| What you are about to read applies to teaching, in | | | | student must be a self starter. This is a person who |
| general. In fact, we are all teachers, to some degree. | | | | practices Yoga at home, as well as in class. They |
| You teach your friends, co-workers, strangers and | | | | don't depend on their friends to come to class, and |
| family members on a daily basis. | | | | they show up like "clockwork." |
| The example you set teaches someone in some | | | | How can you make your Yoga students become self |
| way. Whether you are a positive role model, or not, | | | | motivators? |
| people, and the world, react to you. Sorry to say, | | | | You must show up to class early, enthused, and |
| you have more responsibility than you thought | | | | energized. Encourage all of your students and |
| possible. | | | | sincerely praise their achievements. The truth is, |
| Do you realize that when you hurt one person, it will | | | | Yoga is like music, you can teach a student the |
| set a chain of events into motion? Even worse is | | | | basics, but to be a master teacher, you want to stir |
| that, most violent acts were stimulated by smaller, | | | | the creativity from within. |
| seemingly unimportant events. | | | | When your students become creators, you can help |
| When you talk to your students, always show | | | | them refine their Yoga practice and watch them |
| mutual respect. Don't take advantage of your | | | | become self motivators. |
| position as a Yoga teacher to temporarily feed your | | | | A truly great teacher will produce teachers, who |
| ego. | | | | surpass him or her; and isn't "passing the torch" what |
| The first thing a Yoga teacher should instill, in his or | | | | it's all about? |
| her students, is self-motivation. The serious Yoga | | | | |