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Greetings Reader - One of the most challenging aspects of teaching yoga is integrating yoga philosophy into an asana class or workshop. Over the many years that I’ve been training yoga teachers, this skill is the one that I’m most often asked to help teachers develop. Many teachers want to offer their students some wisdom from the yoga tradition. And the people who come to classes want to feel a sense of connection when they take a live class, in-person or online. And yet, many teachers don't feel comfortable speaking about yoga philosophy in their classes because
These are all valid concerns. But they’re not insurmountable obstacles. And I can show you how to overcome them in my upcoming “pop-up” workshop for yoga teachers, How to Give a Great Dharma Talk Sunday, March 30 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT Enrollment is just $27! This workshop will be recorded – watch the replay anytime. Participants will earn 1.5 hours of CE credit with Yoga Alliance You’ll learn:
This will be a very interactive workshop and there'll be plenty of time for Q&A. And if you have any questions about the workshop, please send them my way. Wishing you all good fortune, - Hari-k |
If you’re ready to apply yoga philosophy to your own life—or teach it with clarity and feeling—my classes and workshops create space to sharpen your thinking, steady your inner life, and connect your practice to what matters now.
Hi Reader, Do any of these sound like you? → "I want to use Sanskrit in my classes but I'm worried that I won't pronounce it right." → "I'm afraid that I don't know enough about what the words mean to answer questions that my students might have about them." → "I don't know if it's appropriate for me to use Sanskrit in my classes because I'm not Indian and I don't want to offend anyone." → "I'm concerned that using Sanskrit terminology might make yoga sound like a religion or maybe even put...
Greetings Reader, There was barely enough room in the jumbled-up mess of an office to fit the desk, the one adult behind it, and the three pre-teens who were sitting in front of it. The furnace-level setting on the electric radiator’s thermostat approximated the sensation of sitting inside a combustion chamber. The smoke from the Rabbi’s cigar displaced every molecule of oxygen in the room and conspired with the radiator to remove every last drop of moisture from my eyeballs. But enduring the...
Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week. This month, we're going to explore questions around the phenomenon of Identity Fusion. Identity fusion is a psychological construct where an individual’s personal identity merges with a social identity, such as a group, nation, or team, causing them to define themselves as being non-different from the group and think of the group as being non-different from themselves. Fused individuals maintain their...