5 Step Guide to Build Yoga Community in Your Yoga Class
As a yoga teacher, you have various challenges to address that you hadn't even thought of as a yoga student. Developing precision in yoga poses is probably the simplest aspect of becoming a yoga teacher, yet it occupies most of the attention of aspiring yoga teachers. Aspiring yoga teachers come to face more challenging aspects of teaching yoga as they begin to take their own classes.
One of the biggest challenges that you face as a yoga teacher is how to build a yoga community in your class. Taking yoga training at residential retreats in Rishikesh, Bali or other yoga hubs can help you in realizing the importance of community, since you experience it yourself there. However, those who attend hourly classes at a local study may undermine its significance initially but gradually realize the value community building brings.
Let's discuss a few factors that will help you in achieving this feat; irrespective of the place you give lessons, whether at a studio or at home.
Welcome Everyone Warmly
It is in human to feel a little uneasy about leaving one's usual schedule and going to new place and meeting new people, like at a yoga class. You can ensure that your new students feel that they belong in the class from the very first day by inviting them in a friendly manner, as well as asking all the students to follow this ritual.
Call Everyone by Name
To build a community in your class, you first need to ensure that your students know each other's name. Calling everyone by name is the key ingredient in establishing good communication. To build a community, it is important that people know about each other's life off the yoga mat. And this bond of friendship ultimately provides the base for building a yoga community.
Include Extracurricular Activities
People really come to know about each other when they work together or share an adventure. Including extracurricular activities such as outdoor activities brings the sense of teaming up in your students and they learn to work as a community. Besides, adventurous activities also help us in living in the present moment which helps us in building focus in our yoga practice.
Switch Roles
Giving people some responsibilities is the best way to know about them. Ask your students to play yoga teacher and teach each other. In this way, you not only will come to know how much they have learned so far, but also about their teaching skills. You can decide accordingly who requires more attention and who can help you in guiding others. Letting students teach other students is a good way to make them learn about each other as well.
Allow the Community to Grow
To build a strong yoga community, important thing is to let it grow beyond the perimeters of the classroom. Motivate your students to spread the teaching of yoga, professionally or privately, so that your yoga community can get larger. Only by becoming larger can your yoga community become stronger. And this how yoga community has been constantly growing larger and stronger. Give your students the vision that your teachers have given you for the growth of yoga community.
One of the biggest challenges that you face as a yoga teacher is how to build a yoga community in your class. Taking yoga training at residential retreats in Rishikesh, Bali or other yoga hubs can help you in realizing the importance of community, since you experience it yourself there. However, those who attend hourly classes at a local study may undermine its significance initially but gradually realize the value community building brings.
Let's discuss a few factors that will help you in achieving this feat; irrespective of the place you give lessons, whether at a studio or at home.
Welcome Everyone Warmly
It is in human to feel a little uneasy about leaving one's usual schedule and going to new place and meeting new people, like at a yoga class. You can ensure that your new students feel that they belong in the class from the very first day by inviting them in a friendly manner, as well as asking all the students to follow this ritual.
Call Everyone by Name
To build a community in your class, you first need to ensure that your students know each other's name. Calling everyone by name is the key ingredient in establishing good communication. To build a community, it is important that people know about each other's life off the yoga mat. And this bond of friendship ultimately provides the base for building a yoga community.
Include Extracurricular Activities
People really come to know about each other when they work together or share an adventure. Including extracurricular activities such as outdoor activities brings the sense of teaming up in your students and they learn to work as a community. Besides, adventurous activities also help us in living in the present moment which helps us in building focus in our yoga practice.
Switch Roles
Giving people some responsibilities is the best way to know about them. Ask your students to play yoga teacher and teach each other. In this way, you not only will come to know how much they have learned so far, but also about their teaching skills. You can decide accordingly who requires more attention and who can help you in guiding others. Letting students teach other students is a good way to make them learn about each other as well.
Allow the Community to Grow
To build a strong yoga community, important thing is to let it grow beyond the perimeters of the classroom. Motivate your students to spread the teaching of yoga, professionally or privately, so that your yoga community can get larger. Only by becoming larger can your yoga community become stronger. And this how yoga community has been constantly growing larger and stronger. Give your students the vision that your teachers have given you for the growth of yoga community.
