How to Plan an Asana Sequence for Yoga Class
As is widely known, some styles require little planning and preparation on behalf of the yoga instructor. These styles have preset lesson…
Correcting Yoga Students – Value of Compassion
Showing compassion means drawing from your inner patience and understanding. When a Yoga student is floundering in a pose, or perhaps…
Teaching Autumn Yoga Classes
As the simple gift of ease and spaciousness increases with each inhalation and exhalation during their practice of this flowing version of Extend Child’s Pose, you can gently invite your students to release any negative emotions, thinking patterns or beliefs that may be holding them back in their lives. In this way, their Yoga practice will begin to mirror the release of the brilliantly colored fall leaves as they drift to the soft earth below. When you offer your students Yoga classes that are informed by the rich wisdom of the seasons, they will quite naturally align and be supported by the rhythms of the natural world around them.
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…
Yoga Anatomy – Reasons for Inflexibility
Yoga teachers should learn all that is possible about Yoga anatomy to help inflexible students become confident students.
Yoga as a Relaxation Technique
When one decides to become a Yoga teacher, there are many responsibilities. We are obligated to keep our students safe and to guide them toward states of relaxation and meditation. The physical style we know as Hatha is more than an exercise session. Hatha is one of the most widely recognized forms of Yoga.
Summer Yoga Classes – Effective Themes for Teaching
If you decide to offer your Yoga students a minute or two of a relaxing aromatherapy neck and shoulder massage during their practice of Shavasana, remember to approach your students gently before massaging their neck and shoulders. This will ensure that you do not scare them and cause their muscles to contract! By integrating a moment or two of a blissful neck and shoulder massage with essential oils, after guiding your students through a balanced Yoga practice, you will leave your students feeling rejuvenated, refreshed and ready to continue enjoying the languid and balmy days of summer.
Calming Kids with Yoga
Specialized yoga instructor training for working with children is essential for working with youngsters. Children have a lot of energy…
Teaching Yoga: Regulating Emotional Flow
Consider hosting a student or master’s workshop that addresses controlling emotional flow. If you hold a specialist Yoga teacher training workshop, this will help us reduce violence around the world. Yoga instructors…
Yoga Pose Safety Tips
Even though Hatha Yoga is a gentle practice, and anyone can do it, it should be practiced safely, for the sake of avoiding injury. The fact is – we can injure ourselves at the dinner table if we take risks and refuse to pay attention to what we are doing. The following are four Yoga posture safety tips, to always keep in mind, in order to have the very best possible experience for many decades to come.