How to Be an Exceptional Online Yoga Teacher
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Learning to teach yoga online is vital right now. But if you're used to teaching yoga in person, it can feel really daunting! On this episode, we break down what you can do to feel more comfortable and truly connect with your yoga students -- even through a Zoom room.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 184 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:06.5 | So oh my gosh |
| 0:10.2 | Last time we did a Yogaogoland episode was with Shannon Roche and COVID-19 had just sort of started to come to the U.S. |
| 0:22.0 | And now here we are in the thick of it. |
| 0:25.0 | In the thick of it. |
| 0:26.0 | Lot has changed for all of us. |
| 0:30.0 | Yes. |
| 0:31.0 | And we thought we could try to help everyone navigate the changes as skillfully as possible. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, I think two things that come up for me real quick, which is number one, as everything has been making this significant shift, I taught a hundred hour online training. |
| 0:52.0 | Right. And in it, I'm giving a lot hour online training. Right. |
| 0:53.0 | And in it, I'm giving a lot of mentoring |
| 0:55.7 | to many students who are many teachers, |
| 0:58.9 | who are full-time teachers, and they're |
| 1:00.4 | having to completely shift into the digital landscape. |
| 1:04.0 | And so fortunately, we kind of have a ton of experience already in this short period of time |
| 1:11.0 | figuring out what people need to know in order to convert their live |
| 1:16.2 | content to online content. |
| 1:18.9 | The other thing is I have taught online for a long time with Globe, but I've never been doing |
| 1:23.4 | live streams. But over the course of the last three weeks I now have all this other |
| 1:27.8 | experience doing live streams and what works, what doesn't work, not just |
| 1:32.1 | from a tech perspective, but really from an educational |
| 1:34.7 | perspective. |
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