Strategies for Teaching Yoga Group Classes

1. Introduction: Hello everyone. My name is Pedro and I'm a yoga instructor in this course, I'm going to teach you some of the strategy which I chose to teach my group your classes. I'm going to share my experience in this class, how to teach group classes. This class is suitable for those who wanted to be a teacher and those who just finished yoga teacher training course and just starting teaching. I think you will find so many good information from this course. Here we begin. 2. Strategies for Teaching Yoga Group Classes: Now, let's dock on the base of the class. In a yoga class, there are many types of classes, some of advanced and some multi-level and above totally beginner's classes. There is a fast-paced class, medium pace glass, and the slope is glass. As a yoga teacher, you sort to understand slope is classes are easier to follow, so everyone can follow easily. The best classes is little tough for the beginners. So as you can see in one group your class, there are many levels of students. Some of the advance and some of the just join one or two month before. And some of super knew the fast-paced classes. You understand. Those who are not familiar with yoga practice. For them, it's very difficult to follow the sequence. So what I do in my class, I always follow my instructions as much you can. But be aware of your own pace. Go out of bread. Take time while you inhale and exhale. No rush. In this way, I give them some absence, some choices. Those who are advanced, they follow my instructions as quick deck hand. Those who are beginners and those who are not familiar with the sequence. They take little time. After the class they fill. Of course, they feel quite challenging, quite hard. But it's still, they feel they have enough time to inhale and exhale and they feel the class is quite accessible. That's the way I teach fast-paced classes. Now, less dock on experience the posture rather than focus on how it looks like. So of course, it's a common tendency if somebody is already knew more focus on outside, look, the, for example, if I save this height angle pose, dispose their focus on most of the knee over the ankle type parallel. And this knee straight and make a straight line from the foot to the hint and open the chest or the ceiling. What I mean. So I always tell my students the instructions I'm giving you. These are the ideal. Now the side angle pose, your knee or the ankle is ideal. If you go too much further is not bad. But sometime it gives you too much pressure on the knee joint. So type parallel to the Met. Normally it up. If you go to the mat, you need to use your internal Sprint, which is good. My instructions or the ideal. But when you do your yoga pose, you feel, do you have inquiry where you're filling effect, how you're feeling in your muscles, how you're feeling in your hip joint, How are you feeling in your site? So experienced the posture by yourself, do your self-inquiry, filling effect. So I always focus on what you're feeling in your posture rather than the outside. Look. Now, let's talk on counterparts. In a yoga. Balanced left and the right side, front or the back side. For example. Each position like an iffy stretch this way. For the 5 second, you do the other side five seconds. Then if we do the Feyerabend five compound or the ten count, we do put with an Athena five count or ten count. But sometime venue do some challenging posture like a servant, Astana, shoulder extend, then lastname, then current period, Astana. These three posture when you are doing for a long time, coming out of the posture. This is my suggestion. Always take a little pause, at least one or two bread. You set yourself first, then go for the counter pose. Now take another example. He'll post or the order will pose is challenging posture. And if you're holding this posture for a long time, like a 45 seconds or one minute. And men coming out of the posture do not sit immediately. And the Feyerabend for those who are regular, they might. Okay. But those who are not familiar with this posture, they find it too difficult. It's a good idea. Take one or two Breadth-First, then you sit up and do the counter is stretch. In my classes, I always give some options. Now for example, if I gave, he'll post after the veal posts when they come back. So I always say, Now, take your time. And relax. Don't value like if you like, you can hug your knees. If you simply lie on your back. If you like, you can do twist side-to-side. Just see in which way do not relax. Now, let's talk on progressive step, for example, when you're teaching your pluses and in the end of the class, when it's ready and prepared for the difficult posture. Now for example, if you see head spin, you did all the provision now when his time is coming, this pen. So sometimes you can give some absence to post the students. Those who are already very good in the header stand. You can give them some options, like different kinds of addition in the head stand, the forearm balanced. So those who are already prepared tried to give them a little more challenging posture. They will improve faster if they already do not, stop them, try to encourage them to go a little more advanced postures. Of course, look at the safety first. Now, let's talk on focus on a bread. Now, this is very important in the yoga class. Yoga means breathing. Just think of this way. Sometime I say in my class, Thank you. Doing hitting exercise means be aware how you bleeding in your each posture. So I just always tell them your focus first on your stability. Whatever posture you're doing. Just focus on the stability first. If you are this table, you can find your red is become getting a