Teaching practice
Getting Useful Yoga Class Feedback Without Pressuring Students
Practical guide to invite feedback: learn how to assess privacy, timing and specific questions and make adaptable yoga choices.
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Teaching practice
Yoga Teacher Open Days: Make Newcomers Feel Welcome
Practical guide to host a studio open day: learn how to assess access, orientation and expectations and make adaptable yoga…
Teaching practice
Yoga Class Planning Notebook: What Teachers Should Record
Practical guide to maintain class notes: learn how to assess themes, options and observations and make adaptable yoga choices.
Teaching practice
Using a Microphone to Teach Yoga: Sound Checks, Cue Clarity, and Quiet Moments
A microphone can make a yoga teacher's voice easier to hear across a room, but it cannot repair an unclear…
Teaching practice
Yoga Class in Rows or a Semicircle: Sightlines, Space, and Teaching Position
Rows and semicircles organize attention differently in a yoga class. Rows can give everyone a common direction, while a semicircle…
Teaching practice
How to Plan a Single-Pose Yoga Workshop: Questions, Experiments, and Time
A single-pose workshop does not need to be a long attempt to reach one final shape. It can be a…
Teaching practice
Teaching Mixed-Experience Yoga Groups: Shared Tasks Without a Pose Hierarchy
A mixed-experience yoga group contains more than beginners and advanced students. People may know different styles, understand different vocabulary, or…
Teaching practice
Co-Teaching vs Assisting a Yoga Class: Agree on Roles Before Students Arrive
Two teachers in one yoga room can offer students more useful attention, or leave them unsure whose instruction to follow.…
Teaching practice
How to Plan a 30-Minute Beginner Yoga Class: A Teaching Time Budget
Plan a thirty-minute beginner yoga class by budgeting the whole experience, including arrival instructions, demonstrations, transitions, and a clear.
Teaching practice
Peak-Pose vs Theme-Based Yoga Sequencing: Two Ways to Organize a Class
Peak-pose sequencing organizes a class around preparing for a particular posture or movement task. Theme-based sequencing organizes the lesson around…