New Teacher Practice starting tuesday

Teacher’s Practice Hour
Tuesdays 12 Noon to 1pm

Prashant Iyengar famously once said, “What you are teaching is not what they are learning.” Knowing this, our practice in this weekly class will be to work toward clarity and conciseness in body (sarira), speech (vaca) and mind (citta) in teaching Iyengar Yoga asana classes.
We will practice the many skills of being a good teacher, particularly of asana, but ultimately of all yoga. We will use drills we have learned from our teachers and modified or thought up ourselves through our own personal practice, using the exercises to focus awareness on the different “components” of good teaching:
• Demonstration
• Use of language
• Observation
• Correction
• Timing
• Sequencing
• Use of props
• Teaching/expressing the “essence” of the pose in terms of its stable ground and the direction(s) of its expansion
• Weaving an understanding of the philosophy of Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita into the teaching
• And more
There will also be time to practice combining these separate skills into one event and teaching an entire 6-minute pose or series of poses. This is, after all, the most important part for a teacher. And if we meet every week, there will be plenty of time for you to work on your skills a lot.
Depending on who shows up and at what level you are, we will have one or several groups working on different things in the course of the hour.
The cost of this is $10 per session, to cover the cost of the space. Devon Dederich will serve as general hostess and coordinator, and wrangler of questions.

Clear Spring Studio
Studio: 605 A Copeland St. Austin, TX 78745 Phone: 512-448-0086
Email: Yoga@ClearSpringStudio.Com Web: ClearSpringStudio.com