When I started teaching yoga, I wasn’t familiar with the idea of a “kinetic chain.” It was only many years later, when I was studying for my Certified Personal Training exam, that the concept came up in my textbook. It describes the body’s...
When you teach yoga, do you notice certain things that need correcting in your student’s posture? I’m not talking about trying to make a pose perfect; I’m talking about things that you know that if adjusted, the person would feel so much...
I got an email recently from a yoga teacher and she asked: “What can you do if you cue and cue alignment in your yoga teaching and you still see improper alignment in students?” This begs the question, “How can you shift your teaching when the...
When I started out as a teacher, I was taught alignment. I was taught the shapes of the poses and the cues to help students make these shapes with their bodies. Things like, “Stack your knee over your heel” and “roll your shoulder back” became...
If you’re a yoga teacher, you’ve probably noticed that some people in your class are really distracted. If you’ve been teaching for a long time, like me, you’ve probably noticed it’s gotten MUCH worse in the past few years. When in the...
