Shopkeeper Ma said: my own practice in yoga class and their feedback when I was a teacher tell me this truth: the more familiar with the sequence of each class and the more understanding of posture movements, the more students will go deep into the course and give good feedback after class.
This is probably the reason why ah Tang Yoga will be liked by many people.
Repeat, repeat, repeat, and then gain something.
The text shared today also represents this theme, which is also from “yoga teaching is more than Asana – 54 practical theme teaching schemes with insight into yoga philosophy”, published by Beijing Science and Technology Press, Saiqi Landry and Alexandra De chateau.
A good yoga class needs to strike a balance between repetition and change.
The basic structure of weekly yoga class (concentration, warm-up, practice posture, doing supine relaxation and ending) must be consistent, otherwise students will never learn the basic process of yoga practice.
However, the specific content of each link in the course must be changed according to students’ feelings and expectations, so as to improve students’ enthusiasm and participation.
The invariable curriculum cannot make students grow, and the curriculum with too much change lacks stability.
This principle applies not only to the teaching content, but also to the words you use.
If you teach new content in each class, say different words, and don’t connect with the previous learning content, it’s difficult for students to understand the basis of yoga philosophy.
On the other hand, if you repeat the same content too much and emphasize the same point of view, students will naturally lose interest and miss the rich life experience contained in yoga theme and yoga philosophy.
Useful repetition there is a joke like this: “what are the three keys to learning?” “Repeat, repeat, repeat.” You are the only one who has participated in every class you teach.
You are also the only one who has heard every word and sentence you say.
You may feel tired of hearing the same words, but your students don’t think so.
Students like repetition because repetition can make them feel coherent.
Your students not only need to learn through repetition, but also need to listen again and again until they finally master it.
Even if they have mastered the learning content, they are still happy to hear it again, because hearing the same content over and over again will reassure students (just like going back to their favorite resort), and provide students with an opportunity to deepen their connection with it and find subtle differences.
Some specific sentences and prompt words will be repeated many times in each class.
The most important word is “breathing”.
One question sage has to ask is very suitable for athletes, type a personality and most people: “where can you do less?” This sentence can be transformed into many useful forms: “where can you do less and get the same effect?” “Where can you do less to make yourself feel better?” “When will you find yourself doing useless work? Where can you do less?” Alexandra likes to use “let your body breathe” as a reminder at the beginning or end of an exercise.
This is a warm reminder that we should slow down our fast-moving brain, relax our body and breathe slowly.
Alexandra will say this sentence in almost every class, but when doing some challenging poses, she will change it to “can you keep a steady breath at this moment?” Or “even if we stay in this pose for a few more seconds, can you still relax and breathe steadily?” Listen to what you say most often.
You will find that they come from your favorite themes.
If you’re not sure what your most commonly used words and sentences are, record your course.
You’ll soon find yourself repeating valuable statements (such as “breathe”, “do less” or “relax your chin and cheeks”) and transitional hints (such as “Er”, “now, we’re going to…) Or some habits you might want to break.
Monotonous repetition think of flight attendants who monotonously repeat safety demonstrations like robots.
In the repetition over and over again, the flight attendants are bored, and the passengers feel bored, and the information contained in those sentences is lost in the process.
This may cause passengers to miss information about life and death.
The flight attendants of Southwest Airlines are very creative.
They inject a unique personal style and add some amazing or interesting content when they make a safety demonstration.
Their demonstration can often attract the attention of passengers.
Yoga teachers will also monotonously repeat some content.
We will find that we are used to saying the same words in a mechanical tone (such as “take care of your heart with my heart”) both in class and outside class.
Again, if you’re not sure if you have this habit, you can record or film your class, and you’ll soon find yourself repeating meaningless sentences in audio or video.
Study the sentences you use to make your course more interesting and attractive.
This is not to say that if you use words like “take care of your heart with my heart”, they must be stiff or meaningless.
The key is whether you inject emotion and meaning into them and whether these words are really important to you when you say them.
Theme repetition after reading this book, you must have seen enough themes to make new ones available every week throughout the year.
If you can design another 54 new themes, you don’t have to worry about next year! But you really don’t have to introduce students to a new topic every week..
