54 min
How to Conduct Your First Yoga Consultation Session Yoga One to One with Jeffry Farrell
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- Entrepreneurship
About this episode: Jeff discusses the journey of the yoga student, and he gives practical tips for structuring phone inquiries and initial consultation sessions designed to convert the curious to the committed.
Recorded in the backyard. You’ll hear the dogs.
Links mentioned:
www.yogaonetoone.com
Your Yoga Consultation Cheat Sheet
Yoga Gems by Georg Feuerstein
Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation by Jess Stearn
OVERVIEW/SUMMARY:
We talk about how the Teacher/Student dynamic shapes the student’s journey. Our aim is for the yoga teacher/listener to walk away with tools and insights to establish - with clarity - the arc of that journey, using guiding principles that give the teacher and students a firm foundation that holds true, despite the wildly unpredictable nature of life.
The ultimate destination of a private yoga student’s journey is for them to reach a point where they claim their own personal practice.
Because the yoga practice doesn’t fit into neat little boxes, the yoga teacher benefits from principles and systems that can guide them as they work to serve individuals with greatly varying needs. This allows them to be confident in their teaching, but also in the progress of the student. Not just physically, but in the larger development that the yoga addresses.
Jeffry then goes through the details of how he approaches an inquiry, when someone calls him asking about private yoga sessions. He talks about the importance of listening carefully, and about using that phone call as an opportunity to determine whether you are even the right teacher for that person.
Jeffry uses the inquiry call to establish some baseline understandings, then if appropriate, he schedules a brief, complimentary consultation session.
The consultation session is an opportunity for the yoga teacher to observe and listen to the student. You can get a sense of their needs, and establish a rapport. Jeffry goes into great detail about the process of listening and responding to the student as they are.
The consultation includes a discussion of the practicalities of the practice, such as payment rates and policies, scheduling, etc. It also includes a very simple mat practice, in which the aim is for the teacher and the student to observe micromovements, the alignment of the spine, and subtleties that form the baseline of the practice. Jeffry details a sample practice, which ultimately brings the student to a point of stillness.
This session is also a great opportunity to dispel any myths or misunderstandings about the yoga practice that the student may have come in with, or discuss particular styles of yoga.
Jeff emphasizes the importance of the yoga teacher to stay up-to-date with regard to developments in our understanding of functional anatomy.
We wrap up with a discussion of the concept of a Good Understanding, where Jeff learned it, and how he implements it - and why we don’t use contracts.
About this episode: Jeff discusses the journey of the yoga student, and he gives practical tips for structuring phone inquiries and initial consultation sessions designed to convert the curious to the committed.
Recorded in the backyard. You’ll hear the dogs.
Links mentioned:
www.yogaonetoone.com
Your Yoga Consultation Cheat Sheet
Yoga Gems by Georg Feuerstein
Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation by Jess Stearn
OVERVIEW/SUMMARY:
We talk about how the Teacher/Student dynamic shapes the student’s journey. Our aim is for the yoga teacher/listener to walk away with tools and insights to establish - with clarity - the arc of that journey, using guiding principles that give the teacher and students a firm foundation that holds true, despite the wildly unpredictable nature of life.
The ultimate destination of a private yoga student’s journey is for them to reach a point where they claim their own personal practice.
Because the yoga practice doesn’t fit into neat little boxes, the yoga teacher benefits from principles and systems that can guide them as they work to serve individuals with greatly varying needs. This allows them to be confident in their teaching, but also in the progress of the student. Not just physically, but in the larger development that the yoga addresses.
Jeffry then goes through the details of how he approaches an inquiry, when someone calls him asking about private yoga sessions. He talks about the importance of listening carefully, and about using that phone call as an opportunity to determine whether you are even the right teacher for that person.
Jeffry uses the inquiry call to establish some baseline understandings, then if appropriate, he schedules a brief, complimentary consultation session.
The consultation session is an opportunity for the yoga teacher to observe and listen to the student. You can get a sense of their needs, and establish a rapport. Jeffry goes into great detail about the process of listening and responding to the student as they are.
The consultation includes a discussion of the practicalities of the practice, such as payment rates and policies, scheduling, etc. It also includes a very simple mat practice, in which the aim is for the teacher and the student to observe micromovements, the alignment of the spine, and subtleties that form the baseline of the practice. Jeffry details a sample practice, which ultimately brings the student to a point of stillness.
This session is also a great opportunity to dispel any myths or misunderstandings about the yoga practice that the student may have come in with, or discuss particular styles of yoga.
Jeff emphasizes the importance of the yoga teacher to stay up-to-date with regard to developments in our understanding of functional anatomy.
We wrap up with a discussion of the concept of a Good Understanding, where Jeff learned it, and how he implements it - and why we don’t use contracts.
54 min