Ideas for Yoga Teachers
What Do We Expect From Our Students?
What expectations do we have about our students’ commitment to yoga, and their loyalty to our preferred approach to yoga?
Creating a Positive Classroom Experience
How do you balance giving students what they want, versus giving students what they need?
Making peace with the students who drive us crazy, as a way of making peace with ourselves.
Are we selling ourselves, or yoga?
As teachers, do we identify our teaching by our training, our personal
practice, or our students?
Touch in the yoga classroom should be informed, intentional, and receptive. Demonstrate hands-on compassion and awareness.
How to guide students towards a mindful practice before class officially begins.
How teaching yoga helps us find our home, brain, heart, and nerve.
Are our students better served by strictness or freedom in the classroom?
Competition and Connection in the Yoga Community
How to stay connected to other teachers in a culture that encourages competition.
Ideas for Developing a Teaching Philosophy
A
collection of exercises and questions that will help you articulate your teaching goals and values,
by reflecting on your experiences with yoga in and out of the classroom.
CDs that inspire my classes.