Teaching Yoga to Students with Emotional Stress
Many Yoga teacher training interns envision classes with fit students, who want physical challenges. Hatha Yoga is well known as a form of...
Teaching Yoga to Prevent Knee Injuries
Yoga teacher training courses prepare us for working with a diversified population. Some graduates quickly forget that our mission as...
Teaching Yoga to Protect the Knees
Tips for teaching Yoga to protect the knees: In order to avoid the risk of knee injury inherent in some poses, a Yoga instructor must...
Teaching Yoga to Balance Emotional Flow
When teaching Yoga classes, emphasize the power that pranayama and everyday breathing has over one's emotions. The answer to emotional...
Teaching Yoga to Build Strength
Teaching yoga requires creativity, consistency, study, and a lot of practice. As a teacher, you may be asked about yoga for sciatica...
Teaching Yoga for the Quality of Life
Well known for its relaxation and breathing techniques, yoga as a way of life has spread like fire through studios across the world and into gyms, fitness clubs, senior centers and even public schools. There are many different styles and techniques, with each style focusing on a specific emphasis that tends to characterize it. Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, for example, is a practice that highlights the physical challenges of yoga whereas Iyengar is a slower version of Hatha that allows practitioners to concentrate on pose mastery and yogic philosophy.
Teaching Yoga: The Power of Observation
Although a Hatha Yoga teacher must be able to teach a variety of poses (asanas), practice many forms of meditation, and understand the...
Kinesiology Education for Yoga Teachers
Since Hatha Yoga is based on movement, it makes perfect sense that someone specializing in teaching a physical form of Yoga would be...
Teaching Yoga: Benefits of Yoga Props
By Narendra Maheshri What are the benefits of yoga props? There is an attitude that a few Yoga teachers have in regard to the use of props. This attitude is based on intolerance for new students and students with special needs. Maybe the Yoga teacher has not received in-depth training of anatomy, or a compassion [...]
Teaching Yoga and Finding a Mentor
Teaching Yoga requires a complex set of skills, knowledge, and methods that are best learned through practice. The best Yoga teachers...