. So know the container that is the right container. Know the right people for that. The ones that can hold you that aren't gonna ask something from you to be held back in return. Like it's a lot, it's a lot. And is there seasons that are appropriate or are there situations that are appropriate for you to step back from? Yes, know those.

and get some support on asking questions about those. I hope you have a good relationship with your studio owner, with other teachers around you so that you can have that. And then how do you step into the studio then? Okay, so you're like, okay, fine, Bonnie, putting on this cape, hold my things close because not everybody deserves to be able to hold them with me. I don't even know what they're holding, right? You don't know what your students are holding. That might put them over to know that you are going through the thing. So now they're feeling bad that you're in the room to lead them.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (26:47.586)
but leading them is part of not only your gift, but something that frees you. Something that puts you deeply in the present moment. Gosh, we really need that.

So show up in the room and teach something you know. And sometimes in those times when things are feeling really hard to do, teach a class that you know works. I am big on teaching repetition and I'm big on repetition and teaching by repeating your classes. Come to Flow School, we talk about it a lot. And I am gonna run a Flow School online cohort January, 2026. So if you'll listen to that then...

This is going to be available. I haven't done one for a whole year. So pop it back on and teach something, know, repeat things. People like it actually, because then they get to drop deeper into their bodies. So you don't to spend as much time on creation time and teach the things that you know work because that's going to be easeful for your energy walking into the room to know that you're not trying to figure something else out. So I'm speaking specifically to Vinyasa teachers.

Use a playlist you've created. I reuse my playlist all the time. And then for theming, make it so easy. I really love using my own life as storytelling, but when you're in the thick of things, it's not the time because you want to share stories that you've processed, that you can actually give to the room as an expander, not as something that makes people contract. using your life might not be the appropriate thing unless

there are some things that are actually expanders. This is a time to use quotes from books, to use poems, to use ideas that help people drop into their own bodies. And that could be one word sort of things and then you say a couple words on it. Like make the theming of the class really easy too.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (28:56.184)
So how do you set yourself up for success? Because you're going to have the times. I'm going to have the times. You've probably like, if you come to my class, maybe I've been in the middle of a thing and you had no idea, but I'm more than one thing. So I can show up in the room, know that I love teaching, know that it is a gift that I have that I'm honing the craft of to teach. And so I can show up in the room and not be on my A game in every part of my life.

and still have that gift. Just like the person in your life who can play the instrument, play the piano, right? They don't have to be on their A game for everything in their life for the piano to still be played.

Now as we step up in front of the room, we do have to hold ourselves. There is a posture to us. You're going to have to take the breaths.

You're going to have to talk to yourself. You're probably going to have to have a mirror moment where you look in your eyes and you're like, I'm here and I could teach this class. All they have to do is help people move and breathe and rest. And if you're listening to this and finding this podcast in a time when you're in the middle of the things. I know what it's like. I know what it's like to look yourself in the mirror. I know what it's like to remind myself that I'm just here to help people move and breathe and rest.

I know what it's like to put on my cape, my teacher cape and say, I'm gonna go in there and I'm gonna be the teacher today. And the other things for you will wait, like the dishes, they're just waiting for you, right? And you get to be more than one thing. And just because you're navigating things in your life does not mean that you cannot be a leader. You gotta learn as you lead.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (30:49.846)
And in fact, the things that you're walking through in your life are going to impact and grow your leadership in ways that it would not otherwise be able to grow. It will be a gift to you in your leadership, the things that you're navigating. Being a mom, gosh, it teaches me a billion lessons. There are so many things that I learned from being a mother. And I am a better teacher, a better human, a better leader because

Because I am a mother. Because of what I have learned with my kids.

Is it hard sometimes? Yeah. Yeah. But I'm better because of it. And that is not necessarily what we all want to hear when we're in the middle of things like, you're going to be better because of this and this will be whatever. You're like, shut the fuck up. That's not helpful. But I just want to let you know from my own experience, like my mom dying. Nobody.

in the middle of their mom dying, especially if they're like surprised and close to their mom, want to be like, well, you're going to be better because of this. No. But am I now? Yeah. Because death is real present and it has changed the way that I make decisions. It's changed my brain. I've been born a different person and you're going to wake up in the morning and be born a different person because you've had today and born the next day. And if we continue to be lucky enough to wake up again, then here we are. You're more than one thing.

You really are. And you get to be a leader at the front of the room, even in the middle of your learning and the integrity that you have to be able to hold a hand on your heart and be like, okay, this is where I'm at and this is what I'm learning. And look at yourself and acknowledge that. Understand, like spend the time with your own energy to be like, here we are. And be honest with yourself.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (32:57.676)
And if you cannot say the things out loud, I want you to say them to yourself, say them out your mouth though, to the empty room or to your car. Use the language of the story I'm telling myself is, and then say the things. It frees you like say the things out of your mouth. Let yourself process the emotion of it. Let yourself move through the things we're humans. We're going to move through it. We have these brains, we have these bodies, we feel energy. It's big. Life is big. We're like so tiny.

So tiny. We're like these little ants wandering around here on this globe. We're so tiny and so impactful. Both.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (33:38.58)
And there are people, they're gonna show up in those classes. When you're like, is this real? Am I authentic? Am I in integrity here? There's gonna be people that show up at those classes and their whole lives might change by taking the time on their mat that day and with you.

and something you say sticks with them their entire lives. There are things that I have gone to classes with classes before and had teachers say things and it's forever in my brain. It's like something I think about all the time and it's not something that they even thought thought like it wasn't even a big deal. This is why we trust the yoga.

That's why we trust the yoga. Because they're going to have the experience that they need to have there and you are a part of it and your energy is a big part of it. What you teach might even be less important than your energy. So you got to put on that cape and stand up because you're more than one thing.

more than one thing and have those people around you that can hold you close but this is like so trying to be human.

Right? Nobody expects you to be quoting about perfect. That's boring. Perfect is boring.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (35:03.64)
Let yourself be in the middle of things, but own your craft, own your teaching, own your impact in the room. Because this is legit what we're and it's important. And I know for myself, I'm changed because of it. And you probably are too, which is probably why you're showing up here.

Go do the damn thing. Hold yourself gently and gracefully.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (35:41.24)
be so soft with yourself. But like this name of this podcast, Yoga Strong, right? This paying attention, this strength, it is coupled with softness. It is graceful strength. We're not here to pound things in. We're not here to stuff anything down. We're here to look at things. And as a teacher, and as a teacher, you're there to lead and to be an expander in the room.

And deeply I'm holding my hand to my heart. know what it is to stand in front of the room while you're holding your own things close to your own heart.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (36:24.302)
And if you're in the middle of that place, just wish I could give you a big hug. Truly. Be like, see you. I see you.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (36:34.903)
I see you.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (36:39.688)
You're doing so damn good.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (36:45.69)
There is always something that we're in the middle of in the transition of. And I think the practice of balance in it is letting ourselves keep moving. Thank you for being a teacher. Thank you for listening to a podcast like this that is a lot of things.

But hopefully a hand, hopefully it feels like a hand, like an outstretched hand, like, hey, I see you.

And keep on.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (37:30.19)
It's changing people's lives what you're Yeah, truly. Okay. Until next time. Be well.