The Move with Love Podcast Brea Johnson

What? Don’t be good at teaching, what kind of advice is that? Sounds wild, but it’s true. The secret to being a good yoga teacher is to not be good at teaching. Take a listen to find out what that actually means!

Is labeling your classes beginner or advanced doing more harm than good? Listen as we explore this important question!

Are you a good teacher if you can’t do all the poses? Absolutely

All those things you doubt yourself about? Feeling like an imposter or not a good enough teacher? It’s not you, it’s the yoga industry!

Many people experience chronic pain and illness and yoga can be a supportive pain management tool. As a yoga teacher, there will be people who come to your classes with chronic pain or illness and but do you know what to do? How can you offer a practice that acknowledges their needs in a loving and supportive way?
In this episode, you'll gain tools and insights for how to integrate accessible practices into your classes to support all bodies. 
I talk with yoga teacher, Astrid van Rens who teaches those with chronic pain and has a lived experience of chronic pain and fatigue. From her personal and professional experiences, she has a wealth of knowledge to share with yoga teacher and those with chronic pain to build supportive yoga practices into your classes.
 
About Astrid van Rens:
Astrid lives in the Netherlands and has been teaching yoga for over a decade. She teaches and practices yoga from a lived experience of chronic pain and fatigue.
In the first years of teaching she began to experience more and more physical symptoms and fatigue. She even wondered if teaching would still be possible. She also saw that there were many people who stopped taking classes because it didn't match their physical abilities. Over the years she found ways and tools to adapt yoga practices to her personal needs and the needs of people who came to her classes. 
 
Since 2013 Astrid has been offering classes to people living with illness, chronic pain and fatigue. In 2016 she started one of the first online yoga schools in Holland with online (live) classes. Offering mindful movement in a sustainable, accessible and gentle way.
Follow Astrid on Instagram: @deonlineyogaschool
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Many people experience chronic pain and illness and yoga can be supportive and a pain management tool. As a yoga teacher, there will be people who come to your classes with chronic pain or illness and but do you know what to do? How can you offer a practice that acknowledges their needs in a loving and supportive way?
In this episode, you'll gain tools and insights for how to integrate accessible practices into your classes to support all bodies. 
I talk with yoga teacher, Astrid van Rens who teaches those with chronic pain and has a lived experience of chronic pain and fatigue. From her personal and professional experiences, she has a wealth of knowledge to share with yoga teacher and those with chronic pain to build supportive yoga practices into your classes.
 
About Astrid van Rens:
Astrid lives in the Netherlands and has been teaching yoga for over a decade. She teaches and practices yoga from a lived experience of chronic pain and fatigue.
In the first years of teaching she began to experience more and more physical symptoms and fatigue. She even wondered if teaching would still be possible. She also saw that there were many people who stopped taking classes because it didn't match their physical abilities. Over the years she found ways and tools to adapt yoga practices to her personal needs and the needs of people who came to her classes. 
 
Since 2013 Astrid has been offering classes to people living with illness, chronic pain and fatigue. In 2016 she started one of the first online yoga schools in Holland with online (live) classes. Offering mindful movement in a sustainable, accessible and gentle way.
Follow Astrid on Instagram: @deonlineyogaschool
Website
 
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You might think that teaching accessible yoga means teaching people in chairs or those with injuries. But when you teach with the intention to create classes that everyone can feel good in then you're teaching accessible yoga.
And yet, the cues you use, if you use props or not, and the language in your classes might not actually work for everyone that attends. So what really is "accessible" yoga and how do we incorporate that mindset into our classes?
In this powerful and insightful episode, Kristine Sofiedal shares her experience as a yoga teacher and practitioner in a larger body. Her story and journey will inspire you deeply and help you see how you teach yoga in a whole new light. A must listen!
About Kristine Sofiedal
 
Most of my life I have had a strained relationship with my body, until I found yoga. Yoga was mygateway into body acceptance, body positivity and self-love. It was where I found others that looked likeme, that moved with joy and looked confident in their bodies. It sparked something in me, and I foundmyself becoming more and more accepting of myself and my body. I started to move in ways that feltgood to me, making the poses fit me and my body where I was and not feeling I had to hide. But thepeople I found so inspiring were only available on social media. I was the only one that looked like me inyoga classes and I had to research and find my own way to make a lot of poses more accessible to me.
As a teacher, I want others to see bodies like theirs and I want to teach other yoga teachers howto make poses more accessible to more bodies. EveryBODY can do yoga, but not everyBODY can doall yoga. In Formfull Yoga classes, workshops and trainings (coming in 2022) props play a leading role. They are NOT used because we can't do something but used to create better access to our bodies and to create more space for moving with loving-kindness within our bodies.
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