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The Truth on Drinking Coffee and Teaching or Practicing Yoga

March 8, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 33 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 is on … [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. In this article Adhyatma shares how the Yoga Education in Prisons Trust (YEPT) got started, what the challenges have been and what she's learned from the experience.   by Adhyatma, Yoga Education in Prisons Trust After I finish teaching my Yoga classes, the men in my class often come up respectfully and shake my hand … [Read more...]

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

How to Get your First Yoga Teaching Job

December 18, 2013 by Guest Author

by Kelly Fisher, Urban Yoga Typically when you finish your first yoga teacher training it can feel as though you're bursting with equal parts fantastic information to share and uncertainty about how or where to share it. Unless you've completed teacher training with an organisation that rolls new teachers onto an existing schedule, it can be a challenge to figure out how you can get into teaching in your town. Often studios will want teachers with previous teaching experience and/or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: kelly fisher, teaching yoga, urban yoga, yoga career, yoga job

Leave your assumptions at the door and open to your full potential

April 4, 2012 by Elissa Jordan 3 Comments

Brooklyn, Wellington

by regular columnist Elissa Jordan, Adventures in Teaching I live in Brooklyn, Wellington. If you’re not familiar with Wellington, Brooklyn is at the top of a hill. A very long, steep hill. To cycle from work to home is just over 3km. Brooklyn hill makes up about 1.5km of uphill climb. It’s a monster. Why am I telling you all this? Because when I first moved to Wellington I spent weeks telling myself I couldn’t cycle up that hill. Finally one day I decided to give it a go. I got about a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: assumptions, building a practice, expectations, not flexible enough, not strong enough, teaching yoga

Managing fear when teaching yoga

February 25, 2012 by Elissa Jordan 11 Comments

by Elissa Jordan, Adventures in Teaching Am I good enough? Can I do this? No matter who you are or what you’re trying to do, questions like these can creep up from time to time. And the more aligned you are to your true purpose, the louder these questions can be. Why is that? Well, being true to yourself is kind of a big deal. What happens if you blow it? What happens if the one thing you want more than anything else in this life all goes to shit? These doubts and questions and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: dealing with doubt, heart opening, managing fears, teaching yoga, yoga teacher

How to answer: what exactly is the energy body?

December 15, 2011 by Elissa Jordan Leave a Comment

by guest author Elissa Jordan It started with a story about a mouse in a toaster. Our second weekend in Nelson, as part of the Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Jenifer Parker of Wellington’s Healium, focused on the energy body. Looking back over my notes from the weekend I see the conversation ebb and flow as only appropriate for a weekend focusing on energy. The movement of stories rode one energetic wave after the next - starting with that mouse in a toaster, and moving to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices, Teacher Training Tagged With: bad energy, energy, energy body, healium, jenifer parker, teaching yoga, warrior I, warrior ii, yoga teacher training

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