Yoga Lab: a hands-on group experience for current & future Yoga teachers facilitated by Laura Joy DeBolt

This practical application series will include a variety of stations to improve your real-world teaching skills. This will include the following and more!

Single Session: $70
PYA Alumni/Trainee Discount: $60

• Looking at different poses in a variety of bodies and workshopping cues for personalized alignment
• Sequencing Exercises:
  • Scrambles
  • Peak pose sequence writing
  • Flow writing
• Modification Exercises. Take one class and teach it to:
  • a person with a torn rotator cuff
  • a person with a herniated disc
  • a group in a Pitta Imbalanced climate
  • a 6am class
• Group-work writing classes
• Practice with assisting and adjusting (you may observe or participate)
• Practice Teaching challenges (examples):
  • Teach while sitting still
  • Teach to a group with one beginner and all advanced practitioners
  • Teach to a group of all beginners
  • Teach to a mixed group including two pregnant people
  • Your students will be assigned to do something “wrong” for you to catch and fix
  • Practice Mirroring
  • Practice Improv-ing
  • Practice teaching inversions