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Home Yoga Practice: What Counts if You Are a Yoga Teacher?

July 12, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant A few months ago I wrote an article stating that if you teach yoga, you must have a daily self-practice. That article was widely shared, and read. And it triggered some strong reactions. There were comments, and emails where people shared with me the reasons why they couldn't practice yoga every day. Some of these teachers were only teaching one class a week, on top of working 50+ hour jobs, and they were often teaching disadvantaged groups. They felt like what they were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Teaching Insights Tagged With: failure, guilt, home yoga practice, mat resistance, self practice, teaching yoga

How I Dropped the Ball on Day 338 of My 1000 Day Practice

July 5, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Today is Day 138 of a 1000 Day practice I'm doing. It should be about Day 500. But earlier this year, on Day 338 something happened and I dropped the ball. I've been doing Forty Day practices for nearly a decade now. At first, it took great dedication, commitment and mindfulness to practice yoga every day for forty days in a row, especially when I was doing the same practice each day. I learned so much about myself, how my mind worked, and where I was sabotaging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: Christopher Tompkins, commitment, Kashmir Shaivism, mind, patanjali, self practice, shiva rea, Vritti, Yoga Sutras

Teaching Yoga? You Must have a Home Yoga Practice. Here’s why

April 20, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 25 Comments

  by Kara-Leah Grant Recently on social media, a yoga teacher was talking about the difficulty of fitting in going to yoga classes with her busy schedule, and admitted that her home yoga practice was poor. This teacher displayed zero awareness of the importance of a personal practice for anyone who teaches yoga. She's trained as a yoga teacher. Which implies that the yoga teacher training she completed didn't hammer home the importance of a personal practice for those who teach yoga. She's not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: home yoga practice, Para Yoga, Rod Stryker, self practice, transmission, yoga teacher training

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