2013 - Yoga Teacher Training Blog

Yoga for Women in Menopause

Menopause is marked by a number of unsavory symptoms that can crop up without warning. A change in the body's hormone production can cause weight gain, anxiety, depression, fatigue, mild memory loss and insomnia. Yoga seeks to gently coax the body into flexible positions that will get the blood flowing and allow all of the body's systems to blend merrily together. Attending yoga class at least twice each week will provide very real benefits, especially for women who have been suffering from sleeping problems. Yoga may even allow women to avoid hormonal replacement therapy (HRT), which is associated with increased instances of breast cancer, stroke, and coronary problems. When it comes to health, natural stress-reduction techniques are always the way to go.

Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 5002017-04-26T15:30:00-04:00Categories: Yoga for Women|Tags: begun to go through menopause, creates an energy balance within, stretches out the hips, women dealing with menopause, yoga class at least twice each week|1 Comment

About Teaching Yoga Part Time

Additionally, there is no financial risk in teaching classes part-time at a fitness club, church, community center, or a local yoga school. Many successful studio owners started out by teaching at night and working a 9 to 5 job for a full-time employer. This gives a yoga instructor time to calculate the risks of expanding or playing it safe and investing one’s earnings toward a retirement fund or your next vacation.

Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 5002017-04-28T18:01:16-04:00Categories: How to Teach Yoga|Tags: best yoga teachers are full-time, earnings toward a retirement fund, financial risk of building a business, part-time at a fitness club, teaching at night and working, the prospect of a full schedule, yoga instructor never stops learning|0 Comments

The Need For Fitness Yoga Classes

"Fitness yoga" has become extremely popular, worldwide, as more people realize how much yoga has to offer as a form of exercise. In fitness-based sessions, it involves focusing primarily on yoga as an intense bodyweight workout. Most classes borrow various asanas, flows, and sequences, from several different types of yoga, in order to produce an exercise routine that is physically rewarding for the students. Fans of physical yoga workouts report that they have increased flexibility, better posture and balance, and improved muscle tone. However, are there any drawbacks to the rise of fitness-based yoga classes? Does its popularity affect the idea of yoga as a meditative practice? What can yoga instructors do in order to keep a healthy balance between fitness-based classes and more traditional yogic methods?

Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 5002017-04-26T15:30:00-04:00Categories: Yoga Fitness|Tags: are teachers selling out, consumers desperate to lose weight, facing an obesity crisis, fitness industry is making big money, fitness-oriented yoga classes, qualified and understanding yoga instructor, successful yoga studios, using yoga to build fitness, why fitness yoga is popular, yoga exercise, yoga exercises|2 Comments

What You Should Know About Teaching Corporate Yoga

Yoga has been around for thousands of years. Yogic methods have a variety of health benefits for men and women. Corporate yoga has become increasingly popular and a number of managers will actually put together training programs for businesses and organizations. Teaching corporate yoga to employees can offer a variety of long-term benefits to employee as well as employer.

Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 5002017-04-26T15:30:00-04:00Categories: Corporate Yoga|Tags: average yoga teachers, corporate power players, corporate yoga offers a host of advantages, employees who regularly participate, teaching corporate classes, teaching corporate yoga to employees, yoga can help to decrease pain, yoga teachers or their staff|0 Comments

The Drama of a Yoga School as a Business

What can yoga instructors do? Get certified, get covered by a liability insurance company, and establish a track record of safe procedures in your classes. Registration is an option, but it's not often required for liability insurance. To be honest, some teachers (who are not certified or registered) have sports liability insurance coverage. However, certification does show that you are formally educated in safely teaching yoga classes. So, that does build your credibility as a teacher who cares about student safety.

Paul2017-04-28T18:11:19-04:00Categories: Yoga Business|Tags: build your credibility as a yoga teacher, carefully advertise your business, formally educated in safely teaching yoga, obtain certification as an instructor, research the fees charged for yoga instruction, want to open a yoga school, what type of yoga you will teach|2 Comments

What is Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga?

Slow Flow Yoga is not restricted to beginners or those with physical limitations. All levels of Yoga practitioners can find their personal challenges, as they slowly and mindfully move through a series. The pace may be slower, but challenges will be present with difficulties to work through. Even the most advanced Yoga practitioner has much to learn within the reflective pace of slow Vinyasa.

Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 5002021-10-22T21:14:01-04:00Categories: Vinyasa Yoga|1 Comment

Running an Ethical Yoga Business

Ethics in yoga and teaching yoga are universal. Every yoga teacher knows the fundamentals of an ethical practice. Common sense doesn't require books to be written about how to behave and teachers should have a handle on common sense. Most yoga certification programs provide an ethics agreement for teachers.

Paul2017-04-28T18:01:20-04:00Categories: Yoga Business, Yoga Ethics|Tags: advertising a yoga studio for its uniqueness, ethical yoga studio owners, ethics agreement for teachers, ethics in yoga, protection from potential lawsuits, yoga certification programs provide, yoga ethics in classrooms today|0 Comments

Is A Thriving Yoga Business A Fantasy?

One of the first things to consider is what type of Yoga class will be taught. This may seem like a simple, maybe even insignificant thing, but in fact, it is a huge first step into balancing objectives, creating financial forecasts, and marketing plans. Some types of yoga instruction will create the need for larger spaces, translating into a larger studio, and a more expensive monthly budget. This will also mean more students are needed to cover expenses.

Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 5002017-04-26T15:30:00-04:00Categories: Yoga Business|Tags: implement crucial business aspects, keeping overhead down by offering yoga, some types of yoga instruction, successful yoga business owners, yoga instructors teach physical balance|1 Comment

Don’t Starve the Wanderer

The Vagus Nerve is associated with the parasympathetic nervous system, which controls our relaxation responses. This nerve can become under-developed/deactivated because of the body’s constant state of fight or flight from stress and the anxiety of living in today’s society, which keeps the sympathetic nervous system in ‘survival’ overdrive. The breathing becomes rapid and shallow, the heart rate is increased and digestion becomes impaired. In this particular case, ‘The Wanderer’ is being starved of the essential nutrients it needs to help you survive.

Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 5002017-04-28T17:47:09-04:00Categories: Yoga Anatomy|Tags: being starved of the essential nutrients, connects our brain to our body, nerve starts in the medulla oblongata, result in a whole host of chronic illnesses, the vagus nerve is associated, yoga to feed it the most pure prana|0 Comments

Pranayama for Connecting Mind and Body

A holistic and balanced practice of Yoga includes the traditional physical postures, in addition to breathing exercises, meditation techniques and a detailed system of ethical recommendations and injunctions. Study of sacred scriptural texts and the recitation of sacred mantras are also key components of a balanced practice of the ancient art of Yoga.

Paul2021-10-29T10:02:31-04:00Categories: Breath Awareness / Pranayama|0 Comments

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