smooth. And if you're not stable in the posture, you will find always jokes in your bread. If you're not breathing well during your postures, during your practice, you might appeal. After the class. You might feel restless and tire. So breathing is fairly important. So always tell them. Focus on your breath and take your time while inhale and exhale, you're reading what makes yoga unique? Now, let's talk on some of the specific word which can make students confused. For example, if you take simple this posture decide angle, again. This partial for example, you give all the instructions. And if you feel that stretch on your waist, sometime, what happens is students cannot feel a stretch on the wall waste because they already too flexible in any posture. E1, the symbol cross, atoms like this. If you say feel that stretch in your shoulder, some Eastern really cannot feel because they are too flexible from the shoulders. Sometimes what happen if you use this kind of fill that specific place? This rich n is two and cannot fill. And then they got confused. They think they're doing something wrong. So instead of, you can say, notice you feeling effect. What I mean, when you say that a specific place feel that stretch here, feel the effect here. Sometime some history and they cannot feel that way. They get confused. Whenever you're giving instruction. Be aware of this point. Now, let's talk about dyslexia when you start teaching your classes. Sometimes not most of the time, but sometimes you can find some other students. They have the tendency. They cannot judge. Left, right side. They always get confused. Many shorter. Right side, left side, left side, the right side, one or two time, when you correct these historians uses finding it out, which is strength. Again and again the same thing. Maybe this, they have this kind of tendency is called, I think, if I'm not wrong is called dyslexia. They cannot judge very first, left and right. And if you say right leg front, left leg, front, right, or the left knee, left knee or the right. They cannot just fast. So if you find any student have this kind of tendency, they cannot judge well. So B pieces, please do not get angry on them. Not doing this purposively. It doesn't matter actually, if you're doing from the right side posture than the website or left side or the right side. That is actually not a rule. We make this right side so everyone have this kind of sequence in mind. Right side, left side. Otherwise, if you didn't upside right side, it doesn't matter. If you find this kind of a strand, if this kind of tendency. Be little careful, do not sound on them. Respect them. Now, let's talk on Yogis. I see your style, what I mean, each teacher have different way of teaching. So you can see sometimes some of the student comes to your class. Those who already know yoga, you're giving them instructions. They will do the same thing, but in a different way. Do not get angry on them because that's the way they train from his or her previous teacher. The sometime what happen? Like a menu teaching like atoms or the head. Maybe you're teaching this way and they will do this way. Because the way they learned before, that's completely fine. Monday practice video again and again. Then they stop this kind of tendencies. Now, let's talk on hands on adjustment. This is very sensitive things, correct? Somebody not for me in my experience, if somebody comes new in my class, I networked touch. Always taught to lie this like this, like this. Then after the class and I talk with them, benefit each other than before, I give the collection after few classes than I ask them, can I do some collection? So you might have little different experience? If he or she said Yeah. Okay. Yeah, sure. Then you can go for the collection in the first-class. If I don't know anybody, I never touch, always take that mission first. Now, let's talk on the question. This is the question some of the students, those who became a teacher, now, they asked me discussion. So I'm going to share some of the questions, answers, video. So they asked me to teach class. Sometimes. We feel classes not going the way we want. It's happened video. Now, you're teaching from a longtime answer is yes. Sometimes, sometimes you can have this kind of different energy expedience. That time. My suggestion is this kind of have this kind of feel not classes going something out off the track. More conscious that time, and never make any changes in your class. This is the same class, what you're teaching normally. Change. Do not try to make any change your thinking. If I do some changes, everything will be okay. No. Maybe sometime is the energy of the class is not that much. You want. Change your sequence, the sequence which you already have in your mind. Now, another question in the heart class, there are some of the student, not some, maybe just one student, make noise and disturb the class. What should I do? And CSA, it happens video. I said, maybe this is number. Once a while, you can find this kind of student. What I do before I used to get angry, man, I start teaching. But now everything is under control. What I do, if I see some students who make noise and disturbing the class, I give them a warning list. Don't do this. Disturbing the class. I say one time to time, and three times after three time, I go to the reception and everything this strlen disturbing all the class, please send them some mail messages if management cannot help you. And this is turn is coming again in the class and describing the glass. Next what to do? I just ignore that student and focusing on my other strand, those who are coming to me to learn something. So think of, if you think of that kind of