Teaching Hatha Yoga: Assisting, Demonstrating, and Verbally Cueing

Some Yoga instructors feel that one method formethods for Yoga should be integrated.There will
teaching Yoga is better than the rest; but which one isalways be a Yoga student who does not like your
it? If a Yoga teacher does not give a physical assist, ismethod, but you should be able to effectively
that wrong? If a Yoga instructor does notcommunicate with the vast majority of your students.
demonstrate poses, how can students who learnEver since the first Hatha Yoga teacher trained the
visually make progress? What about the Yogafirst Yoga student, there had to be a bonding for the
instructor who makes an assist before verballyrelationship to progress, and for Hatha Yoga to flourish
cueing?There are many methods for teaching Yoga,into the many physical Yoga sub-styles, we see to this
but students either learn by seeing, feeling, hearing, or aday.There are times when, despite all the verbal cueing
combination of senses. With this in mind, there is noskills imaginable, a Yoga teacher must make a physical
right or wrong method, but Yoga teachers should beassist. No matter what is said, some Yoga students
aware that some students may have a dominantwill learn more from a solid assist than by cueing.
sense when it comes to learning. This is why teaching