How to design a yoga teacher training? A program might have great content but if it is disintegrated, you may be in for a rough ride. The design of a programs could be the difference between feeling lost and finding your life’s path. You need to assimilate the content you study. It takes years of experience […]
What is the content of a yoga teacher training. This is a foundational question for any training. It is right up there with what style of yoga do you teach. I suggest you approach this question with some idea of what you are looking for in a program. Are you only interested in the asana? […]
Many trainings have five or more teachers, all with a range of expertise and from different backgrounds. The content of the program may be diffused and the methodologies inconsistent. Students will still get benefit but they will unknowingly miss out on the power of a more concentrated thread of teachings. How many instructors ought to […]
As you consider a yoga teacher training and what kind of teacher you aspire to become, I invite you to consider what makes an excellent yoga teacher? Instructors come with varying degrees of knowledge and direct experience. Some simply make stuff up (think goat or bar yoga) while others are steeped in tradition and personal […]
Here we are. Just days away from a new year, and edging a little deeper into this fledgling decade. As a new year’s blessing yoga practice, I invite us to pause for a moment of self reflection. Even as the tide of turmoil from this past year still swirls around, I invite us to pause, […]
Back in the day, there we’re very few yoga teacher trainings to choose from. That has changed drastically over the past 10 years, and now, with the advent of the Corona Virus, you can find many, many trainings online. So, how do you select the best yoga teacher training? Best is a very relative […]
There are many ways to communicate as an instructor. In this segment we will explore Figurative Language when teaching yoga. Figurative language is more sensual than it is literal, it invites the student to see and feel their body and mind as a poetic process. This language invites us to soften the analytical mind with […]
This is the 4th part of an ongoing series that explores the different kinds of language a teacher uses to shape their classes. In this segment, we look at invitational language when teaching yoga. Invitational language is a subset of subjective language. Subjective language asks the student to self reflect (or observe themselves) from a […]