Think beyond classes: Eight options of teaching yoga
There are many ways of teaching yoga to your students. Today let’s have an overview of eight main options of teaching yoga that are available to you, their upsides and[…]
Category: Teaching tips
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How to Be Well-informed Yoga Educators (when research is limited)
Once we know how to read research, we start to see how many research studies conclude with a list of limitations and a call for further investigation. The more we[…]
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Anatomy 102 (of a Yoga Research Study)
As you start to find research articles that may help you see and communicate what science says about yoga, you can sprinkle in questions like the ones that follow, to[…]
Anatomy 101 (of a Yoga Research Study)
Last week we talked about the basic requirements for good yoga research. This week we’ll take a deeper dive. I have tips for you on how to dissect and read[…]
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“Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted…” by Yoga Research
There’s a stream of new research emerging about yoga and mindfulness, and even more popular news and social media posts about the health effects of mind-body practices. …can yoga improve[…]
Unlock Your Teaching Superpowers with Yoga Research
Have you heard? Twists help with digestion. Static side plank (Vasisthasana) improves scoliosis. “Yoga is good for…” and before we say this, do we pause to confirm what we know,[…]
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Step-by-step guide on how to make your home yoga practice work for you
Do you do yoga for fun or for effect? This is the question that each one of us needs to answer before we decide which practices we want to do[…]
Three main ways to approach your personal yoga practice (and your yoga classes)
Recently I received a lovely email from a regular blog reader. She brought up a very important point that is relevant to all yoga practitioners. Here is what she said:[…]
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What’s so special about yoga series?
Few years ago I wrote a blog post about the similarities that a well-designed yoga class has to a good movie. All those ideas still hold true. However, the entertainment[…]
How to plan a yoga class
I was educated as a school teacher, and in the past I had written my fair share of lesson plans that usually started with “By the end of the class[…]
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Six elements that make up an inspired life of a yoga teacher
When I was going through my yoga therapist training about eight years ago, I was expected to complete a number of assignments in between training sessions. It was a struggle.[…]
“What am I going to teach today?” How to narrow your options for maximum impact
I was amused to discover that the word priority came into the English language in the 1400s and meant “the very first or prior thing”. It stayed singular till 1900s[…]
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Less but better: Essentialism in yoga practice design
I’ve been reading an interesting book called Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. I really connect to the main point of the book which is the idea[…]
Yoga practice ideas based on the Panchamaya Model
My teacher Gary Kraftsow often says: “You can’t teach what you don’t have”. This means that to be effective yoga teachers, we need to practice our own yoga. If you[…]
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How to give your yoga students an experience, rather than “same old, same old” yoga class
Couple of weeks ago I went to get a massage at a wellness center that I’ve never been to before. What struck me the most was how welcoming and considerate[…]
What do pregnant women need in a yoga class?
Some years ago I was invited to teach an introductory workshop on viniyoga at a local health club for women. It was a large group of about 50-60 women, and[…]
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Who are your yoga students and what do they need?
When I started teaching yoga many years ago I remember spending a lot of time wondering “What do my students want in a yoga class?” and trying to please everybody.[…]
You can do yoga anywhere: situational yoga practices
My son is really into drawing; wherever we go, I always have a notebook and a pencil ready for him. When we visited Barcelona last summer, we went to all[…]
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Predictions: How your yoga students’ brains respond to your class instructions
Any yoga teacher knows that it feels very different to teach regular students that have been coming to your classes for some time and brand-new students, especially the ones that[…]
Does the intensity of your yoga practice match your life stage?
Over the years I’ve discovered that as teachers we have to make a choice of what kind of intensity to cultivate in our yoga classes: internal or external intensity. We[…]
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