Friday, September 6, 2013

Teaching Hatha Yoga: The Value of Props

For Yoga teachers the buying price of props as a method of alignment is priceless. Nonetheless it is amazing when a Yoga teacher consists of a negative view of props or maybe the students who use all those. Every once in a while you get to hear contrasting views, but below I have listed a few quotes that no one wants to take credit methods of.

"There are no props during my style, in my organizations, or in my network. My Yoga teacher revealed props are a crutch as there are no reason to make them available to students. "

This is a type of closed minded view, if i ever heard one. Think about the student who are not able to bring his, or the woman's, spine in a downwards line when practicing Triangle posture? One block, put into the correct location, will change the alignment of the entire body.

A wall might also make a big difference to some Yoga enrollees. So why not adjust a person into a better alignment so they can hold the angle longer? This will build strength and also the Yoga student will gravely memorize correct alignment via feeling it.

"Yoga props truly feel fluff. These people are not really practicing Yoga. "

This one comment "takes the cake. " My answer for this person was that she will want a Yoga teacher who shared her deficiency of tolerance. Since Yoga encompasses many facts; who should say just what "real Yoga" is, or is not?

Props are used - by - Yoga teachers from many sorts of Hatha Yoga such in preference to Iyengar Yoga, Tri Yoga exercise, Restorative Yoga, Prenatal Deep breathing, Chair Yoga, and a great deal more Hatha sub-styles. To say the least, the Yoga mat is a type of prop. It was during the past when Yogis did avoid using Yoga mats. Why reject progress being made by essentially the most innovative minds in present Yoga?

One mistake that most Yoga students and Yoga teachers make is thinking of postures as first-time, intermediate, and advanced. Each body is unique and it's exceptional in some ways and less exceptional in others. We should stop focusing on the next "advanced posture" and imagine the alignment of the Breathing posture we are in presently moment.

Proper alignment should never be compromised for the sake of the ego. When you are aware that a blanket, bolster, baseball, strap, block, chair, fencing, or another prop is in order a student's alignment; at a prop is a "no brainer. "

Yoga teachers need to make props available, but also be prepared to improvise. Most Yoga teachers don't have any every prop available with their studio. This is not a problem, and it will educate you to be creative. One of our Bikram yoga teachers shows her students how to use the kitchen counter, the bottom steps of the stair case, and towels as props for Yoga practice individually.

There is no limit to what are used for a Yoga prop. One of our true potential, as Yoga exercise teachers, is only limited by our thinking.

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Paul Jerard is a type of co-owner and the coordinator of Yoga teacher owning at: Aura Wellness Adding, in North Providence, RI. He has been an accredited Master Yoga teacher that is unlike 1995. To receive a free e-Book: "Yoga in Procedure, " and a Free Yoga Newsletter, please stop at: yoga-teacher-training. org/index. html yoga-teacher-training. org/index. html

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