Sunday, August 3, 2008
Yoga Teachers, Prepare for the New Year's Rush - Part 1
...tudents interest. Do not get too far off the track, but spice up your schedule with special workshops or pilot classes. Yoga classes are much like spice; too many flavors can ruin your dish, or in this case, your class.
Keeping student interest has always been a challenge for teachers of any subject. With fitness or Yoga, it is easy to get flocks of students during January, in North America, with a little help from cold weather, and New Years resolutions. The big question is: How to keep the enthusiasm going all year long?
Therefore, open a special event class to test the waters for student interest. There is no sense in starting another Yoga class without researching, if there is a demand. If the crowd loves the class, you will have no problem getting sign-ups. ...more
Predictions for Yoga in 2008
...fice. Yoga will continue to make headway in the health-care establishment as it becomes more and more widely accepted as a complementary alternative medicine. As this migration occurs, more structure will be needed, including peer-reviewed research studies to measure the efficiency for standardized protocols of yoga care.
5. Yoga will take up permanent residence on Madison avenue. Companies looking to associate their products or services with a wellness lifestyle-even if it has nothing to do with wellness-will turn to yoga imagery. A sexy yogini sipping a glass of wine while sitting in lotus position on the hood of a car is not out of the question.
6. asia will be the next growth market for yoga. More teachers will answer the call to bring yoga to hong kong, and you'll see more Asians attending yoga conferences and teacher training programs in the United States.
7. You'll want to think lifestyle,...more
More Communication Skills for Yoga Teachers
... for asking about it. Nor should he or she have to wait until the end of class to ask an impatient teacher about his or her pain.
Listen Empathically: When a student asks a Yoga-related question during class time, the Yoga instructor present, should listen to all of the details. There are times when a Yoga student asks questions, which are on the mind of many more classmates.
For some Yoga students, it takes a lot of courage to ask a question in a group setting. Some students ponder questions for days before asking them. Their heart rate may rise because it took courage to ask the question.
With all ...more
Yoga and Ethics
.../i>. Yama can be expressed as vows of self-restraint or abstention; niyama may be understood as binding rules that must be observed. The next two components belong to the category of exercises that most people are familiar with (aasana and praanayaam. The significance of putting yama and niyama even before the exercises is crucial to the understanding of the philosophy.
In order to start on the spiritual path it is essential that a person has the moral and ethical foundation for the endeavor. The first two components therefore provide the steps for character building. Each of these consists of different but related sub-components. Yama has five nonviolence (ahimsaa), truthfulness (satya), honesty or lack of tendency to misappropriate (aasteya), sexual continence or restraint (brahmacharya), and non-possessi...more
