Develop ways to support your students through safe, inclusive yet boundaried teaching practices & adjustments where appropriate
This course draws on yoga's ethical guidelines (yamas and niyamas) and how they influence your teaching practice. You will explore the ways these ethical guidelines relate to professional boundaries as a yoga teacher; from the way you promote yourself online to how you teach in class.
Recognising how exclusive yoga can seem, you will reflect on how you can overcome this to teach in a more accessible and inclusive way.
The course will explore how you can offer cues, modifications and alternatives that engage all the students in the room. With an awareness of the power dynamic that naturally arises between student & teacher, you will learn how you can offer hands on adjustments, when appropriate, that empower your students.
This course can be taken on its own or in conjunction with our other short courses, as part of our Yoga Teacher Mentoring bundle. These courses can be completed independently or with additional 1:1 mentoring with Nathalie.
Outline of course content
Each section includes video tutorials with summary text, followed by practical tasks that put the theory into practice.
Section 1 : teaching yoga in line with its ethical guidelines
- yoga's ethical guidelines and how they relate to teaching
- introduction to teaching yoga inclusively
- ethics of teaching; boundaries and limitations and codes of practice
Section 2 : delving deeper into your teaching
- the different ways you can guide students into asana, with and without touch
- considerations of hands on adjustments and the importance of empowering your students
- adapting, modifying and offering alternatives as a way to create inclusive and accessible classes
- creating safe yoga spaces
Section 3 : practicing what you teach
- considering ways you can develop your teaching and scope of practice
- remembering your own yoga
- setting your own boundaries in order to create an honest teaching practice and business
Who is this course for?
Yoga teachers who want to develop their teaching skills, verbal and hands on cues, whilst also reflecting on the ethical implications of teaching yoga as a whole. This is not simply an adjustments workshop, it asks you to consider why you might want to adjust a student in the first place. It also asks you to consider your role as a teacher and how you can use this in a positive way, in line with yoga's ethical guidelines.
How long will it take?
Approximately 10 hours of study, reflection and practical tasks.
This course can be taken with additional 1:1 mentoring sessions, or in conjunction with our other short courses as part of the mentoring bundle.
Please contact me if you'd like to create your own bespoke training package, or chose your training plan below and start today!
Take a look at our other mentoring courses & bundles
This course can be taken on it's own, or in conjunction with our other mentoring courses. They are all designed to help you develop as a yoga teacher both technically and personally, so that you are carving out a teaching path that you really believe in.
Take these courses online at your own pace, or with additional 1:1 mentoring with Nathalie, who will support you to navigate your way along your individual path as a thriving yoga teacher!
