Thank you Adam for another nurturing episode, you bring it always to the point, I really love your huge honesty, transparency, empathy and capacity of discernment, and I love the themes you choose for the reflections. I don’t know if ypu remember about me, but I was your student as you were living in Tarifa (Spain). I started with you my journey into yoga durig those one-to-one classes and I can only say that I am really grateful for that. Thanky you for all you keep on offering to and for YOGA 🙏🏻
Yes, of course I remember you!! with the clothing business… Anyway, thank you, glad you liked this and maybe see you again sometime perhaps? best of wishes .
I've been teaching for just over six years and I relate to this so much. It can be confusing, it can make you question yourself and what you are doing, the pressure of student expectations etc-everything you said goes through my mind on the regular. It was refreshing to hear it coming from someone else's mouth. All we can do as teachers is show up, be ourselves, share what we know, be vulnerable and imperfect and hold space for people to experience the practice for themselves. Thank you Adam! ☮
thanks for listening! yes, I don’t think you’re the only one from the messages I’ve received - and nice to hear from my side too , that it’s not just me ! haha. See; if we had a kind of regular support structure connecting us all like this, things would be a lot easier for us!
Prabhu, you are 100% on point!!! 🙏🙏🙏It’s good to know I’m not the only one who’s had these thoughts about the predicament of the modern day yoga teacher. I am E-RYT 500 & a CSCS (certified strength & conditioning coach) but years I was a full time yoga teacher. The revolving door of students , competition with other teachers for head counts, students doing handstands during class when I’m trying to teach Uttanasana, ect , yoga studio politics, getting tricky questions about injury/rehab, rushing from studio to studio make enough to pay my rent - I’ve been there, done that 😅 it wasn’t until I became a Strength & Conditioning Coach that I experienced the things you mentioned that are missing from the yoga teaching profession- steady full time employment, collaboration with colleagues, mandatory continuing education yearly mentorship’s, definitive professionalism, ect 😂 I still teach (bc I love it) but where I truly feel I can really apply yogic teaching principles & help people make progress is through my S&C coaching . What I strive to be is a Yoga teacher-informed/inspired S&C coach 😊 and to your point, the most important thing we can do as yoga teachers is to hold space for individuals , allow them to show up as are, & help them to breathe better 😊 thank you so much for sharing your thoughts & insights 🙏🙏 you are AMAZING!! ✨✨✨
thanks for listening, and equally, your thoughts are exactly my own experience. You elaborate on the points perfectly! As I say, the whole thing needs a framework of proper support and mentorship- and general professionalism. Then imagine what could be done with yoga! Sorry for the brevity of my reply compared to yours, for I really enjoyed reading your message. cheers.
No worries, Prabu! 👍🙏 and YES! Proper framework & support + mentorships would be a such a positive GAME CHANGER in the Yoga teaching world 😃 maybe it will get there one day 😁
Another refreshingly honest discussion, Adam. Thank you. I too have worried about the pushing of yoga anatomy, all the latin and medical jargon certainly suggests some kind of medical role - and that worries me. Likewise with yoga therapy - even the term seems a little bit of an overreach. And the marketing of all these courses is quite aggressive sometimes, maybe even preying on one's insecurities as a newly qualified yoga teacher. It's not good, is it. I love how you frame the central role of a modern yoga teacher - to hold space. And I think to encourage autonomy, too - offer our students the options and space to develop their own practice and have their own sense of self-achievement from that. Safely, of course, but often that comes from knowing your limits and referring on to other professionals as opposed to skilling up in things beyond your role. Anyway, great episode. Thanks again!
glad you appreciated the discussion. I think all too often one is tempted to over-sell as the purveyor of space - ‘no thing’ is not exactly enticing to most! 😅 And, yes, all the medical jargon I find quite ridiculous if not irrelevant - and the overreach. i actually have a friend who’s a surgeon, and he would claim to know a lot less about the implications of a lot of these movements on the body than many of these modern yoga teachers are convinced they can tell you categorically about ! thanks as always for listening.