student, that negative is student means you're fighting with them here. You cannot give your best to others. Those giving you one hour of life. For the practice. Your focus should be on those historian, not that Stern, who is distributed others. And believe me, just focus on this thing, just ignore that is stolen and focus on others. It might do everything, but never do any argument. Because when your argument it will disturb all class. Just ignore that is strlen and focus on others. That's your job. Now, let's dock on. As a teacher. What is your job now, for me is very important. As a teacher, visit the environment. The positive environment where a student can grow. So how a student learned. You take the example, mother, father and their kids. What mother, father, do kids learn. Teach them the same way as a teacher is your responsibility. You have to be discipline. Now the, for me, those who know me very well, I always enter in my class. Or maybe 15 minutes before. Now see high, I go 15 minutes before in my class. When I go to my class gifting month before I first thing I see, the room is clean or not. If it's not clean, I can tell the cleaner to clean it so I have enough time to clean. Second thing, I see the temperature. What is the temperature there? It is good for the other practice. If it's too cold is not good for the yoga practice. So I check their temperature. Number, tired, I check the music system and sound system because I use them like in my class. Because if classes too big, last one is two, I cannot hear what you are talking. I'd set my mic and start coming into the class. I always tell them where to put your med. So I said the mat way. It will be not like this one material, one material, one material. Sometime what happen after a new start your class? Then if somebody's coming inside the class, so they don't have enough space because Matt is not orange very well. Then it takes lot of time to correct the mat and make this space so it disturb the class. As a teacher, is your job, your responsibility? That kind of environment, where they come, they will learn easily everything. That's the reason I always go early in my classes. So I want to start class in the exact time. Now, another benefit when you go early in the class as a teacher. So when somebody's coming, just say hi, welcome them. Sometime because newest event, they have so many fears inside. And some of the students, they're very introvert. Not to open. Enter the class. You just say it will just show this gesture. Will feel comfortable. Sometimes you can talk with them. They say, what's your name? Class before? Just tell them feel free to look around and follow as much you can because this is your first-class. And I want you to just have fun. That's it. No need to post too much. Then after that you can see there feel quite good and they like to come again in your classes. As a teacher, you should know these smallest Mal thinks it works very well as a teacher for new to the Class, Charlie, your students, they will follow. You. Don't need to tell them again and again. Please come on time, come on time. Some of the students, they of course, always come late because of the reason maybe their office and works. Just not with them because of their work or the office. They always come late. So give respect then, be nice with them. Now, let's talk on afraid of teaching classes. As a new teacher. I can understand everybody had to go from somewhere. So I will tell you there's some other things what my teacher taught me. He said, You prepare more, you focus on yourself rather than outside. You will have good experience. And it's true once you have your own sequence, when you have the sequence, what class you're going to teach those sequence when you have in your mind. So 50% you're already confident what you're going to teach. For example, if you don't have good sequence or you have only a half sequence, that it might disturbing you from here, mentally. Do the preparation, what sequence you're going to teach. The second thing, never afraid of fill, just go and teach. Your job is only your teaching video that expedience because you have done your detail. You have some experience. How good is yoga? And you are going to share the same experience with others who are not afraid of people like your class or not. And by the time you will get better and better. Remember, this is a practice. You have a blackface everyday, everyday, everyday. With the time you will improve teaching, is that teachers best teacher. Video expedients. That's it. Now, let's talk about some of the skills as a yoga teacher, if you work on your skills, like how to give the correct, since that is very good at skills and with the time it will improve its own. The second is the way you explain posture or the things X notes. And when you finish your class, Just think of What, what you can do something a little better. Find it out with your teaching. What you can do more improve. And sometimes you'll see another teacher how they're teaching. Whatever you like. You think. This is a header way. Try to teach the same thing, the same way. Your class. So I'm not telling you to copy exactly something, but understand how they can explain things. Easier way. That's you have to learn, work on your skills. 3. Thankyou : Hi, I'm so happy to share my experience, the diol. And I think as a new teacher, this class might help you a lot when you start your teaching. And if you have any kind of questions, so please feel free to ask me if I know. I'm giving you the answer. If I don't know, I will say simply know what afraid. Just teach and teach with a good intention and it will works. You will be successful. I'll see you next time. Bye-bye.