Facilitating Yoga Classes: Teaching Q&A - Including Snoring Students!

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Trains of thought on being in the teacher's seat. Inspired by my recent conversations with yoga teacher trainees, we talk about a few questions around facilitating yoga classes - including whether to gently awake sleeping students in Savasana.

It's an interesting time at the end of teacher training. Lots of great questions come up, but they're really questions that should be asked and answered once you are doing some teaching. And asked again, and again, and again - since we should always be refining!

I noticed a lot of questions coming up about facilitation specifically though, so this week we address a few questions about what to do when...

• You should praise your students, which inspired a whole thread on talking to students in and out of class in general.
• Integrating pranayama and meditation into your teaching (i.e. it's only weird if you make it weird)
• Should you wake up snoring students? I put this one to Instagram in a story, and share my community's responses.
• When should you share inspiring quotations? As well as some considerations on reading selection
• What do you do about students who are late? Once? Often? What shapes how you get to handle this situation?

The intelligent edge yoga podcast was produced by Kathryn Anne Flynn; author of Teach Kind, Clear Yoga: A Guide for Practitioners and Teachers. To learn more about Kathryn, practice online, or find retreats and training opportunities, visit www.kathrynanneflynn.com