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[…]
Category: Teaching tips
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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[…]
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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[…]
Why do some yoga classes make you feel good and others do not?
You know how sometimes you go to a yoga class and you come out feeling “This is exactly what I needed! I feel great!” and other times you end up[…]
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How to work with chronic pain on the level of physiology (part 1)
Some days when I begin my yoga practice I can feel the entire physical history of my body: here is that neck tension from staring at the computer all day[…]
How to work with chronic pain on the level of physical body
There is a heated ongoing debate in the yoga community about the difference between a yoga teacher and yoga therapist. Some feel that yoga by its nature is therapeutic, so[…]
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Active listening and pain assessment in a yoga session
One of my clients is currently shopping for a doctor. She is trying to find one that she can stick with for a while and so far she hadn’t been[…]
What do we lose as we gain more education and experience in yoga?
Most yoga teachers I know spend a lot of time perfecting their craft – they read a lot, attend workshops, experiment in their own practice and teach many classes. This[…]
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Embrace your own power by cultivating presence
In my first year of college my academic advisor had roped me into presenting at a minor conference. I complied, even though I didn’t care about the subject that was[…]
Movement observation in a yoga session
When I started working with students one-on-one many years ago, I used to offer free initial evaluations to anybody who was interested. It was time-consuming and not really cost-effective, but[…]
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What to look for in your student’s physical structure
I learned to drive pretty late in life. I started in my early 20s when I came to the US, but never needed a car, so I delayed driving till[…]
A look back, and a look ahead
With 2016 soon coming to a close, let’s take a moment to look back at the ground that we’ve covered. This year we focused on three major topics: axial extension[…]
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How to work with knees in yoga
When a student comes to you complaining of knee pain, the first thing you need to do is assess tracking. Tracking is a relative position between the hip joints, knee[…]
What causes front knee pain and what can we do about it?
“Get your earplugs ready” – jokes one of my students before attempting Chair pose. Over the years of working together we both got used to the loud crackling sound that[…]
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A list of basic chair yoga poses
Once you begin to think of chair yoga poses in terms of directional movement of the spine, it becomes much easier to both structure your yoga practices and make pose[…]
How creative do we need to be with chair yoga?
If you teach chair yoga to a group or individual student for a while, at some point you will inevitably feel like you ran out of ideas. There are definitely[…]
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How to sequence classes for chair yoga
One of my older yoga students gets mildly irritated every time she hears a yoga teacher say: “Listen to your body and don’t do anything that doesn’t feel right”. She[…]
Who is Chair yoga for?
“Let’s use a chair” – I suggested to one of my students few years ago. “I don’t need a chair, – she replied – I am not elderly”. This response[…]
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How do you know what a yoga pose is meant to accomplish?
I remember reading an article couple of years ago by a yoga teacher who observed a tendency to give too much anatomical instruction in yoga classes. As expected, she got[…]
Want a more effective yoga practice? Use compensation properly
You know how after some yoga classes you feel more balanced and centered and after others you feel more disjointed and discombobulated? There are many factors that affect the outcome[…]
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