After Your Yoga Teacher Diploma
The most important thing to remember when looking for a job as a yoga teacher is to step out of the box. Do not limit yourself to waiting for an opening at the one local studio in town.
Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Yoga for Stress Could Cause Weight Reduction
Mental clarity can increase, along with focus on intent, allowing the yoga student to be more present during his or her practice. This heightened sense of presence will also encourage a student to become more committed to his or her yoga training sessions. This boost in confidence can have an amazing upward spiral effect.
Teaching Chair Yoga Classes
Chair yoga is a wonderful alternative for students who have trouble with mobility or balance. They can still gain many of the benefits of yoga stretches and breathing exercises while staying on or near a chair for support. Instructing a class that uses a chair as the main prop will be a change from a regular class of students with full range of motion capabilities. Yoga teachers must be careful to be sensitive to the needs of their students.
What is Power Yoga?
You may have noticed that Aura Wellness Center recently added a Power yoga course. Yet, people considering yoga teacher training courses often wonder what the “power” is all about. To some people the word (power) doesn’t seem yogic. So, what’s all the hype about this particular style?
Family Yoga Classes Online or in Studios
Large Yoga schools, with more than one studio, and that understand the demands of parenthood, can offer kids classes during adult class times. Understandably, this can prevent parents from missing classes due to the inability to find child care, and allows parents to relax and focus on Yoga, while knowing that their children are nearby and safe.
Tips for Becoming a Great Yoga Instructor
As yoga schools and classes pop up all around the world, it seems like almost half the serious practitioners at some point decide to become a yoga teacher. At yoga studios, teacher training programs are popular with students and some studios are developing certification programs.
Increase Happiness with Yoga
By Bhavan Kumar How can you increase happiness with yoga? Since yoga moved onto the world stage, asana, pranayama, meditation, and other Yogic stress-reduction exercises have been studied as possible alternative treatments for mood-related disorders. However, the body of literature on the therapeutic benefits of yoga was relatively limited until the Internet propelled it forward. …
Yoga Teacher Ethics and Relationships With Students
Depending on the guidelines and politics of your studio, you may not want to discuss your attraction with your boss or fellow teachers. If you teach at a corporate location, an employee handbook may specify that you be disciplined for bringing up sexual or romantic feelings towards students. Don’t let these circumstances inspire negative feelings. Humans are wired to find each other attractive, and even the best yoga teachers are still human.
Yoga for the Flu
Make these yoga training practices part of your daily routine to help ensure that your body gets a healthy boost to its immune system and you can get a dose of positive energy and physical balance.
Teaching Your First Yoga Class
It is quite the journey for an introvert or an extrovert to stand in front of a class of eager students, who expect you to be entertaining, athletically gifted, and philosophical. Truthfully, all of those characteristics combined in one package are a bit of an oxymoron.