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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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Your Direction on the Yoga Teaching Path

The typical path to becoming a Yoga teacher is to take a 200 hour certification course. In this type of course, students usually learn how to teach Yoga, correct alignment for poses, Sanskrit names for postures, yogic philosophy and functional anatomy. Students who graduate from a 200 hour level training program are ready to teach at a studio or gym.

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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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Which Yoga Students Do I Want to Teach?

By Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500, YACEP Which Yoga students do I want to teach? This seems like a discriminatory question, but in terms of student safety, not all Yoga students are the same. Some students bring years of experience to the classroom, while others have just signed up for their very first class. Some …

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Teaching Yoga: Choosing the Best Yoga Mat

One of the benefits of practicing yoga training is that practitioners need few pieces of equipment. The most basic piece of equipment in a yoga class is the mat. Lightweight and small, mats afford a yoga student to practice pretty much anywhere.

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