Teaching Private Yoga in a Student’s Home
Teaching private yoga in a home is a very different experience than teaching in a studio. Yoga studios have lots of free, open space…
Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500, YACEP
How to Teach Dirga Pranayama
If you are a new Yoga instructor, teaching traditional pranayama practices to your students may seem intimidating at first. However, incorporating breathing exercises into a sequence of Yoga asanas will increase the benefit of the practice many times over.
Yoga Therapy Yesterday and Today
There are many ways to incorporate Yoga into daily life. While more beneficial when done regularly as part of an overall practice, stretches, deep breathing, and relaxation can provide therapeutic benefits at any time and place.
What is Yoga Science?
From the Vedic teachings in ancient India to 21st century research, evidence shows that Yoga changes the way we think, feel, and act. It makes us happier, healthier, and better-adjusted, but that doesn’t explain the science behind the art.
How Does Yoga Training Reduce Anxiety?
What the increasing agreement between common knowledge and popular science has concluded is that yoga does indeed have anti stress and anti-anxiety benefits. Scientists believe that yoga regulates the heart, the brain and improves blood flow.
Positive Psychology for Yoga Practice – Self-Knowledge
Embedding the essential components of positive psychology principles into your Yoga practice will greatly enhance the beneficial aspects…
Yoga Anatomy and the Human Machine
A thorough understanding of Yoga anatomy, as it relates to the human machine, will also teach you about the functioning of the nervous, circulatory, and digestive systems. Yoga teachers, who study anatomy, will learn how students are affected by a regular practice of Yoga asanas and pranayama techniques. This knowledge will benefit you, both on a personal level and a professional level, as a Yoga instructor. You will gain the knowledge of how to move in and out of the asanas safely.
Teaching Yoga: Do Not Lock Your Joints
To avoid locking your joints is very important to practice, if you are participating in yoga training sessions. Sometimes even over time a joint injury can lead to issues such as osteoarthritis.
Yoga for Coping with Loss
Truly eliminating the effects of loss may never be possible. In these cases, it is still possible to greatly improve the outlook and disposition of a person in grief. Whatever the ultimate result, applying yoga training to real life situations is a constructive means of dealing with traumatic events.
Yoga for Revitalization
By challenging both mind and body, Yoga is able to provide restorative revitalizing properties of other physical forms of activity without the high impact and stress of other sports, or the anxiety that comes with just starting out.