Want to take your teaching to the next level and keep students coming back? Learn creative cueing and informed modifications so that all your students feel successful—making you the teacher they trust!
Discover a new way of thinking about your teaching beyond basic yoga flows. Learn creative cueing and imagery that effectively teaches students the movement fundamentals they need to deepen their practice and improve their physical and spiritual health.
Do some of your students stop listening to your instructions after they've been attending for awhile? Are you frequently faced with teaching a mixed-level class that throws your class plan out the window? Let experienced yoga instructor and teacher trainer Becca Hewes share her ideas for cueing, imagery, and sequencing for mixed-level classes. As a yoga studio owner for the last 15 years Hewes has taught thousands of hours of yoga classes developing an effective teaching methodology focused on creative verbal cueing. Whether you are a new or experienced yoga teacher, Teaching Yoga will provide you with new ideas to take your teaching to the next level.
Inside Teaching Yoga you'll discover how to
each safer mixed level classes.
Keep students interested in your teaching by changing your cueing.
Modify the basic poses for varying body types.
Help students safely determine their natural limitations due to anatomical differences.
Answer the many questions students frequently ask after class.
Be confident choosing your own words (rather than scripts) and be your true self while teaching.
And much, much, more!
Teaching Yoga is packed with practical teaching tips that have already helped hundreds of graduates of Hewes's teacher trainings establish successful and rewarding classes. Buy Teaching Yoga today and you'll also receive access to included streaming video lessons.
Author(s): Hewes, Becca
Publisher: Yogalife, Inc.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: Teaching Yoga, Creative Cueing for Safer Mixed Level Classes
Pages: 240
Tags: Teaching Yoga, Creative Cueing for Safer Mixed Level Classes
Introduction
1. Guiding Breath Awareness
Deepening the Understanding of the Breath and Our Health
Breathing in Active Asana
Balancing the Cadence and Depth of the Breath with Ujjayi
Traditional Yoga Breathing with Specific Movements
Subtle Breathing Experiences Focusing on One Side
Subtle Breathing Experiences Focusing Behind the Heart
2. Opening and Grounding the Feet
Working with the Feet in Standing Poses
Common Cues that Confuse Some New Students
Variations in Stances for the Standing Poses
Working with Active Feet in All Poses
3. Aligning the Feet and Ankles with the Knees
Ankle Alignment
Teaching Warrior 1 with a Focus on the Feet and Knees
Ankle Range of Motion Only Part of the Story with Squat
Avoiding Meniscus Tears
Hyperextension of the Knee
The Knees and Toes in One-Legged Balances
Lining up the Knees in Goddess
4. Activating the Quadriceps and Glutes
Teaching Notes on Triangle
Creative Imagery for Engaging the Legs
Mobilizing the Glutes
Teaching Notes on Warrior 3
Creative Imagery for Engaging the Glutes Without the Gripping
Balancing on One Leg to Awaken the Glutes
The Challenge of Teaching Seated Poses
5. Stretching the Hips Carefully
Absolute ROM Differs in Individuals
Cobbler
Working with Less Flexible Students
Standing Wide-Legged Forward Bend
Pigeon
Sciatica and Pigeon
Hypermobility
6. Awakening the Core and Stabilizing the Pelvis
Why Not Use the Classic “Belly Button to Spine” Cue?
Bone Cues for the Pelvis
Connecting to the Core through the Sacrum
Teaching Notes on Big Toe Hold
Understanding Pelvic Positions and Stability
Finding the Core in Side-Lying Poses and Exercises
My Thoughts on Traditional Abdominal Exercises and Lumbar Flexion
7. Freeing the Spine
Basic Spinal Anatomy Review
Why the Lumbar is at Risk in Forward Bends
Modifications and Cues for the Less Flexible Students in Seated Forward Fold
Working Students into Beginning Backbends
Learning to Twist Through the Ribs
Teaching Notes on Revolved Standing Poses
Using the Breath to Deepen the Twisting Experience
Introducing Pinwheel
8. Stabilizing the Shoulders and Opening the Chest
Teaching Students How Their Shoulders Work
Shoulder Stretches Mixed with the Standing Poses
Working with a Dowel to Open the Shoulders
Aligning the Shoulders in Standing Poses
Working with the Shoulders in Side Angle
Teaching Downward Dog
Modified Sun Salutations
Positional Awareness and Stabilization of the Shoulder Blades
9. Supporting the Wrists, Hands, and Elbows
Reducing Wrist Pain with New Students
Breaking the Pattern of Hyperextension
Elbow Position in Four-Limbed Staff (Chaturanga)
Hyperextension vs. the Carrying Angle of the Elbow
The Fingers in Standing Postures
Teaching Notes on Side Plank
10. Realigning the Neck and Head
Aligning the Head on Top of the Neck
Happy Necks in Side Angle and Triangle
Working on Turning the Head in Warrior 2
Awareness of the Chin/Chest Connection
Keeping the Chin/Chest Connection in Camel
Teaching Inversions with Chin/Chest Connection
Building Strength and Awareness before Inversions
Lifting C6/C7 in Shoulderstand and Plow
Tips for Avoiding Neck Injuries
11. Shavasana: The Relaxation Pose
Why is Shavasana so Important in Today’s Culture?
Teaching Shavasana to Mixed Level Groups
Starting Shavasana with Pranayama
Notes
Videos Included:
Yogalife.tv/getvideos
Yogalife.tv
Practice Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Editor
