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Yoga Teacher Training – 5 Tips and Guidelines for How to Be a Great Yoga Teacher
Being a great Yoga Teacher is not easy.   Great Yoga teachers express a series of characteristics and skills that allow them to become popular and retain students over the course of  the years.  By examining these characteristics and skills it becomes possible to integrate these traits into our yoga teaching and become an even better teacher.

This article examines some of the most important Tips and Guidelines for being a great Yoga Teacher!
Tip #1 – Be a Yogi and Live Yoga

Being a Yoga Teacher is not about simply having a good career.  Teaching Yoga is not just a regular job like all the rest.  The most important aspect of Great Yoga Teachers is that they live Yoga.  It is OK to be a part time yoga teacher, and full time Yogi… in fact that is ideal!  It is not OK to be a full time yoga teacher while only being a part-time Yogi.  Yoga students can often sense who are the teachers that practice what they teach.

Tip #2 – Teach with Love not Ego 

Did you know? Nothing benefits the core muscles more than Navasana (VIDEO)

Did you know? Did you know that while many people use the term 'core' to say strengthen your 'core' in various physical modalities like yoga and pilates, there really is only one true CORE muscle... called Iliopsoas (or iliacus and psoas major) and that this is by far the most important muscle to develop with regards to mastering challenging poses. If you don't know what the psoas muscle is, or where it is, I suggest you google it and study it.

When you move from psoas you are able to control your body weight in the field of gravity without falling to the floor. In traditions they say 'engage mula bandha' in yoga asana... what they really mean... is engage psoas muscle... as once you are integrating the lower extremity with the central axis of the body, you are able to master so many Asanas that would have seemed impossible before. Boat pose variation with knees deeply bent is the key!

Benefits of the Boat pose...

•Tones and strengthens your abdominal muscles
•Improves balance and digestion
•Stretches your hamstrings
•Strengthens your spine and hip flexors
•Stimulates the kidneys, thyroid and prostate glands, and intestines
•Aids in stress relief


Boat pose (Navasana) w/knees bent



Arrived in Peru for Lima Yoga Teacher Training!

Just arrived last night into Lima, Peru for the 2011 Fred Busch Power Yoga Teacher Training.
Today i gave a small talk open to the public on 'What is Yoga' and then taught a sold out class.

This year we have at least 18 students for the Training in Lima and i am so looking forward to meeting everyone tomorrow and getting started!

The Teacher Training Program in South America is very strong and Lima Yoga has three locations already!

blessings

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