breaking in a new teacher
By savypat
@savypat (20216)
United States
April 4, 2013 2:35pm CST
I take a yoga class several times each week, we are all people in our fifties or more, adults in other words. We are also many different levels of skill. Anytime we get a new teacher, it takes several classes to teach them how to be our instructor. The instructors who stick with us soon come to love our class, we all try hard and keep our sense of humor over our limitations. Of course some complain and some drop in or out but all in all we are there to improve our lives through yoga and we need some one who has the goal of helping us. As an adult , do you take classes like this?
4 responses
@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
4 Apr 13
Hi savypat, I would love to take such a yoga class but sadly there is nothing available where I live. I'm sure I wouldn't be very good at it, but if there was just the chance to make a beginning and to practice a learn a little I'm sure it would help. Blessings.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
5 Apr 13
The Yoga class at Alamo Palms RV Park happens each morning, Monday to Friday at 7:30, November through March, and everyone is over 55. Our oldest participant was 91,and very active for her age when she stopped wintering at the Park in 2009. The free 45 minute yoga sessions on VCR are quite popular, especially with those who have heart, or other health problems. Of course, we never consider limitations, even when the Yogi needs help to get up. (there is a chair-yoga class at the Park for those who can't get down.) We also have drop-ins and drop-outs, and the occasional Great Grandchild as young as 7. A fun-time is had by all!
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@francesca5 (1344)
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6 Apr 13
That's funny, as teaching adults is so different to teaching children. I don't go to a yoga class, but I have joined a few classes for adults, and you are right that the teacher has to learn how to fit in with the class, as you can't treat adults like you would children, so its a different set of skills.
The last class I went to was a pottery one, but now I have slightly changed roles and am sort of running a song and guitar group, but I am not the teacher, just the convenor, and the whole idea is that it is about us teaching ourselves how to perform songs, and its quite good fun.
