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Six tips for teaching your first yoga class
Six tips for teaching your first yoga class

Six tips for teaching your first yoga class

Six tips for teaching your first yoga class So you’ve completed your 200-hour yoga teacher training and are at the cusp of beginning your yoga teaching career? Even though you have probably taught fellow-students in small groups during your yoga teacher training, your first real class can be an intimidating experience. While your practice teaching sessions might have been nerve wrecking, you were teaching in a safe and encouraging environment. So now what happens now that you have become a yoga teacher and are about to teach your very first class back home? How do you transfer what you’ve learned [...]

Six tips for teaching your first yoga class

Five reasons to become a yoga teacher
Five reasons to become a yoga teacher

Five reasons to become a yoga teacher

Five reasons why to become a yoga teacher Yoga-teaching is seen as ‘living the dream’ to many people, because they will be focusing on doing the thing they love every day, and (hopefully) getting paid for it. Some are lucky enough to travel the world doing it, teaching in paradise locations. Whilst as a career choice it’s not all palm-fringed beaches and namastes at sunset, yoga teaching has many benefits that you may not have even thought of. Here are five of the main ones… 1. It is immensely rewarding Essentially, every time you take a class, you are helping [...]

Five reasons to become a yoga teacher

Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training
Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training

Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training

Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training As opposed to my own 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training earlier this year where there was only one male student, I noticed that there were several men both attending and teaching the course at Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School India in November this year. On International Men’s Day, I spoke to a few of them to find out how they’d got into yoga, a largely female-dominated activity in the west, in the first place, and what had made them want to take, or ultimately teach, the yoga teacher training [...]

Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training

Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training
Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training

Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training

Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training I enrolled on my 200-hour yoga teacher training at the age of 52 and I almost didn’t, because I knew how many young people, mainly girls, were interested in it and I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with them or bond with the group. Happily for me, I stuck with it and found my own ways of connecting with my fellow students. Yes, most of them were in their 20s and at the start of their adult lives, but there was a sprinkling of women at [...]

Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training

What do we mean when we say namaste?
What do we mean when we say namaste?

What do we mean when we say namaste?

What do we mean when we say namaste? It’s one of those things we do almost without thinking, at the start and end of a yoga class, palms pressed together at our hearts, bowing our heads. Some have even turned it into a piece of theatre at the end of a class, prostrating themselves to floor in a gesture intended to show complete humility and gratitude. I remember the first time someone explained to me what the gesture and the word actually meant. A teacher at Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in India told us that it was an [...]

What do we mean when we say namaste?

Six reasons why everyone should take a yoga teacher training course once in their lifetime
Six reasons why everyone should take a yoga teacher training course once in their lifetime

Six reasons why everyone should take a yoga teacher training course once in their lifetime

Six reasons why everyone should take a yoga teacher training course once in their lifetime Most people will think of yoga teacher training as something you would only undertake if you were actually thinking of embarking on a career as a yoga teacher, or were looking to deepen an already advanced practice. What they might not know is that whatever level you practise at, a yoga teacher training course will have a profound effect on your life, not just your physicality. You will have a much happier relationship with your body. You may have pushed your body doing physical exercise [...]

Six reasons why everyone should take a yoga teacher training course once in their lifetime

Tortoise (Kurmasana)
Tortoise (Kurmasana)

Tortoise (Kurmasana)

Tortoise (Kurmasana) Type: Seated forward bend Level: Advance Steps: Sit straight with your legs bent and wide apart. Bending forward put your right arms under your knee and thighs. Press your legs against your shoulder bones and bend your torso and head down towards the ground. Props & Assistance: • Sit on a folded blanket if you have tightness in your hips or lower back Preparatory poses: •Archer •Standing forward bend •Seated forward bend •Wide legged seated forward bend •Staff •Downward dog Follow up poses: •Childs •Downward dog •Corpse Benefits: •Strengthens the back •Tones the abdominal organs •Encourages flexibility in [...]

Tortoise (Kurmasana)

Eight Angle (Astavakrasana)
Eight Angle (Astavakrasana)

Eight Angle (Astavakrasana)

Eight Angle (Astavakrasana) Type: Arm balance Level: Advance Steps: From seated pose with the legs stretched out in front, bend the right knee to the chest and bring your right arm to the inside of the bent right leg. Take hold of the right foot or ankle with both hands and begin to snuggle the underside of your right knee behind your right shoulder. Hook the right leg firmly behind the right shoulder. Place the palms down either side of your hips and spread the fingers wide. Keep the chest lifted and collarbone wide. Pick up the left leg and [...]

Eight Angle (Astavakrasana)

Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana)
Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana)

Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana)

Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana) Type: Standing Level: Intermediate Steps: Stand tall. Lean over to the side to bring your hand to the ground slightly ahead of the foot on the same side of the body. Raise the back leg and start to raise the other arm up to the ceilng. Try to place the gaze at the hand raised above you. Props & Assistance: •You can perform the pose with your back leaning against a wall •Rest your hand on a block if you struggle to reach the ground •Keep the gaze looking down to the floor if that helps [...]

Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana)

Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangustasana)
Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangustasana)

Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangustasana)

Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangustasana) Type: Standing Balance Level: Intermediate Steps: Take mountain pose. Lift and bend one leg and grab the toe with the two first fingers of the the opposite hand. Start to straighten up the leg as much as the hamstring allows. Put your other hand on your hip. Open your chest and stand tall. Props & Assistance: •You can keep a bend in the knee instead of fully straightening •Use strap looped around the sole of the foot •Use a wall or chair for balance. Preparatory poses: •Reclining Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose •Reclining Hero [...]

Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangustasana)