Teaching casual classes, the upside and dowside

So this week due to school holidays I took 6 classes for other people. This isn't a lot I admit, but I normally only teach 1. The upside was the cash, which is always welcome, there is also the fact that I get exposure to new people, but they body is feeling both tired and happy, and it did take alot out of me as havent done much since the birth of my bub. So Let me explain more ...... I teach at a gym and the people that do yoga, generally also do pilates, body balance and body pump as well. My dilemma was to keep every class interesting, unique, and I wanted to ensure variety for students both in terms of poses and levels of poses. Just cause they saw the same face, I didn't want them to go, oh her again lets do something different, because routine is what people like, so keep the routine and work in a similar way. Having done a variety of yoga and gym quals I have a few tricks in my toolkit. So whilst it was hard work to keep it all fresh, I actually thing I managed to pull it off. And the bit I learned the most from out of this, was people were happy u were giving them a class so they kept routine, they enjoyed the variety, it was fresh and different for them, and that they still felt like I fulfilled their normal class as well. I also gt a few comments about how it was tougher than they expected eg yoga poses for say core irked the core muscles differently to Pilates. Who knew :-) So it's never as bad as what you think. I learnt a lot from the experience as a teacher that I'm going to take off the mat and into my life as well.