Tips For A Good Yoga Workshop

When you start out as a new yoga teacher, there are a lot of moving parts with which you’re unfamiliar. The sequence, how to describe each pose, assisting students, managing the environment and feeling the confidence to speak from your heart are all things you’re navigating.

Steps to follow for making your Yoga Workshop a success:

      1)  Determine which is best whether it is conducting the workshop alone or with some other teacher. If the other person is good at rehabilitation it is an added advantage to you both since both can start a workshop together.

        2)Check out for good locations. If you plan to conduct the workshop in some garden check out whether it is OK to do so without disturbing the public there. If you plan to rent a studio   check out which is the minimum budget   available. This can help you in planning your work well.

       3)Advertise your workshop well. Plan out for good attractive flyers or postcards. Post online with a good website. Ask your students to help you out by handing over some postcards to them to distribute. Word can be passed from mouth too.

       4)Obtain a proper insurance coverage for your workshop. Should not run helter-skelter at the last minute. This helps you and your students to feel more secure.

        5)Draft an outline for the workshop. Include the timeline for each section. If you are presenting with someone else, discuss how much time is needed for each subject of your workshop. Do not expect to start on time. Allow for about 10 minutes at the start for late-comers to arrive and other delays.

        6)Remember to offer free or donation-based events every year. Not everyone is able to attend workshops and also pay for classes and private lessons. Offering even three seasonal free classes each year at the beach or at the park is a way to thank your regular students and meet new ones.

        7)Perform a puja (ceremony) in the room if you can. You do not have to light candles, incense or sage. This can be a good way to start especially if elder people are invited.

         Taking the time to develop a teaching plan will help you in your growth and keep your professional development on track and can make your yoga workshop a grand success.

Yoga In Brief

                     Yoga is a Hindu spiritual discipline which includes the relaxation of the mind and body. It is an age old practice which is being followed centuries back by the religious practitioners. In Sanskrit Yoga means ‘union’ i.e. the union of the mind and body. Yoga is the real way to experience the spirituality of the mind, body and spirit. In Yoga the mind, body and spirit are fused to be one. It helps you to maintain a distance between various day to day tensions, struggles, sickness, etc.  It helps you to relax after a tiresome day.

Yoga, as we all know, is aimed to unite the mind, the body, and the spirit. Yoga if done in the right way can find harmony and heal itself.

What does one need while going for Yoga??

               A person just needs a Yoga mat, a bottle of water, a clean towel, a comfortable fitting dress and a relaxed mind. Yoga mats should be of a good quality otherwise one will slip and break his bones. Good mats will give you better grip.

When a person has completed all the levels of Yoga he can start a Yoga Workshop. He can set up a small room somewhere in his backyard or in the garden or anywhere where he feels it is comfortable for the instructor i.e. him and the yogis to relax without any disturbance. Yoga workshops can be conducted for different age groups like teens or the youth, pregnant ladies, elderly couples, etc. there can be separate Yoga Workshop for ladies and gents or at times there are combined as one.

Yoga Retreats are also held worldwide where one can attend Yoga classes on a mass scale. This is mainly done to attract people of all age groups to the importance of Yoga. Stress management is the main topic when one conducts a Yoga Retreat.

People who conduct Yoga for the welfare of mankind is called sevaks and their work is called Seva i.e. serving. Seva Yoga is a blessing in disguise. The joy and happiness you get by offering your love and affection to another human being becomes a blessing for you.