Yoga Journal #7: Speaking in Public
Raoul’s yoga class was such a workout – quite amazing that two yoga classes with essentially the same postures can be so different in the way that they feel. I like them both – but am wondering where my own personal teaching style will fit into along this scale!
We had to teach one posture in class today – to the entire group – it is WAY more complicated than yoga teachers make it look and there is SO much going on and SO much to think about. I had a relatively simple pose to instruct – utkatasana and still felt like I was so nervous and shaky – which is so unusual for me since I’m not a nervous person at all and have LOVED public speaking my whole life – (volunteered myself for ALL the public speaking/debating/get-up-on-stage-things my entire school career!) but maybe it’s different when you are so desperate to be amazing at something?
It’s also such new things to be instructing and I don’t feel confident enough with the wording and instructing yet – (is it an inhale or an exhale?!) – hopefully it will come with time.
Warr cooked us an amazing mushroom “burger” for dinner – substituting the burger buns for Portobella Mushroomws – so yum and low carb and all!
But then I ate half a kilogram of chocolate after that – so I guess healthy eating will have to start tomorrow.
Yoga London seems to be awesome !! I’m thinking to register to one of their teacher training. I wanted to do the 1 year training as you did because I can’t register to the 1 month training. What could you say to me about your 1 year training ? Is it worth it ? I come from France so I’m afraid to spend lots of money for travelling every months but you seemed to learn a lot during this training. It looks really fun and interesting ! 🙂
Hey Kris – Yoga London is AWESOME! I can highly recommend them! The training I did was for 3 months, not one month – but I know they do have one month options as well as year long options. Another option is an immersion program – where you travel to a specific place and then live and learn there for one month – so that could be a an option to look into! Let me know if you have any other questions!
Thank you for your answer :). It really seems to be super cool and I love the way they seem to make you live your own experience as a yoga teacher. They are not guiding you in a particular way, they give you the knowledge and let you discover how do you wanna manage with it. This is what I felt about it when I received the informations about the school. I have a yoga school close to my city but I admit that I fell in love with Yoga London. Thanks for sharing your experience. Namaste 🙂
Yes! I completely agree! It is one of the reasons why I love vinyasa flow – because there is an element of freedom and creativity in it – which is what Yoga London really helps to draw out. You can bring your own experience to yoga and teach it in a way that feels authentic to you! Good luck on your journey!