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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, Mindful Movement “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 … [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

yoga music dancing

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

The Inside Story on Nadi Yoga’s 200Hr Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training

October 27, 2016 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By Kara-Leah Grant When you're contemplating which Yoga Teacher Training is right for you, one of the best resources can be speaking to someone who has already done that training. Of course, it can be hard to track down former trainees, so we've done that hard work for you. We spoke to Helen Thomas, a Napier-based yoga teacher who did her teacher training with Nadi Yoga nearly two years ago. Helen had been practicing yoga for over ten years before finally making the decision to train as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Training, Teaching Insights Tagged With: Helen Thomas, Nadi Yoga, Nianna Bray, Sandi Murphy, self-inquiry, Teacher training, teaching yoga, yoga teacher, yoga teacher training

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 1 Comment

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

The Truth on Drinking Coffee and Teaching or Practicing Yoga

March 8, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 28 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Since stopping regular coffee drinking back in 2013, I have become fastidious about never drinking coffee before practicing or teaching yoga. Since I practice every day, and teach often, there are very rare windows when caffeine is an option for me. At a recent summer festival, I realised how deeply this belief I have about the importance of not having caffeine in the system when practicing and teaching was ingrained. A couple of hours before I was teaching a class, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: addiction, coffee, intoxicants, teaching yoga, Yoga Sutras

How to Avoid Putting Someone off Yoga for Life in Your Yoga Class

October 22, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

The function of the pose is always more important than the form.

by Kara-Leah Grant Yoga might be one of the faster growing pursuits in the West, but there's still plenty of people showing up to class, having one - or multiple - bad experiences and being put off for life. And unfortunately, that initial interaction with a studio and/or teacher can set the tone for the way someone will forevermore think about yoga and 'yoga people'. Yes, there can be difficult first-timers and it takes two people to co-create a situation. But in the yoga room, the onus … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: bad yoga, good yoga practice. good yoga teaching, self-inquiry, teaching yoga

I’m Afraid my Students are Going to Get Bored with my Yoga Sequences

June 30, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant This came up in conversation this week - a new teacher expressing a fear that her yoga sequences weren't interesting enough and that she was going to be boring her students. She wanted to know how to make her sequences more interesting. However, there is a fallacy of logic here. The teacher has a fear arising - that of boring her students. Her approach to working with that fear is to ensure that the external circumstance triggering the fear is removed - bored … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: fear, samskara, sequencing, shiva rea, teaching yoga, yoga mentor

Getting Out of the Yoga Studio: What I’ve Learnt Teaching Yoga in Prisons

September 19, 2014 by Guest Author 5 Comments

This is the second article is this series looking all the ways in which people are excluded from yoga - reasons like social class, race, money, incarceration or general access. I've ben a huge fan and supporter of the Yoga Education in Prisons Trust since I heard about their work when Adhyatma published her first article on YLB - Broken Warriors – reaching out to prisoners with yoga. My support means I donate $1 from print copy of  Forty Days of Yoga and now The No-More-Excuses Guide to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, Teaching Insights Tagged With: accessible yoga, adhyatma, satyananda yoga, teaching yoga, yoga education in prisons

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