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Take your yoga from the studio to the boardroom.

July 15, 2022 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

Tips and considerations for teaching workplace yoga by Veronica King. Workplace Yoga is not the same as studio yoga. That's the first and most important thing to remember when looking to teach yoga in the workplace. This is a summary of the Yoga New Zealand Forum which was held recently. 3 speakers were invited to share their wisdom, experience, and tips for teaching yoga in workplaces. With gratitude to Bridgid Davey and Vanessa Bailey who shared with authenticity and vulnerability. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching • The Business of Yoga, Teaching Insights, The Business of Yoga, Yoga & Community Tagged With: teaching yoga, workplace yoga, yoga at work, yoga teaching tips

The challenges of Yoga and pain management.

May 25, 2022 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

More questions than answers on how we view and work with pain in yoga By Veronica King A recent post about a pain relief ad in a pharmacy sparked a lively discussion around yoga and pain, one which I was interested in exploring further. It seems to have created more questions than answers. A topic dear to my heart as I tore my hip labrum in a yoga class, this injury and the subsequent pain management was to become my greatest teacher. Many teachers and students have been injured in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Musings from the Mat, Teaching Insights, Uncategorized, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: ahimsa, chronic pain, teaching yoga, yoga therapy

Does ambition belong on your yoga mat?

April 20, 2022 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

Teaching yoga as your career By Veronica King Luckily my first and most influential teacher always spoke about being a yoga professional. This was her livelihood and treated it with that respect. This helped shape me. As a yoga teacher, I would always treat my career with that same respect. It's not uncommon to feel shy about sharing this. There is in the teaching of any spiritual tradition an ongoing tension between being of service and charging for that service. You have every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, Musings from the Mat, Teaching • The Business of Yoga, Teaching Insights, The Business of Yoga, Uncategorized Tagged With: teaching career, teaching yoga, yoga teaching tips

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

Interview with Carlos, Part 3

October 18, 2021 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

What to look for in a yoga teacher, By Cara Butler In this final instalment of conversations with my teacher, Carlos Pomeda, I asked what advice he would give someone seeking a ‘Teacher’ or ‘Guru’ in these modern yoga times.  Witnessing so many schools and lineages of yoga facing serious allegations and having terrible abuse exposed, I believe that discernment of your teacher is something to take very seriously!  With SO many yoga trainings on offer, with huge variance in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: Teacher training, Teacher/Student relationship, teaching yoga, yoga teacher ethics

Taking your yoga classes online: the challenge and the reward

April 29, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Teaching Yoga Online

by Erica Viedma “What can we do when fear comes up for us or for our students during the practice?”. Geeta Iyengar replied, “When fear arises, you must lift your chest. You must lift your heart.”A Posture of Courage by Christina Sell The third week of our national lockdown and many yoga teachers around New Zealand, and the world, have started teaching online. Some teachers are on Facebook Live or pre-recorded classes. I even attended a yoga class based in New York with 60 people from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching • The Business of Yoga, Teaching Insights, The Business of Yoga, Yoga & Community Tagged With: challenging, covid19, online, pandemic, teaching yoga

How Teaching Yoga on a Remote Island Helped Me Cope with Grief

November 23, 2017 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Julie Stansfield, Ebb and Flow Yoga As I travel along the road that connects the south with the north of the island to teach my weekly yoga class in Port Fitzroy, I reflect on how my life has changed since I first moved to Great Barrier Island thirteen years ago. I certainly wouldn’t have thought I’d be travelling fifty minutes to share my love of yoga with a group of enthusiastic women. Driving on a winding, gravel road which takes me from my home on the western side of the island, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: Ebb and Flow Yoga, grief, Island, teaching yoga, yoga

The Humbling Experience of Ditching Music While Teaching Yoga

January 5, 2017 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

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by Kara-Leah Grant Facilitating retreat is always a powerful experience, not just for the retreatees, but also for myself and the other facilitators. I know that I'm going to get triggered, that my ideas and beliefs will be challenged, and my unconsciousness revealed. This is the process of retreat, and it is immensely rewarding. In the middle of the fire though, it's damned hard work. Case in point: The Heart of Joy, Bali. I’m co-facilitating with Ben Ralston. It's only the second retreat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Musings from the Mat, Teaching Insights Tagged With: breakthrough, ego defenses, humbleness, music, shiva rea, teaching yoga

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 to Maximize Your Potential as a Yoga Teacher

May 30, 2016 by Guest Author 2 Comments

by Neal Ghoshal When I started teaching Yoga thirteen years ago I thought I'd be showing anybody who turned up to class a few Yoga postures and hopefully they'd enjoy themselves. Yet Yoga seems to have its own plans and it's own drive. Teaching Yoga has lead me on unexpected journeys and to unforeseen places. And it appears to be the same with many who come to Yoga - at first, we do not realise the power and the beauty of the practice to transform our lives. A few years down the line we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: donna farhi, inquiry, karma yoga, Neal Ghoshal, service, teaching yoga

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