Yoga Career Success: How to make students relax and feel at ease in your workshop?

To make students feel relaxed and comfortable in a yoga workshop, you can give them some context and expectation in the beginning of the class. Help them in feeling at ease throughout the session, by following simple steps like making an announcement before starting every class, like:


“I might modify some of your asanas to a little extent, so that I can ensure that you are doing them in the ways, which are most advantageous to you. “


"Please make use of the blanket and the mat as well. You will require both of them for certain postures on the floor beneath the bony areas such as hips and knees."


"Please assure that you are absolutely at ease with whatever you are performing. If you are not feeling comfortable with a pose, or feel that it is inducing you pain, let me know or simply take rest."


"If you are having any trouble in breathing regularly, or you feel dizzy or lightheaded, take smaller, normal resting breaths. Don’t put any strain on yourself."


"Yoga is liberation, both physically and emotionally. If you feel any difficulty, take rest. Yoga is not meant to give you pain, and if you are receiving any pain doing anything, please let me know, so that I can find the accurate adaptation for your body."


Some significant tips to reckon concerning your communication with students, while carrying on your yoga workshop:


1) Be clear and accurate with directions. Sometimes an asana can be taught without giving exclusive demonstrations.


2) Alter the volume of your voice according to the situation. For instance, you can use a higher, louder and stronger tone for a more demanding asana, and a more flaccid one for a more relaxing posture.


3) Select appropriate words to generate effects and feelings, from elaborated anatomical muscular and skeletal directions to poetic imaging propositions.


4) Select a dialogue that is based on the current and instant reflection of what is actually happening. Guide the class and individuals in the desired direction. Stay flexible so that you can change the course of your direction depending on how the class is progressing and how well you know your students.


5) Avoid using any written script.


The numerous practices of yoga have apparently evolved and formulated many paths with every yoga form that has come forth. This has created a fusion of various approaches in what we see today in yoga world. Many approaches have been included in the yoga styles from outside realms like dance, martial arts, gymnastics, functional anatomy and physical therapy, which continue to get inculcated in yogic practices to develop and refine into further new approaches.


Related reads that might interest you:



Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques Guiding Yoga's Light: Lessons for Yoga Teachers Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship

Comments

Popular Posts