Yoga Instructor Training Blog
What is the Best Yoga School?
The atmosphere in a yoga school contributes a lot toward the overall effectiveness of the class. If the studio environment is too cold, cluttered, smelly or generally unkempt, it will take away from the students' experience with yoga training. The school should address a number of concerns to keep the students comfortable and allow the yoga teacher to do his or her best teaching.
Practice Yoga to Raise Metabolism by Lowering Stress Levels
Practicing yoga is a well known method for releasing stress. Lowering stress in your life will help you to speed up your metabolism...
About Yoga With Goats
https://youtu.be/C9A0AxoleGA By Michael Gleason Many yoga poses are named after animals – pigeon, down-dog, and cobra – but only recently have live animals been incorporated into the practice itself. Enter yoga with goats. What [...]
Yoga Students and Comparisons to Instructors
By Kathryn Boland You're Not Me - Avoiding Students Comparisons to Instructors Have you noticed students making comparisons to instructors in yoga practice - in less obvious signs (such as glances and facial expressions) or [...]
What Doctors Should Know about Yoga
Yoga is being studied more and more, following an explosion of interest in it over the last ten years. As a result, experienced yoga...
Celebrating Life with Yoga: A Metaphorical Journey
By: Virginia Iversen, M.Ed. What can Yoga Teach us about celebrating life? For the past twenty-five years, I have been diligently practicing Yoga several times a week. I began to practice Yoga when I developed [...]
Therapeutic Value of Slow Flow Yoga
By Faye Martins What is all the fuss about slow flow yoga? If you want to get in shape by trying a low-impact exercise, then slow-flow vinyasa yoga is the pace for you. Stretch your [...]
Teaching Inversions For Mood Elevation
By: Virginia Iversen, M.Ed. Is there a method for teaching inversions and raise the mood of an entire class? Teaching mood elevating Yoga classes, which address and ameliorate the underlying causes of anxiety and depression, [...]
Nurturing Harmony in a Yoga Class: Individual Considerations
By: Virginia Iversen, M.Ed How do we go about nurturing harmony in our Yoga classes? According to BKS Iyengar, who was one of the most well loved and highly respected Yoga teachers of our time, [...]
Teaching Balancing Holiday Yoga Classes: Ananda Balasana
By: Virginia Iversen, M.Ed. How can you teaching balancing holiday Yoga classes? Once again, the holiday season is upon us. Many homes are now displaying brightly colored Christmas lights and glowing Menorahs in honor of [...]