Teacher Training Workshop Day: Teaching yoga classes to different body types
Ever noticed how some people are just really flexible and other people are super tight. Do you find teaching a class to a mixed audience challenging? Having beginners and advanced yogis in the same class can be a challenge in itself.
In this day-long, teacher training workshop, you’ll learn how to observe and gain a greater awareness of individual body types and their needs.
When: Sunday 9 June 2024
Time: 10am - 4:30pm
At: Soup Studios, Chester
Teaching yoga classes to different body types
You’ll learn how to tailor your approach to individuals to help them identify their needs and priorities in their own bodies; whether that’s recognising imbalances in the body or working with old or current injuries/issues.
This is a great tool to develop and have in your skillset, especially if you’re looking to tailor your teachings to a particular niche audience; or create your own workshop for your students / customers or even to be able to offer 1-2-1s as part of your business offerings.
Please note, this is not an anatomy workshop, but instead a hands-on approach to observing and teaching to different body types to help your students and clients develop themselves and their own yoga journeys, who don’t always have anatomical knowledge.
Overview
Once we start to gain teaching experience, we start recognising that people have different needs and priorities. We simply have different body types. Whether it’s female or male; different ages; or we have old or new injuries / issues that need a little more care and attention.
In this day-long workshop, you’ll learn how to provide helpful modifications to your students and also as individuals to help them feel comfortable in your yoga classes; whilst providing encouraging advice to help them start or progress on their own yoga journey.
This can be a useful workshop if you’re looking to create a yoga offering to a niche audience; or simply have the confidence and knowledge to develop your own workshop for your customers/students or even to deliver regular 1-2-1s, which are all useful revenue streams to add to your business.
In this workshop:
You’ll learn how to observe different body types and gain a greater awareness of how to observe, identify and help your students/clients progress
Learn how to provide guidance and advice to individuals to help them along their own yoga journey
Imparting your observation knowledge to create other revenue streams to your business, like 1-2-1s or creating your own workshops for a niche audience
Schedule overview
9:45am Welcome - meet and greet
10am Observing and understanding different body types
Teaching yoga to people with injuries
Teaching yoga to male and female bodies
Modifying for beginners and advanced
12 noon Break for lunch - plant-based included
1pm Practice: Observation. Identification. Modification and Hands-on adjustments
3pm Putting your new skillset into action / Q&A
With this awareness and observation you’ll gain from this workshop; you can start to help and encourage your students/clients to recognise the positive priorities and needs in their own individual bodies. This allows you to stand out as a more experienced and knowledgeable yoga teacher in your community, allowing you to grow a following of valued, loyal customers and students.
