The Upsides of Online Teaching with Erin Jorich
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is Erin Jorich, a yoga teacher from Minnesota who is also serving as a mentor teacher in Jason’s 300-hour teacher training this year. I really enjoyed learning more about her path from an MTV-taught dancer in her college years to becoming the talented yoga teacher she is today.
I also found her perspective on the positive aspects of teaching yoga online refreshing. We agree that there’s something authentic and real about practicing with people who are in the comfort of their own homes--whether their cameras are on or off!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 225 of YogaLan. |
| 0:09.1 | Today, my guest is Erin Jorrett. |
| 0:11.6 | So I'm continuing on this week with featuring a mentor from Jason's 300 hour training. |
| 0:18.6 | So in other words, |
| 0:20.4 | Erin has a group of students who she is mentoring in our virtual training. |
| 0:25.8 | Erin is from the Minneapolis St. Paul area and before I spoke to her, |
| 0:30.8 | Jason said to me, you might have to really draw things out of Erin. |
| 0:34.2 | You know, she's, she's a modern, a modest Midwesterner, like me. |
| 0:40.0 | I think Erin is very warm and that it wasn't her to draw her out at all. |
| 0:45.5 | She's been teaching for over 10 years and we just talked about her background |
| 0:50.5 | as a dancer, how her yoga has changed. |
| 0:53.1 | She calls herself a hot mess when she started about 10 years ago and also how she is enjoying |
| 1:00.4 | teaching on Zoom. It was so refreshing to hear someone talk about the things that they enjoy |
| 1:05.8 | about teaching on Zoom and this is the second person who I've heard say this and I'm just |
| 1:11.5 | pretty fascinated by it. I mean, obviously, Erin, you know, as well as everyone else feels like |
| 1:17.5 | there's things that are missing, but I think that anonymity for the students can be a really |
| 1:23.5 | beautiful thing. And so I think it's helpful to just bring that perspective in wherever you are |
| 1:29.2 | right now. I have massive Zoom fatigue. And so it was nice for me to remember that there are |
| 1:39.4 | some benefits and that you can turn off your camera and as a teacher, she really doesn't mind, |
| 1:43.4 | which is also really nice. I mean, I think for a teacher to be okay with meeting their students |
| 1:49.5 | where they are is what makes a great teacher. And, you know, she said she's just absolutely fine |
| 1:55.6 | with teaching a class to the black squares. And the only thing she asks is that people say hi or, |
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