The Most Important Thing to Remember Teaching Kids Yoga
“All play means something” — Johan Huizinga
The first principle of teaching yoga to kids is to make it fun. The mood of a children’s yoga class can be akin to that of a game, a storytime session, or improv theater, albeit organized around a logical sequence of yoga asana, including pose-counterpose.
Read MoreHOY Yoga in Schools Pilot Program
“Breathing Room for New Zealand Schools”
The Heart of Yoga in Schools program was launched in New Zealand in July 2021 at a busy multi-cultural inner-city Auckland school with 2000 students on the roll, ranging from age 12 to 18, as well as 200 teaching staff…
Read MoreIn this blog post, Mark shares insights from the past four months of teaching online, helping people establish a home Yoga practice during lockdown.
In this time of our physical isolation from each other, we have no choice but to reach out and teach online. We have no choice but to teach or, a better word, share our Yoga. Paradoxically, Yoga has always been a personal practice that you do in the sanctuary of your own home and in the temple of your heart which is the whole body. This time of extreme difficulty is the time to establish a home Yoga practice, personally and then in the public.
Read MoreIn 1973, I went for my first lesson with Desikachar in Madras (now Chennai). I had been participating in the circus of spiritual India, and Desikachar was just one more place to go, but from the moment I met him I knew I’d found gold. When I arrived, his father, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, was seated on the front porch in a wicker armchair reading the newspaper, dressed in traditional Brahman dhoti and shawl. He looked up for half a second, and greeted me with a short smile and lively eyes.
Read MoreMark Whitwell: So tell me, Nico, how did you as a young woman from Germany transform into a Yogini?
Nico Sarani: My Yoga journey really begun in 2013 when I was studying in New York City at NYU University. At the time I was dealing with a lot of challenges in my personal life, like relationship problems, and the demands of a top American University left me feeling super stressed, leading to episodes of anxiety and panic attacks…
Read MoreIt may seem strange, at this point in history, to suggest taking up a home Yoga practice; a bad joke in the context of the scale of global violence and grief. Yet beneath the commodification of Yoga and our resulting perceptions of it, lies a radical and ancient science of self-restoration and self-determination: a technology of love.
Read MoreIs Yoga a Hoax? If so many people are doing yoga, why aren’t we seeing any tangible flow-on benefits in terms of improved society?
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