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To Zoom or not to Zoom?

February 25, 2022 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

The joys and challenges of teaching and practicing yoga online. By Sandra Palmer  Since the arrival of Covid 19 into our world, the way we teach yoga has changed.  Studios and teachers rapidly adapted to the closure of their brick and mortar studios and many immediately started teaching online. Some teachers and students love this online environment and, equally, many people loathe it.  I  refer in this article to teaching online yoga as a valid choice and method of teaching … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Going to Class, Home Yoga Practice, Musings from the Mat, Teaching • The Business of Yoga, Teaching Insights, The Business of Yoga, Uncategorized

Yoga Therapy vs Yoga Class

December 8, 2021 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

Isn’t all yoga therapeutic? By Veronica King You can be forgiven if you are a little confused about why the term yoga therapy exists, after all, isn’t all yoga “therapeutic”? Well, the answer is Yes AND No. Let’s look at why the need for this distinction has arisen and its applications and implications. Ultimately this distinction between Yoga Therapy and a Yoga Class is making sure that we practice the Yamas and Niyamas, in particular Ahimsa (not harming others) and Satya … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Training, Teaching • The Business of Yoga, The Business of Yoga, Uncategorized Tagged With: yoga teacher training, yoga therapy

Don’t Despair the Tear

November 9, 2021 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

By Veronica King, Teaching Yoga and navigating a labral hip tear. Monday night, advanced yoga class. Parsvakonasana, a warm-up pose early in class, and as I anchored my legs and rotated my body upwards, I felt a rip inside my groin. I nearly screamed, tears streaming down my face through the rest of the class, wondering if this was the last yoga class I might ever do, knowing something BAD had just happened.  It turns out that labral hip tears are common amongst dancers, yogis, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Physical Practices, Practices, Teaching Insights, Uncategorized Tagged With: injury, teaching yoga, Yoga anatomy, yoga teaching tips

Honour thy teacher, how to recognise great work in the yoga community

August 25, 2020 by Cara Butler Leave a Comment

by Cara Butler As both a yoga student and teacher, I have practiced and studied with the intention that I am not seeking the ‘fruits’ of my practice. Being a very competitive girl by nature with a strong Pitta constitution this has definately been a challenge at times .... however I do strongly believe the value really is in the journey, not in the destination. I can say more authentically now as I move into my 40s that I practice and also teach yoga, not for any rewards it might offer but as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching • The Business of Yoga, The Business of Yoga, Uncategorized Tagged With: Awards, business, Studio, teacher, yoga

The Teacher’s Contract

March 7, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Donna Farhi, Beyond Methods: Yoga as Self-Inquiry Relationships with yoga students can take many forms: from a clear cut and dried professional boundary between teacher and student that has never extended beyond the perimeters of time spent together in a class, intensive, retreat or teacher training; to the less distinct delineation that happens when a student also happens to be a personal friend; to that of a peer exchange that takes place at a collegial level in which there may be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, Uncategorized Tagged With: boundaries, donna farhi, teacher conduct, teacher relationship, yoga ethics

Feeling it in Your Bones: How to Explore the Skeleton in Yoga

November 8, 2019 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Paul Cohen, Bone Yoga I love inquisitive questions, particularly those that change the way we look at our bodies and challenge us to have a different focus and relationship with ourselves. Not just in the gross movement of our structure but also the more subtle engagements including different ways to use our breath to support movement. So what is my fascination with bones all about? These are some of the questions I like to pose in my yoga classes. What relationship do our bones … [Read more...]

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