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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 week. This month, we're going to explore questions around gender identity and spiritual identity. Gender identity is a person’s deeply felt, internal sense of being male, female, a combination of both, or neither. It is entirely distinct from sexual orientation (who you are attracted to) and one's medical classification of sex given at birth. Spiritual identity is a person’s sense of who they are in relation...
Hi Reader, Yoga’s effects extend far beyond muscles, joints, flexibility, and strength. A single yoga practice can leave us energized or peaceful, focused or expansive, grounded or inspired. The same posture can feel completely different from one day to the next. Why? According to the yoga wisdom tradition, what we experience in practice is shaped not only by the physical body, but also by subtle layers of energy, awareness, emotion, and consciousness that exist beneath the surface. In Yoga’s...
Greetings Reader, I heard they finished the Bridge to Nowhere. And then demolished it. It’s too bad. I kinda liked it. The Bridge to Nowhere was an architectonic faux pax on the Long Island campus of an otherwise respectable institution of higher learning. The idea was to build a raised pedestrian walkway that would connect the Student Union to the Library. Construction began. Then the funding ran out. So construction stopped. As did the bridge, the last portion of it surrealistically hanging...