Comments on: Teaching: Intention and Adjustments http://yoga4liberation.com/2009/02/20/teaching-intention-and-adjustments/ Practicing and teaching Yoga, rock climbing, kick boxing, and loving life in Austin, TX. Mon, 07 May 2012 04:32:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jean-Pierre Parent http://yoga4liberation.com/2009/02/20/teaching-intention-and-adjustments/#comment-512 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:00:44 +0000 http://yoga4liberation.com/?p=135#comment-512 amazing article! just finished a teacher training (hello from rishikesh, btw) and i found you by googling “creating a theme”. will most certainly be back. by the way, you mentioned that there’s more to say about the 2 kinds of assists – i’d love to see an article on that. thanks! hari om!
jp

a teacher here once said: “encourage exploration, not mastery”. liked that, thought you might too.

]]> By: QFDaniel http://yoga4liberation.com/2009/02/20/teaching-intention-and-adjustments/#comment-159 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:12:39 +0000 http://yoga4liberation.com/?p=135#comment-159 Actually,good post. thx

]]> By: yogamattb http://yoga4liberation.com/2009/02/20/teaching-intention-and-adjustments/#comment-85 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:41:57 +0000 http://yoga4liberation.com/?p=135#comment-85 thanks for reading and responding!! have a great day/week and enjoy the teaching and practicing there in South Florida Jessica!

]]> By: Jessica Dickerson http://yoga4liberation.com/2009/02/20/teaching-intention-and-adjustments/#comment-83 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:57:56 +0000 http://yoga4liberation.com/?p=135#comment-83 What an awesome article. I teach both Kundalini and Hatha Yoga in South Florida where we have many teachers who feel that you are not teaching unless you are forcing students to be in perfect alignment in the asanas. I often struggle within myself because I’m much more comfortable giving verbal ques, demonstrating the different levels of the postures, and offering props. I’m a nurse and currently acquiring a masters degree in Oriental Medicine, so I have a lot of anatomy training, but I feel you are absolutely right. “Unless you have x-ray vision for anatomy, you have no idea what is truly going on in their body.”

]]> By: EcoYogini http://yoga4liberation.com/2009/02/20/teaching-intention-and-adjustments/#comment-56 Mon, 04 May 2009 01:41:10 +0000 http://yoga4liberation.com/?p=135#comment-56 wow. this was fantastic. As a student who has been pushed by instructors before, I spent two entire years avoiding classes due to a traumatic yoga experience.

One in particular involved a local (popular) instructor informing me (after I told him that I was uncomfortable doing a particular pose as I was afraid, and trying not to hyperventilate) that “There is no modification for fear, you either do the pose or you don’t”.

Needless to say my practice that day became trying to find the positive in any situation.

Thank you

Blessings :)

]]> By: Marina http://yoga4liberation.com/2009/02/20/teaching-intention-and-adjustments/#comment-49 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:07:09 +0000 http://yoga4liberation.com/?p=135#comment-49 It’s so brilliant, I’m printing it out! Miss observing your classes.

]]> By: mo http://yoga4liberation.com/2009/02/20/teaching-intention-and-adjustments/#comment-40 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:29:22 +0000 http://yoga4liberation.com/?p=135#comment-40 great post matt. very helpful to someone new to yoga (as I am).

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