Jason's Tips for Teaching Beginners (and Beginning Again)

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With a new year comes a flood of new students into yoga classes everywhere. Many of those students will be brand new to yoga, while others have re-committed to their yoga practice.

In this first episode of our series on yoga beginners, Jason shares some tips for how to welcome these new students and make them feel "supported, but not hounded" in the yoga room.

While the series will be geared toward teachers, it's important info for those yoga students who will be seeing lots of new faces in their classes, too.

We discuss:

* Why it's so important to put yourself back into the mindset of a beginner if you're teaching new yoga students

* Jason's principles for teaching asanas, or yoga poses, to beginners--and how he keeps his classes consistent without letting them get too boring or stale

* A few strategies for making beginning students feel more comfortable in a new environment and how to be a good host to all of your students

* How yoga teachers can keep their beginning students safe without making them feel called out or inadequate

* More on how the beginning of the year can be an opportunity for yoga teachers to reflect, learn something new, and make tweaks to their teaching approach, too

Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode135/

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 135 of Yoga Land.
0:07.8	Welcome to 2019. How are you doing? How are you feeling? How is your practice feeling? How's your baud feeling? How's your mind feeling? I am
0:20.4	feeling fantastic and I'm not exaggerating because I'm getting over a little cold and I'm past the sort of painful point of the cold even though I don't sound great, but I am at that point where I feel that like spring blooming again inside of me where I feel alive and happy and energetic and able to do all of the things I love to do.
0:44.4	So that's how I'm feeling.
0:45.7	My bod is feeling a little,
0:47.8	that's how my mind is feeling,
0:48.6	my body is feeling a little bit,
0:50.1	a little weak from just not being able to do all of the things for the past few weeks.
0:57.2	And happy to be back podcasting with you for you two weeks off for the first time in two and a half years felt amazing.
1:08.5	So I feel really refreshed and ready to get going again and Jason and I, Jason's my guest today and he has been working on this online course for GLO
1:19.8	that is focused on teaching beginners.
1:22.7	So he's got beginners on the brain for that reason.
1:25.6	And then also as he talks about in this podcast,
1:28.7	January is a year where yoga teachers and fitness teachers get a huge influx of students, a lot of whom are
1:38.6	beginners. So we thought it would be great to focus the next few episodes on how to teach beginners, how
1:45.8	to welcome beginners, and then also if you are starting again, how to start again and be a beginner again.
1:55.0	So we thought we were going to cover a lot more than we did in this one particular episode,
1:59.8	but we just got really deep into the first part of the topic.
2:06.0	So we'll be just, we'll be rolling out a series, we'll be doing more in the next few weeks
2:10.0	and I'm more excited for you to join us and I just wish you a wonderful fresh start wherever you are. Enjoy the interview.
2:20.3	Hi, Jason. Hey Andrea. This seems to be our 2019 situation set up. Yeah. Yeah.
2:26.5	Which is that we're gonna start putting these up as video as well on YouTube.
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