Yoga Teaching

Yoga Teaching

If you’re looking for a new challenge in your Yoga practice then why not try “hot yoga”? Allie Hill, founder of Yogahaven trained under Bikram Choudhury and has developed her own style of hot yoga based loosely around Bikram yoga and she offers courses at her centres in Brighton and Birmingham.

Hot yoga is done in a room heated to 40.5°C with a humidity level of around 40%. The heat in the room helps flexibility of the muscles and joints. Sweating also helps the body to remove toxins, although it’s important to remain hydrated through the sessions which can last up to 90 minutes. During this 90 minutes practitioners work through 26 Hatha Yoga postures (asanas) and breathing exercises (pranayama) which help to develop mental capacity, brain activity, the circulation, heart and lungs.

Hot Yoga gives a fantastic workout as good as session in the gym. It’s hardly surprising that it’s now one of the fastest growing forms of Yoga. Hatha Yoga remains the most popular in the West as a way of mastering the physical body to open a gateway to gaining spiritual perfection. Hot Yoga can compliment your regular regime and provide some variety.

If you’re looking to learn and teach Hot Yoga a variety of courses exist with Yogahavens. As long as you’ve been practising for at least two years, they will have a course for you. Once you have completed a course with Yogahaven, a member of the Yoga Register (YRS) you can use the letters YRT (Yoga Register Teaching) showing your professional credentials.

Yoga training can give you a length of silence enabling you to break free from your hectic day. Given the fact that living in the modern day world requires you to have very energetic lifestyle, you are most likely to end up with a huge amount of stress at the end of the day. Yoga training will reduce your stress so that you are prepared and able to face the new day’s challenges that lie ahead. While you are enjoying the harmony and stillness, yoga training will also give you a vast amount of health benefits. Anyone can start yoga regardless of age as the training is extremely gentle. With yoga, you can go at your own pace and begin with what your individual body and mental ability feels at ease with. It is always best to start with a beginner class and place yourself amongst people who are also beginning to learn the techniques.

Most Yoga teaching courses barely make the grade when it comes to the needs of stressed out individuals. More often than not, most of the attention is focussed on the technical features of yogic breathing, yogic posturing, Yoga teaching ethics, teaching methodology, physiology, anatomy, philosophy, and more, the list is endless. So, how on earth, could a Yoga teacher be prepared for the requirements of the anxiety riddled popularity? It all boils down to the requirements of our individual students and our on-going education pains. For example, if the majority of our students are young, supple, strong individuals, the student’s needs will be aimed towards physical progress. The truth of the matter is, this is ok, as there is a justifiable requirement for it. On the other hand, if most of the students are experiencing the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical effects of too much anxiety and stress, there will be an urge for us to research much more about effectual Yogic stress management solutions for the benefit of our students.