How to Change Your Teaching Style Without Losing Your Students

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is a continuation of last week’s discussion on how to cope with changes to your yoga practice and teaching style. Jason shares his practical tips on how to change up your teaching style with grace -- something that is particularly challenging when your livelihood depends on an earlier approach.

We talk about:

* How Jason got his start teaching in the Ashtanga tradition, and why he began to lose interest in that and move on to more technique-oriented approach to vinyasa yoga

* A few of the pose techniques that Jason has changed his opinions on (and why). He talks about his approach to backbends, twists, Anjaneyasana (Low Lunge), and Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (Pigeon Pose).

* Why it’s a good idea to make changes to your yoga teaching schedule slowly over time, especially if you're making a drastic change

* How to communicate subtle changes to longtime students in a way that’s both diplomatic and respectful

Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode149

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 149 of Yoga Land.
0:04.3	So last week I said I might be letting go of the episode numbers
0:09.3	but you know I struggle with change so clearly I have not made that change yet and that's kind of
0:15.6	apropos I wasn't really wasn't planning this but it is related to today's
0:20.4	episode last week we talked about change and how we change involved in our
0:24.8	yoga practice and teaching and Jason sort of shared what that internal process was like
0:30.4	for him when that first started happening and then today he's going to talk about how he has actually
0:36.2	implemented changes over the years and just kind of how to go about it because it's his belief and mine as well that it's a
0:46.1	good thing to evolve and to make changes and little software updates to the
0:52.3	micro level of your teaching and then perhaps even to the macro level if that's necessary for you.
0:58.0	So that's what we talk about today.
1:00.0	Jason is currently in the middle of teaching module two here at Love Story in San Francisco of his
1:07.0	500-hour training and I am immersed in the online meditation and self-care course.
1:14.2	So we're both doing what makes us happiest,
1:17.4	besides parenting and being together
1:19.8	and watching bad TV.
1:21.5	And so I just wish for you that you are feeling fulfilled and full and enjoying the vibrancy of being live.
1:30.0	And if you enjoy the podcasts, it's always so helpful to get five-star ratings and reviews on Apple
1:36.0	podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. They are a bright spot in my day, and appreciate them so much and I appreciate you so much.
1:46.1	Okay, we are back. This is essentially part two of the last discussion we had.
1:52.8	We were talking about what to do as a yoga teacher
1:56.8	when you start to feel like your practice is changing
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