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Yoga Teachers: What are you learning from your students?

Yoga Teachers: What are you learning from your students?

In our recent episode with Rodney Yee, one of the most thought-provoking subjects he talks about with host Zubin Shroff has to do with his role as a teacher. I’m talking about when Rodney answers Zubin’s question, “What do you learn from your students.”

Are you confusing self with ego?

Are you confusing self with ego?

In our most recent episode of Talking Yoga, our host, Colleen Saidman Yee, asks master teacher Ramanand Patel a question from one of our fans: “What is the most precious thing you learned from Mr. Iyengar.

What would you ask Professor John Campbell about Yoga?

What would you ask Professor John Campbell about Yoga?

Very few of us will ever get to study at the University of Virginia’s Contemplative Sciences Center, founded by master Ashtanga yoga teacher Dr. John Campbell, Ph.D. But in this episode of Talking Yoga, we get the chance to sit in on one of his classes, so to speak. It’s as if the very questions host Beryl Binder Birch asks John were asked by his students, rather than members of the Talking Yoga community. 

From Yoga Teacher…to Yoga Student…to Yoga Teacher…

From Yoga Teacher…to Yoga Student…to Yoga Teacher…

They say that no man is an island, and that is certainly true of yoga teachers.

Every yoga teacher, whether a beginner fresh out of teacher training with a 200 hour certificate or a master with decades of experience, learned from somebody, and will pass on their own wisdom to their own students.

Talking about #TalkingYoga

Talking about #TalkingYoga

Imagine you were at a yoga retreat and you overheard David Swenson reminiscing with Beryl Bender Birch about what it was like when they were both studying with Pattabhi Jois in Maui in 1989…