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Teaching Pranayama to Yoga Students

Most students expect you to know everything, but one, two or three yoga teacher certification courses are not the end all of yogic knowledge. The pure truth is a yoga instructor or a student’s path never ends, when considering the pursuit of yogic knowledge.

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Organizing a Yoga Workshop

So when you go to a yoga class or do some self practice, the yoga you practice is all about you. After all it is just you, your yoga mat and what you do. You may like to think of your yoga mat as your magic carpet that takes you to new places within your body and mind…the journey of yoga! How wonderful!

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Teaching Yoga for Nausea

There are a few yoga postures and breathing exercises that will help prevent nausea or alleviate the symptoms. Nausea can be an unwelcome…

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Should I Become a Yoga Instructor?

When you want to become a yoga instructor, you are going to have to make sure you fulfill any requirements that the place where you want to teach requests. This means that you will need to have the endurance to get through the courses, and you will also have to find courses that match up with your own time schedule. One additional point to make: Each facility is unique and may require different teachers for different classes. If you are a Restorative teacher, don’t expect to get an audition for the Power Yoga teaching position. If you are an RYT, don’t expect the local Bikram yoga school to open the doors to you, unless you were trained by Bikram Choudhury. One key doesn’t open all the doors and neither does one certification.

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Teaching Yoga for Cancer Patients

The beginning lessons may be difficult for some cancer patients, particularly if their body has succumbed to the illness greatly, but the benefits of yoga are worth the initial rough start. The deep breathing exercises are also an important aspect of teaching yoga to cancer patients. As time progresses, patients will find that regular yoga exercises help them cleanse their bodies and to give them a sense of comfort and ease, washing away their anxieties and worries.

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Four Tips for Physical Assists During Yoga Classes

Should yoga teachers physically assist their students to help them get into the correct poses, or should teachers rely solely upon verbal instructions? The question is a good one, and sometimes a controversial one, since not all students feel comfortable with being touched by the yoga instructor.

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Continuing Education – Do Yoga Teachers Need It?

Individuals who support ongoing education for yoga teachers poses many strong arguments to legitimate their claim that continued study is necessary and important. One argument posed to promote the notion that ongoing education is important is that there is always something new to discover and experience in the field of yoga.

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Teaching Hatha Yoga: Difficult Students and Fitness Centers

A Power Yoga teacher is called, by the fitness center she works for – to substitute her class for the regular step aerobics class; this…

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