by Kara-Leah Grant Camilla Maling is a fascinating woman with a deep perspective on our embodied experience as sensate beings, honed through her many years of dance, yoga, storytelling and life experience. She's endlessly fascinated about the intersection of our being - our psyches and our bodies and how these things map to each other. Spend time talking to her - as I did - and you can feel her passion and curiosity and desire to expand people's understanding of the body they inhabit. She … [Read more...]
How To Overcome Your Fears During Yoga Teacher Training
by Kelly Fisher, Urban Yoga Kelly works as a mentor for students wanting to move toward teacher training, currently training as teachers, or fresh out of training. In these articles, she shares some of the questions she's asked. You can ask her your questions by sending her an email. Question: I am in teacher training and I feel as if my teachers aren't giving the structure or guidance I was expecting to find my "voice". They kind of just throw us in it and then critique us … [Read more...]
How to Get your First Yoga Teaching Job
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...]
I don’t know how to teach yoga anymore. Or do I?
by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I don't know how to teach yoga anymore. I haven't known how to teach yoga since I came back from my Immersion Training with Shiva Rea. Ironic eh? Before certification, I knew exactly what I was doing, and taught with ease and love. After certification, I questioned everything I was doing, and taught with effort and struggle. I don't think I can blame Shiva though, or her teacher training. It's something that's happened inside me, to my … [Read more...]
Wellington Yoga Teacher: Kelly Fisher of Urban Yoga
I'll be forever grateful to Wellington Yoga teacher Kelly Fisher for a number of reasons. The first is that she and fellow (now ex-)Yoga Unlimited owner Lynda Miers-Henneveld organised the last two years of Global Mala, giving me the opportunity to train my way into 108 sun salutations. The Wellington yoga community turned out to enjoy an afternoon of kirtan, yoga and chai. (Watch out for this year's event coming in September). Yoga Unlimited are also the yoga studio that brought Prana … [Read more...]