Module 5

Seminar in Professional Yoga Teaching

 

Key Focus

  • Teaching the 8 Limbs of Yoga

  • David Garrigues and PNW Ashtanga Yoga Style

  • Adjustments

  • Student Teaching Sessions

  • Adaptations for Students with Disabilities

  • Ethics & Social Justice

  • Social Justice and Yoga

  • Business

    • Marketing

    • Accounting & Finance

    • Local School Sustainability

Sections

  • 5.1 | David Garrigues

  • 5.2 | Sustainable Asana

  • 5.3 | Vinyasa Krama

  • 5.4 | Asana Adjustments

  • 5.5 | Student Teaching

  • 5.6 | Asana Adaptations

  • 5.7 | Ethical Standards

  • 5.8 | Sexual Assault Awareness

  • 5.9 | Social Justice

  • 5.10 | Mohandas Gandhi

  • 5.11 | Exam #5

Module 5 Overview

Required Materials

Suggested Materials

  • Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa

  • A Blue Fire by James Hillman

  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

  • The Essential Rumi by Jalal Al-Adin Rumi and Coleman Barks

  • Brand You by John Purkiss and David Royston-Lee

  • Blue Ocean Strategy

  • Mohandas Ghandi autobiography “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”

Independent Study Opportunities (w/ instructor permission)

 

Module 5 | Lesson Plan

  • 5.1 | David Garrigues

  • 5.2 | Sustainability

  • 5.3 | Vinyasa Krama

  • 5.4 | Asana Adjustments

  • 5.5 | Student Teaching

  • 5.6 | Asana Adaptations

  • 5.7 | Ethical Standards

  • 5.8 | Sexual Assault

  • 5.9 | Social Justice

  • 5.10 | Mohandas Gandhi

  • 5.11 | Exam #5

 

Module 5.1 | David Garrigues

Points of Focus

  • Ashtanga Yoga School History & Lineage

  • Awareness of Limitations of any Lineage

  • Avoiding Dogmatism

  • Focus on Alignment AND Flow

  • A new Kind of Teacher/Student Relationship

 
 
 

Module 5.2 | Sustainability

Points of Focus

  • Teacher-Student Relationship

  • Marketing Yourself

  • Public Reputation w/ Social Media

  • Avoiding Conflict

  • Maintaining Integrity

 
 
 

Module 5.3 | Vinyasa Krama

Points of Focus

  • The Vinyasa Krama of T. Krishnamacharya

  • Viniyoga

  • Sequence Based Group Fitness Public Teaching

  • Private Instruction

 
 
 

Module 5.4 | Adjustments

Points of Focus

  • Physical Adjustments

  • Advanced Adjustments

  • Mysore Class Adjustments

  • Verbal Adjustments

  • Body Language and Non-Verbal Communication

 
 
 

Module 5.5 | Student Teaching

Points of Focus

  • Short, Intermediate, and Long Form Student Teaching Sequences

  • Constructive Feedback Sessions

  • Demographics, Archetypes, and Customer Segment Designs

  • Social Anxiety

 
 
 

Module 5.6 | Adaptations

Points of Focus

  • Adapting Asanas using Props

  • Adapting Sequences

  • Group Class Etiquette for Less Fit Students

  • Covid-19 Protocol

  • Online Teaching

 
 
 

Module 5.7 | Ethical Standards

Points of Focus

  • Professional Ethics for Yoga Teachers

  • Yoga Alliance Standards

  • Avoiding Bias

  • Racism and Bigotry

  • Social Stratification and Equality

 
 

Module 5.8 | Sexual Assault

Points of Focus

  • Yoga Teachers that have Committed Sexual Assault

  • Inquiries into the Cause of Power Abuse

  • Leadership

  • Trauma Awareness

  • Awareness and Methods for Victims

  • Local and National Sexual Assault Resources

 
 

Module 5.9 | Social Justice

Points of Focus

  • Karma Yoga

  • Bhakti Yoga

  • Promoting Equality

  • Local Business Philanthropy

  • LGBTQ+

  • Racism Awareness

 
 

Module 5.10 | Mohandas Gandhi

Points of Focus

  • Civil Disobedience

  • Lifestyle & Personal Ethics

  • Satyagraha

  • Brahmacharya

 
 

Module 5.11 | Exam #5

Exam Topics

  • Business

  • Ethics

  • Social Justice

 

Supplemental Content