09/27/2025
As teachers, our role is to guide students toward their own unfolding, not to shape them in our image. Their practice should evolve around their needs, rhythms, and discoveries—so that yoga becomes a living, breathing part of who they are, far beyond our guidance.
🌱Student-Centered Growth: Emphasize that yoga is not about replicating the teacher’s form but about discovering one’s own evolving relationship with breath, body, and awareness.
🪞Practice as Mirror: Share that the mat reflects the student’s life off the mat—their energy, emotions, patterns. Teachers are guides, but the real practice is how students learn to listen, adapt, and grow through their own experience.
🔥Empowerment: Frame teaching as giving students tools rather than prescriptions. The goal is to empower them to carry practice into their own lives, evolving independently of the teacher’s preferences or presence.
🫴🏼Non-Attachment: Connect it to the principle of aparigraha (non-grasping)—teachers let go of ownership of the students’ journey, trusting their path will unfold naturally.
