Improve Your Teaching While You Sleep: Yoga Teacher Podcasts
Time
15 minutes
Difficulty
1/10
Overview
Listening to yoga teachers’ teaching is the quickest and easiest way to improve your own teaching.
It’s far better than looking at YouTube videos.
Why?
Well, because yoga teachers who teach via podcast have to give precise, clear instructions because they can’t get away with only giving demonstrations of the poses.
Step 1
Listen To Podcast
Click one of the links below and listen to one of the yoga podcasts.
If you don’t have time to follow along with the yoga podcast on your mat, listen to them in bed. You can also listen to while you’re doing something else (e.g. cooking, driving to work). Just listen. Absorb the instructions. Absorb the yoga teacher’s energy.
101 Online Audio Yoga Classes by ElsiesYoga
50 Online Audio Core Power Yoga Classes by CorePower Yoga
16 Online Audio Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga Classes with Dave Farmars
23 Online Yoga For All Levels Video Classes with Les Leventhal
From The Heart: Conversations with Yoga Girl
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler
Ram Dass Here And Now (I snuck this one in. You’ll love Ram Dass).
Step 2
Listening & Note-taking
Click one of the podcast links (in step 1), and listen with a notepad and pen in hand. Pause when you come to a bit you like, write a note about it, and continue pausing and taking notes throughout the podcast.
I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by what you’ve taken note of.
Step 3
Unleash Your Imagination
Now it’s time to close your eyes and imagine yourself in your yoga class.
Open your notebook.
Pick something you made a note about (e.g. how she introduced the theme of the class), and imagine yourself doing it in front of your class.
