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Facilitating Yoga Classes: Teaching Q&A - Including Snoring Students!

07/09/18 • 27 min

Trains of thought on being in the teacher's seat. Inspired by my recent conversations with yoga teacher trainees, we talk about a few questions around facilitating yoga classes - including whether to gently awake sleeping students in Savasana.

It's an interesting time at the end of teacher training. Lots of great questions come up, but they're really questions that should be asked and answered once you are doing some teaching. And asked again, and again, and again - since we should always be refining!

I noticed a lot of questions coming up about facilitation specifically though, so this week we address a few questions about what to do when...

You should praise your students, which inspired a whole thread on talking to students in and out of class in general.
Integrating pranayama and meditation into your teaching (i.e. it's only weird if you make it weird)
Should you wake up snoring students? I put this one to Instagram in a story, and share my community's responses.
When should you share inspiring quotations? As well as some considerations on reading selection
What do you do about students who are late? Once? Often? What shapes how you get to handle this situation?

The intelligent edge yoga podcast was produced by Kathryn Anne Flynn; author of Teach Kind, Clear Yoga: A Guide for Practitioners and Teachers. To learn more about Kathryn, practice online, or find retreats and training opportunities, visit www.kathrynanneflynn.com

I noticed a lot of questions coming up about facilitation specifically though, so this week we address a few questions about what to do when...

You should praise your students, which inspired a whole thread on talking to students in and out of class in general.
Integrating pranayama and meditation into your teaching (i.e. it's only weird if you make it weird)
Should you wake up snoring students? I put this one to Instagram in a story, and share my community's responses.
When should you share inspiring quotations? As well as some considerations on reading selection
What do you do about students who are late? Once? Often? What shapes how you get to handle this situation?

Previous Episode

Open Source Yoga: Brea Johnson from Heart and Bones Yoga

Heart and Bones is the result of Brea Johnson's heart work and a long relationship with yoga and inquiry, particularly into anatomy and movement as it applies to teaching asana. She joins me to wander through a bit of her history as a faciliator and studio owner, her yoga existential crisis and resulting content, and what it's like to move online. We also discuss...

What it's like to focus your yoga teaching more online, what you gain and some early perspective on what you may lose
The cyclical nature of teaching to be inspired and needing to be inspired to teach
The surprising difficulty of tiny movements that are good for you
Brea's yoga existential crisis and how she moved away from and back toward yoga after incorporating a more diverse approach to yoga asana
Yoga leadership, which includes boldness, walking a path that hasn't been trod, and being OK to stumble on that path
The co-creation of yoga in a "post guru" era
Collaborative approaches to yoga - open source yoga! - and balancing owning our own authority
Being comfortable and even enthusiastic about owning a yoga business and marketing your work
Resisting the pressure to play down your goals and desires to incorporate a leadership style that's ethically guided and professional
The living tradition of yoga and how we walk our path to inspire people to do the "heart work"

Show Notes on www.intelligentedge.yoga

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Cannabis Yoga: What It Might Be and What We Must Consider

The difference between CBD and THC, what marijuana does to the brain, how we receive it from an Ayurvedic perspective, and what you may want to think about before you host a marijuana and yoga event.

What are the different types of marijuana products, and are they more for working with pain symptoms or for achieving a high
What are the physiological influences of marijuana on our systems? How does it effect our brains and what are the outcomes?
Considerations for if you were going to host a yoga and cannabis event
What yoga philosophy and Ayurveda have to say about marijuana use
Feedback from my yoga community on their thoughts about cannabis yoga events
A snippet from Elena Brower on her recovery from marijuana addiction from the Wanderlust Speakeasy
Why it's not something that's for my practice and my teaching