How to Become a Great Yoga Teacher Without Spending a Dime on Teacher Training
Mara Colbert
Language: English
Pages: 72
ISBN: 2:00076193
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Do you love yoga? Are you inspired by how great yoga makes you feel and you want to share your passion with others by becoming a yoga teacher?
BUT . . . Have you researched yoga teacher training courses only to find out they cost anywhere from $1,000 to $3,000 or more?
For less than the cost of a drop-in class at a typical yoga studio "How to Become a Great Yoga Teacher Without Spending a Dime on Teacher Training," by veteran yoga teacher and former studio owner Mara Colbert, will teach you:
EXACTLY what you need to do to become a great yoga teacher
Which postures are important to know and how to teach them effectively
Yogic breathing
Essential yoga history and philosophy
How to sequence yoga postures
How to cultivate ambience through music and lighting
How to adjust and correct students safely and effectively
Why you don’t need a “certification” to teach yoga
What the Yoga Alliance is — and what it isn’t — and why you don’t need to be an RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher)
How to get teaching jobs and cultivate job security n a tough economy”
The step-by-step guide includes photos and descriptions, along with tips about alignment, hands-on adjustments, communication skills, and much more.
This informative and readable book will leave you inspired, relieved, and motivated to go after that dream, knowing you are on the path to teaching, sharing, healing, and helping others through your love of yoga — all without spending a dime on teacher training!
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has become popular to refer to the meditative path as Raja Yoga so as not to confuse it with the popular physical style of hatha yoga that is also called Ashtanga Yoga. Here, the eight-limbed path refers to the sadhana a yogi follows to achieve Samadhi, or bliss, as laid out by Patanjali in The Yoga Sutras. The eight limbs are: 1. Yama – code of conduct, or self-restraint • Ahimsa – compassion or non-violence • Satya – truthfulness • Asteya – non-stealing • Brahmacharya –
balanced practice will consist of a fairly equal number of standing postures, seated postures, forward bends, backward bends, twists, and inversions. Typically standing postures will precede seated postures and inversions, although this may vary depending on the tone you intend to set. For example, if you want the practice to feel very nurturing and calming, you may start out with supine postures to relax the nervous system, then gently introduce standing postures and inversions. If you want to
Santosha contentment Saucha cleanliness or purity Satya truthfulness Siddhis seemingly magical spiritual gifts or powers Svadhyaya self-study and study of sacred texts Tapas discipline or austerity Ujjayi pranayama literally “victorious” (Sanskrit), It is practiced by toning the back of the throat and breathing as though through a small hole on the base of your throat, instead of through your nostrils, cultivating the sound of wind or water Vayus five vital currents of
evenly through the “four corners” of the feet, whether you are standing on them, or not. So in seated postures, or when a leg is up in the air, the toes are spread and energetic, and there is expansion through both the heels and the balls of the feet. • Drishti: Sanskrit for “gaze” or “point of focus,” each asana has a prescribed drishti, such as the tip of the nose, the third eye (point between the eyebrows), the hand, big toe, or simply “side” or “up.” These are not set in stone, and you
beneath shoulders. Use your core strength to draw up the belly, tuck your tailbone and your front ribs in, and soften between the shoulder blades. Extend energy out through the heels and the crown of the head. Gaze at tip of the nose or straight ahead. 8. Ashtanga Namaskara (Knees-Chest-Chin): As the name suggests, drop your knees, chest, and chin down, gazing straight ahead. The buttocks are lifted for a gentle arch in the spin. (8a) Another option here is Chaturanga Dandasana