So beautifully said thank you 🙏
Thank you Adam for another nurturing episode, you bring it always to the point, I really love your huge honesty, transparency, empathy and capacity of discernment, and I love the themes you choose for the reflections. I don’t know if ypu remember about me, but I was your student as you were living in Tarifa (Spain). I started with you my journey into yoga durig those one-to-one classes and I can only say that I am really grateful for that. Thanky you for all you keep on offering to and for YOGA 🙏🏻
Yes, of course I remember you!! with the clothing business… Anyway, thank you, glad you liked this and maybe see you again sometime perhaps? best of wishes .
I've been teaching for just over six years and I relate to this so much. It can be confusing, it can make you question yourself and what you are doing, the pressure of student expectations etc-everything you said goes through my mind on the regular. It was refreshing to hear it coming from someone else's mouth. All we can do as teachers is show up, be ourselves, share what we know, be vulnerable and imperfect and hold space for people to experience the practice for themselves. Thank you Adam! ☮
thanks for listening!
yes, I don’t think you’re the only one from the messages I’ve received - and nice to hear from my side too , that it’s not just me ! haha.
See; if we had a kind of regular support structure connecting us all like this, things would be a lot easier for us!
Prabhu, you are 100% on point!!! 🙏🙏🙏It’s good to know I’m not the only one who’s had these thoughts about the predicament of the modern day yoga teacher. I am E-RYT 500 & a CSCS (certified strength & conditioning coach) but years I was a full time yoga teacher. The revolving door of students , competition with other teachers for head counts, students doing handstands during class when I’m trying to teach Uttanasana, ect , yoga studio politics, getting tricky questions about injury/rehab, rushing from studio to studio make enough to pay my rent - I’ve been there, done that 😅 it wasn’t until I became a Strength & Conditioning Coach that I experienced the things you mentioned that are missing from the yoga teaching profession- steady full time employment, collaboration with colleagues, mandatory continuing education yearly mentorship’s, definitive professionalism, ect 😂 I still teach (bc I love it) but where I truly feel I can really apply yogic teaching principles & help people make progress is through my S&C coaching . What I strive to be is a Yoga teacher-informed/inspired S&C coach 😊 and to your point, the most important thing we can do as yoga teachers is to hold space for individuals , allow them to show up as are, & help them to breathe better 😊 thank you so much for sharing your thoughts & insights 🙏🙏 you are AMAZING!! ✨✨✨
thanks for listening, and equally, your thoughts are exactly my own experience. You elaborate on the points perfectly! As I say, the whole thing needs a framework of proper support and mentorship- and general professionalism. Then imagine what could be done with yoga! Sorry for the brevity of my reply compared to yours, for I really enjoyed reading your message. cheers.
No worries, Prabu! 👍🙏 and YES! Proper framework & support + mentorships would be a such a positive GAME CHANGER in the Yoga teaching world 😃 maybe it will get there one day 😁
Another refreshingly honest discussion, Adam. Thank you. I too have worried about the pushing of yoga anatomy, all the latin and medical jargon certainly suggests some kind of medical role - and that worries me. Likewise with yoga therapy - even the term seems a little bit of an overreach. And the marketing of all these courses is quite aggressive sometimes, maybe even preying on one's insecurities as a newly qualified yoga teacher. It's not good, is it. I love how you frame the central role of a modern yoga teacher - to hold space. And I think to encourage autonomy, too - offer our students the options and space to develop their own practice and have their own sense of self-achievement from that. Safely, of course, but often that comes from knowing your limits and referring on to other professionals as opposed to skilling up in things beyond your role. Anyway, great episode. Thanks again!
glad you appreciated the discussion. I think all too often one is tempted to over-sell as the purveyor of space - ‘no thing’ is not exactly enticing to most! 😅 And, yes, all the medical jargon I find quite ridiculous if not irrelevant - and the overreach. i actually have a friend who’s a surgeon, and he would claim to know a lot less about the implications of a lot of these movements on the body than many of these modern yoga teachers are convinced they can tell you categorically about ! thanks as always for listening.
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