The Fundamentals of Teaching Yoga to Beginners:

Laying the Foundation for a Safe & Rewarding Yoga Journey  

with andrea peloso

Sunday May 2

12-5pm at our satellite studio

Teaching beginners yoga brings both opportunity and challenge. Guiding a student in laying the foundation for what we hope will be a life long practice places the teacher in a unique and privileged position. It is an incredibly rewarding and delicate aspect of teaching and requires some special skills to keep a beginning student safe, happy, and practicing. 

Some of the knowledge required involves a very applied sense of anatomy and injuries and a keen attention of how to teach students to avoid these for themselves.  Other knowledge is a more intuitive such as understanding
the distinct emotional and physical challenges that various beginners undergo.

Learning to read students in both their physical needs, as well as emotional
confidence is a practice in itself.  In this workshop,we will cover a vast array of themes that include applied anatomy, physical adjustments, yamas and niyamas, and especially teaching in a way that encourages a student to have a life long practice. 

Come prepared to investigate your mission for teaching, communication style, and assumptions about yourself and others. This will also be a time when we will explore the dynamics of adjusting, partner work, and the applied anatomy.

Andrea Peloso has been teaching beginners consistently over the past 7 years.  In addition to her teacher training and on-going trainings, she has studied applied anatomy extensively with internationally renowned teacher Judith Hanson Lasater, and also Ramanand Patel, Ron Ried, Chuck Miller, and Maty Ezraty.