Before You Teach Your Next Yoga Class, Do This..
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Jason shared what to do when you feel like you've taught the worst yoga class of your life. This week, he’s sharing a few tips for getting in the right headspace before you teach so that you’re more likely to show up for class feeling calm, present, and confident.
We cover:
* How to get grounded before you teach a yoga class -- and why this is a big challenge for so many yoga teachers
* Strategies for using the first few minutes of class to get yourself in the right mindset to teach
* Why having a plan and a back-up plan (a go-to sequence that you know you teach well) can be a saving grace as a yoga teacher
* Why it's important to teach what you're practicing at home
Show notes: http://jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode175
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 175 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.7 | Jason's here, ginger's here, I'm here, we're going to talk about yoga today. |
| 0:14.5 | Yep. |
| 0:15.9 | We're specifically going to talk about getting into a clear head space before you go and teach. And I wonder if you could start by talking about why this came up for you as a topic. |
| 0:31.0 | You know, in the last conversation that we had we talked a lot about just the discomfort in class of not |
| 0:38.1 | Connecting not just feeling like you're not connecting to your own thoughts clearly or your own body or your students who are present in the room. |
| 0:47.2 | And so one of the most important things to do is just to spend a little bit of time to ready yourself before class. |
| 0:54.3 | And I also want to acknowledge that doing so is sometimes really difficult. |
| 0:58.8 | You know the majority of yoga teachers, they're running from place to place to place. You know, most |
| 1:03.8 | yoga teachers schedules are super inefficient because they're not working for |
| 1:10.1 | many hours in a row in their job. They're kind of doing 90 minutes here and then going |
| 1:14.6 | somewhere else for 90 minutes and then a two hour break at the cafe and then one more |
| 1:19.3 | class or a private. And so I always felt kind of harried, you know, when I was teaching, I was teaching, |
| 1:27.2 | God, a lot of classes, at least 15 public classes and a bunch of privates a week for many years. |
| 1:33.7 | And I started to realize that this was a challenge for me, |
| 1:36.3 | is just kind of settling into a mental head space |
| 1:39.6 | and not carrying that scattered fragmented feeling of running from place to place inside. |
| 1:45.8 | Yeah, yeah. So this is kind of how your ideas for prepping before class. |
| 1:53.6 | Yeah, they're the things that I've always done, right? |
| 1:56.0 | You know what I used to do? |
| 1:57.0 | What? |
| 1:58.0 | Like 10 burpies. |
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