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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.
Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next Wednesday. This month we're going to talk about — you guessed it — the U.S. midterm election results and what yoga wisdom has to say about how to ride the blue wave. The social order and political system described in yoga wisdom literature is designed for both material prosperity and spiritual upliftment for every member of society. It's very different from what we're accustomed to in the United States and in...
Greetings from Madrid, Reader, Galavanting around Spain for the past few weeks has been quite an adventure. And, as one would hope, I’ve learned to speak a little Spanish. Okay, very little. As in, just enough to be a polite American tourist who obviously doesn’t speak Spanish. ¡Hola! ¿Vegetariano? La cuenta, por favor. Gracias. Adiós. See? ¡Sí! But the most significant word I learned is tranqui. It’s short for tranquilo, which means calm or peaceful, like the English word “tranquil.” Tranqui...
Greetings from Montserrat, Reader, Imagine what the Temple of Apollo at Delphi would have looked like if it had been designed by Dr. Seuss. That’s a fair description of Parc Güell, a festive 42-acre garden complex draped across the southern slope of Mount Carmel on the northern edge of Barcelona. Designed by Antoni Gaudí, whose Modernist architectural imprint is practically synonymous with the capital of Catalonia, Parc Güell’s undulating architectural forms are rich in symbolism, its native...