The link is to a great article by Erica Rodefer on yogajournal; especially for an aspiring yoga teacher to remember what it's like to practice yoga in the very beginning.
5 Things I Wish I Had Known About Yoga As A Beginner Top Five Tuesdays Yoga Blog Yoga Journal
Reminds me how important it is to learn from current students to be a better teacher...some great comments at the end of the article; to summarize what hit me as 'OH YEAH' ...I would like to include these ideas in my repertoire of vocabulary for teaching:
* The idea of asking the students to close their eyes during practice to help them focus on themselves and not what's going on around them
* Eyes on one's own mat
* Explaining that holding the pose helps with muscle memory and the body to go deeper into the pose (it's not meant to 'punish' the students)
* Yoga is a journey, not about perfecting each pose
* I really like the comment. "A good yoga teacher leads the student to the water, but doesn't dunk their head in and force them to drink".
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