Posts Tagged ‘yoga-teachers’

Teaching: It’s Harder Than It Looks, Part 2

September 16th, 2009 kate

To accompany an article about the economic woes of yoga teachers, Slate created a video about all the other less-than-pleasant things that go along with teaching yoga. I think it’s a must-watch. Go ahead. I’ll wait. (Sorry, no way to embed this video here.)

Let’s review:

Yoga teachers get hit on–a lot–with really bad pick up lines? Check.
They find themselves a little too up-close-and-personal with their students? Check.
Students say really inappropriate and uncomfortable things? Oh yeah.
Sometimes teachers don’t really feel up to teaching, but power through it anyway? Sure.

Sometimes a teacher will be still hung over from the night before and showed up without bothering to shower or sleep (much less plan out a class) before they come into the studio

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Teaching: It’s Harder Than It Looks

September 16th, 2009 levis25

Slate magazine’s site Doublex.com recently featured an article about the trials and tribulations of being a yoga teacher. We all know making a living as a teacher isn’t easy, and with teacher training enrollment up during a down economy it sounds like the competition for teaching gigs is going to keep growing. (From a supply and demand standpoint, that also might mean lower pay for the teachers who land those gigs, which would make it harder than ever to pay the bills.) “If you want yoga to pay your bills, you’ve got to leave the deep breathing and asanas at the door and do the capitalist hustle,” writes the article’s author Anna Sale.

My question is for the yoga teachers who read this blog. Do you feel like you’re doing a “capitalist hustle” these days, juggling many different small jobs just to pay the bills?

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/

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Student and Teacher Sitting in a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

June 22nd, 2009 kate

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I’m not sure where it came from, but the idea that yoga teachers should never date yoga students seems to be prevalent in the yoga community. It was taught as ethics in my teacher training course a few years ago, and every once in a while you’ll see a story about a forbidden yoga relationship. Take, for example, this story from SFGate.com.

Laura Camp, an Oakland, Calif. yoga teacher, describes meeting her now husband (a student in her class) like this: “I had rules about not dating students,” she tells SFgate. “It was the first time in 15 years of teaching that I felt an ‘uh-oh.’” Of course, the two are now an adorable married yoga couple.

When I read stories like this, I can’t help but wonder: Why is there such a stigma around yoga teachers and students dating when both parties are consenting adults? If there are special circumstances that make this kind of relationship acceptable, what are they?

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/

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