Enliven Your Yoga Teaching Do you ever get tired of hearing your yoga teaching “script?” I do. I’ve been teaching yoga since 1986, and sometimes it hits me that I seem to say the same things over and over—and over and over. This is partly okay. I’ve spent considerable energy crafting my teaching language. As
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Retiring Pigeon Pose Modern postural yoga seems to have a bit of an obsession with hip opening. While it’s important to maintain mobility in the hips—especially since so many of us spend lots of time sitting in chairs in front of a computer—stability is just as important. The practice of asana is not about becoming
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Healthy Yoga Practice – Don’t Stretch Your Joints! I regularly offer hip workshops at various teacher trainings in the region where I live. As the recipient of bilateral hip replacements, I’ve learned a lot about which poses and ways of approaching asanas promote healthy yoga practice, and which do not. Being bone on bone in
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Yoga Teaching: The Wisdom of Not Knowing If you’ve taught yoga for any length of time, you’ve probably heard this question: What should I be feeling in this position? My best answer to this question has always been a non-answer. Why a non-answer? Well, yoga teaching doesn’t follow a pat formula. First, I’m not inside
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Here’s How to Live Litigation Free as a Yoga Teacher, Yoginfluencer, and Yogipreneur Yoga teacher liability insurance. If you’re a yoga instructor or training to become one, odds are you’ve heard of it and maybe even considered getting covered. There are many beneficial reasons for coverage that stem beyond the inherent risks of teaching. This
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A-to-Z Guide to Yoga Cues An exploration and explanation of the good, the bad, the confusing, and the just plain hilarious. The post A-to-Z Guide to Yoga Cues appeared first on Yoga Journal. An exploration and explanation of the good, the bad, the confusing, and the just plain hilarious. The post A-to-Z Guide to Yoga
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Yoga Teachers: You Might Want to Re-Evaluate These 6 Yoga Cues the Next Time You Teach One mark of a truly great yoga teacher is excellent cueing. Creative yoga cues can connect the dots for students in new ways, even if they’ve been practicing yoga for years. It’s easy, when we’re new to teaching yoga,
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Hone Your Yoga Teaching Language A few years ago, a yoga student from 30 years ago returned to class. He told me he was finally ready to practice again after a very long hiatus. His schedule had prevented him from continuing all those years ago. But there was one other thing that made him hesitate
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Beginner’s Mind: Humility in Yoga Practice If I had to pick just one quality that separates a good yoga teacher from a great one, it would be humility. Of course there are other important qualities too: knowledge, education, committed practice, integrity, honesty, kindness, discernment, in addition to many more. But in a very real way,
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Ask the Teacher: “My Student Feels Dizzy. Should She Stay in My Class?” When your student feels out of balance, here’s what you can do to keep them safe. The post Ask the Teacher: “My Student Feels Dizzy. Should She Stay in My Class?” appeared first on Yoga Journal. When your student feels out of
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