Teaching Tools Page - Learn to pass on your passion!
Teacher basics - (what I believe every Yoga teacher should see or read)
1. Paul Grilleys DVD Anatomy for Yoga will teach you Comparative Skeletal Restrictions + Limitational Awareness.
2. The Spirit + Practice of Moving into Stillness by Erich Schiffman crucial chapters - The Wind thru the Instrument, Lines of Energy and Playing your Edge will teach you playfulness + perspective.
3. See Baron Baptiste's fundamentals of practicing and the 7 most common mental mistakes from the book Journey into Power.
4. Study and understand Gary Kraftsow's Yoga for Wellness book in which he lays out a wonderful function over form world of Yoga.
That would be a good start.....
Please enjoy these Inspirational Quotes to help you on the path of teaching.
**Please feel free to cut and paste these Inspirational Quotes and share them with your fellow teachers. But please respect the proprietary aspects of the rest of this information. Thanks.
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – John Dana
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Carl W. Buechner
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. –Thomas Carruthers
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. - Kahlil Gibran
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes can be endless. -Mother Teresa
In teaching others we teach ourselves. - Proverb
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken the joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mahatma Gandhi
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucious
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves. - Norman MacEwan
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; regret for the things we did not do are inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Proverb
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. - Sir William Osler
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal their own. - Benjamin Disraeli
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gains are empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life. - Barbara Walters
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NEW - Yoga Basics with Gerry Lishin link to a 13 minute long youtube video - Enjoy
