12/08/2022
Something that comes up often in teacher training is the stigma revolving around your capacity to do every single yoga pose and whether or not your capacity to do these shapes determines your ability to teach yoga and to be a good teacher.
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But, if you happen to have a beautiful, strong, technically advanced practice, it doesn't necessarily mean you will automatically be a great teacher.
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I believe that you do need to have an advanced yoga practice, as in, you need to have been practising yoga for some years, you need to have an understanding of what’s happening anatomically in the shapes, an understanding of all of the other components of the practice philosophically, ethically, etc, but that you don’t necessarily need to be able to do say a handstand in the middle of the room or full splits to be able to be a good teacher.
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Now to clarify, I do feel that if you want to teach handstands, then yes, absolutely it makes sense to be able to do them or at least be working on them yourself in your own practice… But to teach yoga as a whole, a handstand or whatever shape you’re worried about is not a prerequisite.
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What makes you a good teacher is your ability to communicate clearly and efficiently. An understanding that every single person's body is different. A comprehension of how to adapt and provide options for this variety of bodies that showed up on that day. The capacity to read the room as you're teaching and identify the energy, capabilities and overall level of your class and whether what you have prepared is appropriate.
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