Conversations for Yoga Teachers

You’re teaching poses but are you highlighting key movements you’re students are doing AND finding ways to integrate other functional movements in your classes so that your students get even MORE benefit than they expected? Join me for this episode where I’ll share key functional movements you should be including in your classes and why.

Are you teaching a style of yoga that resonates with you and feels easy and fun? In today’s episode, I tackle this question and share tips and ideas for how to help you if you’re finding the style of yoga you’re teaching is not a good match.

In this episode, you’ll learn about pain and pain management, the definition of pain, how it effects people and the work that Dr. Kross is doing with patients in this area. We also talk about pain as it relates to teaching yoga and conversations we might have with our students about pain and how they can practice while feeling pain of some kind. You can find Dr. Kross on Instagram at dr.tawny.kross

In this episode, I’ll share a number of ways you can find teaching jobs outside of yoga studios. This all comes from my book, “Stretched: Build Your Yoga Business, Grow Your Teaching Techniques” which you can find on Amazon.

In today’s episode, learn some new and fresh approaches to cueing in restorative poses. Several approaches and techniques are shared and some can be used by any teacher, regardless of anatomy knowledge and experience. Others will require more anatomy knowledge and can be used once that knowledge base is more developed so that you can feel more confident in sharing them.

Josh is an Integrated Bodyworker and Movement Coach with Denver Pain and Performance Solutions. His approach to client care one of looking at the client in an embodied way, not just through the lens of functional movement. In this conversation he shares his approach to working with clients, how he helps them and share his approach to helping clients get to the underlying cause of their pain or limited movement. We cover a number of topics in this episode and we end with a reference to yoga teaching that I think you’ll find interesting.

 

Josh has his B.S. in Kinesiology and Rehabilitation and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a Licensed Massage Therapist. He also has a number of certifications including Active Release Techniques, Craniosacral Therapy, Intuitive Energy Work, Level 3 NeuroKinetic Therapy, Proprioceptive-Deep Tendon Reflex, and Yoga Tune Up. You can find Josh on YouTube and Instagram at integrated_strength_training.

In today’s episode, I share my framework for cueing and take a deep dive on anatomy based cues, giving you ways to share them with your students.

After a short intro with a quick review of a few topics, I share a short lesson on assisting your students.

What kind of teacher type are you and what challenges might you be facing as a result? Listen to this episode all the way to the end because I share how you fix the problem too!

In the framework I teach for “types of cues” we have action, alignment, anatomy and feeling based. In  today’s episode we take a deeper look at the somatic based/ feeling based cues. This can be an interesting area for you to explore with your students and I share it, not necessarily in the context of teaching just restorative yoga, but instead, ways you can seamlessly blend somatic cues into any class to enhance the experience of the student.