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Nearly all yoga teaching is happening online right now. Teaching online creates a lot of unique challenges:

Cueing is the most important skill for yoga teachers to develop, especially if you're teaching online, and this workshop will address all of these needs. With these skills you can build a thriving online yoga community and livelihood.

In the book "The One Thing" they ask the question "What's the One Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?" - in teaching yoga I believe the one thing you can focus on that makes everything significantly better is cueing. A new student coming to your class can know within minutes wether you they would come back or not. They know because of your cues. An experienced student will keep coming back because your cues add insight and depth to their practice. As a teacher, nearly every word you say from the beginning to the end of class is a cue that is either clear or unclear. Clarifying or confusing. So how do we define what a cue is? Have you noticed there are different types of cues? What are some examples of effective vs ineffective cues? I'll share in today's episode.

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Last week I shared 6 of the most common mistakes that new teachers make with their cues. Today I will share what I suggest to do instead. These suggestions will help you create more clarity in your teaching and help your students focus on their practice of embodiment and presence in your classes. With experience and practice you can become great at cueing and be able to say just the right thing at just the right time.

To review last week, the common mistakes I'll follow up on are:

I'll share about these and 6 more common mistakes at the upcoming workshop. I'll also share the 9 types of cues to include in each class. You might already do some of these without knowing it, and may be missing some of these without knowing it. Including all 9 helps you create a more well rounded class that better serves your students. Learn more and enroll now at https://www.quietmind.yoga/cuewithconfidence

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What you say matters. Especailly as a yoga teacher, every word counts. Sometimes just the smallest variation of how you say something can completely change your student’s experience of what you said. A phrase that you feel is helpful could come accross as unclear, confusing or potentially even triggering of past trauma. Sometimes we say too much or too little. With experience and practice we can learn to say just the right thing at just the right time.

Today I’ll share some of the most common mistakes that new teachers make, including:

I’ll share my suggestions of what to do instead on the next episode. For now, take some time to just sit with these topics and notice them in classes you teach and attend. What woudl you do differently and why? This is a great way to practice svadyaya (self study), part of the 8 Limbs of Yoga. Come to your own conclusions, then I’ll share mine on the next episode.

I’ll share in much more detail, including step by step cues and exercises for you to practice and find your way of cueing at the Cue With Confidence workshop: https://www.quietmind.yoga/cuewithconfidence (promo code for you below)

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What is the best yoga mat for you? I have had the same mat for 7 years and it's still going strong! The only reason I bought a new one is for the color, which is one of the 11 factors to consider when buying a yoga mat. What mat is going to be most durable? What have I seen from countless studios, teachers, students and my own experience with dozens of brands of mats? Hopefully this podcast saves you some time and money to invest in a mat that will last you a long time. 

The 11 factors I'll share about are: 

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What makes a YTT stand out? Why would you pick one over another? With 17+ years in wellness I have learned what makes an exceptional Teacher Training and that is why I initially created the Quietmind Yoga Teacher Training in 2019.

Today I share some of my absolute favorite and most essential insights from the whole 200 hour program - from anatomy, to philosophy to ayurveda to trauma informed teaching and everything in between. I cover a lot of ground and share how I weave it into classes and why it is so essential that we as teachers include all of these core competencies in our teachers so we can best serve each student we work with.

I share about my lineage of teachers from Krishnamacharya to the source texts of 1750s BCE to modern exercise science and kinesiology. It all weaves together in the beautiful space of practicing yoga and meditation. I share a quote from a QYTT Grad Patricia about why there can never be “too many yoga teachers” and why there has never been a better time to become a teacher than right now. I also touch on the business of teaching as I've learned from the lead sales training for Tony Robbins and other great teachers outside of the yoga realm.

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One of the most common questions that new teachers have his “am I doing this pose correctly?” This is a great question and really important to know if you're going to teach that pose. What do you look for? What should it feel like in your body? Is there really even just one correct way to do a pose?

There are some important questions to consider when we're talking about a posture. First of all, whose standards are you following? Some lineages of yoga say that you have to do chair pose with your knees together and arms overhead. Other lineages say that you should adapt each pose to the individual student. Which one is correct? Is there a place for both?

The word alignment gets thrown around a lot in the yoga context, but what does it really mean? It's really understand the postures we need to answer these questions and decide on what standards we are following and how we are choosing to define ‘in-alignment’ vs ‘out of alignment.’ Often these definitions are not as clearly defined as you might think.

How can we define alignment? How can we know if a pose is correct or incorrect? Is that even a context that we want to frame our teaching in?

I'll share 5 questions to consider that I teach about in my Quietmind Yoga Teacher Training to help you feel confident practicing and teaching all of the most common poses. Once you understand how to apply this to one pose you start to see how it applies to all poses.

These are things I weave into everything I teach in the Teacher Training, the Quietmind Yoga Podcast and the Quietmind Yoga Membership. If you find this helpful, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or send me a message on Instagram @jeremy.quietmind

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How do you memorize sequences? If you're going to teach a class or going to audition for a studio you might be feeling nervous or doubting yourself. I totally get it! I have experienced this too and I'll share my story of how I doubted myself at an audition and how it reinforced some really important lessons that I'll share with you today. I'll share the 5 things I find most helpful for memorizing sequences / preparing to teach classes. After teaching 5000+ classes I've made the mistake of going against all of these ideas at one time or another and found my classes to be far more effective when I approach them with these 5 things in mind. 

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Today I am sharing something I use in every class I teach. This is essentially the 'secret' that I discovered from attending thousands of classes and refined through teaching thousands of classes myself. In this podcast I'll share:

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Enroll in the Quietmind Yoga Teacher Training at http://www.quietmind.yoga/ytt -- Learn 10 Core Competencies including Anatomy, Philosophy, Asana, Meditation and Teaching Skills such as today's topic: How To Take Requests.

I'll share the number one thing I believe is most important to taking student requests (hint: it is part of the 8 Limbs of Yoga). Then I'll share 9 things to consider when taking requests, exactly what I do with students and what I teach inside the QUietmind Yoga Teacher Training. We'll explore some important things to consider:

• Should you take student requests when teaching yoga? Why or why not? 
• What if they have low back pain, or a knee injury or a shoulder injury and you don't know how to work with it?
• How do you stay within the scope of teaching yoga and what we can do as yoga teachers vs physical therapists or kinesiologists, etc.
• How to always keep learning as a yoga student and teacher.
• How to know if your teaching is effective and helpful for your yoga students.
  

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Today I share all about Sanskrit — the language of yoga. How do we pronounce common words like asana? What are some of the mistakes teachers make with using Sanskrit and what can we do instead? I’ll also share about the deeper spiritual implications of using the Sanskrit language and why it’s like yoga for the tongue and mouth.

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