Teaching Yoga Without Demonstrating: Yoga Coaching Clips, Yoga Teaching Strategies

Описание: How To Teach Yoga Without Demonstrating

There will be times where, for a variety of reasons, you want to teach some or all of your yoga class without demonstrating every pose. So how do you teach yoga without ‘doing’ yoga?

Why might you not want to/be able to demonstrate?

• Injury, disability, recovery
• Maybe you are dealing with fatigue, or you are experiencing some repetitive strain if you are teaching a lot of yoga.
• Perhaps there are certain times of the month you want to demonstrate less due to illness or pain or safety.
• If you are pregnant or recently postnatal and not all poses are safe for you to demo.
• Teaching outdoors or to a large group where they can’t hear you if you are in poses.
• Wanting to move around the room to offer props and support.
• You might not be able to demonstrate certain poses, for example if you have a sinus infection and you can’t demonstrate anything with your head below your hips.
• Or, you just want to develop other teaching strategies.

Tell Your Students You’ll Be Demonstrating Less

You might introduce the idea that you will be demonstrating less, and you don’t have to explain why if you don’t want to. “I will be demonstrating a little less then usual/what you are used to today, so stay tuned to my cues”

A Few Strategies to Consider:

• Physical cues like gestures, tapping, signalling larger movements using smaller motions.
• Use your arms for legs, hands for feet to illustrate movements.
• Semi-demos – demo part of the pose, perhaps the entrance into the pose, then let them know you’ll come out and they can stay in.
• Demo from a chair or Swiss ball
• Demo things that are awkward or unfamiliar (lion, falling out breath, happy baby)
• Beginners will rely on your demos a lot
• Demo tricky poses and transitions – perhaps even use tell-show-do strategy


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