Alexandria Crow on Being a Transparent Yoga Teacher

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Yoga, Yogaland, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Alexandria Crow grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family and her grandfather was a traveling preacher. These days she travels the country teaching yoga -- and it recently dawned on her that there are parallels between the two. Because of this, she's careful about not cultivating a guru persona -- her hope is to teach her students to use the tools that she presents to investigate on their own and think for themselves. We talk about this idea of being "transparent" as a teacher, the role of charisma in teaching yoga, and the vulnerable place that students can unconsciously find themselves in if they have a teacher who isn't clear about their role and their boundaries.Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode40/

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0:30.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 40 of Yoga Land. On today's episode, Alexandria Crow is back. I'm so happy that Alex wanted to come
0:47.4	back on the show. She was here for episode 8 and we talked about a lot of things.
0:53.4	We talked about our favorite comedians.
0:55.4	But perhaps most importantly, we talked about why
0:57.5	fancy yoga isn't better yoga.
0:59.9	Alex's incredibly wise and a clear thinker. And when we were going back and forth to decide on this topic we had a mind meld.
1:07.6	We both wanted to talk about what it means to be a yoga teacher right now.
1:12.2	It's a very nuanced topic. what it means to be a yoga teacher right now.
1:12.8	It's a very nuanced topic.
1:15.0	Alex deals with it really well.
1:16.3	And we talk about several facets.
1:18.3	So we talk about who are you, when you become a yoga teacher,
1:22.2	how do you conduct yourself how important
1:24.3	is it that you are transparent with your students and how important is it that you understand
1:30.3	your own charisma the power of your own charisma. We also talk about the expectations
1:36.0	that students might have of you that you might be completely unaware of
1:41.7	before you start teaching.
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