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Student retention is one area that most yoga teachers do not give enough consideration. You have to protect, satisfy, and keep, your active yoga students. In any other business, these are called repeat customers, and your yoga students should be treated like gold, since they are much more than customers.

Your students are loyal and will allow you to remain a yoga teacher for years to come. You will have time to pursue Yogic knowledge, due to the loyalty of your yoga students. Never take your yoga students for granted, abuse them in any way, or adopt an air of superiority. Everyone is good at something, and we have to keep the big picture in perspective: A yoga teacher should be humble at all times.

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Rejuvenated yoga

...yoga is a complete disciplining routine, involving all kinds of physical and meditative exercises. It uses a wide combination of breathing and movements to get the body back into its targeted range. yoga is centered on meditation and the asanas (postures) that are done, are done to allow for better concentration and better meditation abilities.

The first step to performing yoga is to still and calm the mind, hence achieving the strengthening of one's body and mind. If the mind can be stilled, the spiritual power can be felt within. Meditation is the state achieved from intense concentration on a single object until all other thoughts vanish and all that is left is an intense awareness of the object. There is nothing else in mind for some time.

Even though yoga has been around for over 5000 years in India, it was relatively unknown till sometime back. It has gained prominence o...more

Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga Evokes Mental Release

...tem and mind over time.

In practice, Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga involves six specific postures (otherwise known as "asanas") that are always completed in the same order. In the opening asana, there are ten standing "Sun Salutations" or "The Primary Series," which is intended to align and detoxify the body.

The "Intermediate Series" works on the nervous system by opening and clearing internal energy pathways. "The Advanced Series A, B, C and D" helps students achieve maximum flexibility, strength, definition and humility. Teachers emphasize the mastering of each level before moving on, with special focus and attention given to each step of progress.

The ujjayi (meaning "victorious breath") method of exhaling and inhaling, combined with the fluid, dynamic asanas, heats the blood and generates a detoxifyin...more

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Tantra Yoga

...actitioners follow the Dakshinachara path, which is often called, The right-handed path, within western culture. This is a deeply spiritual form of Yoga where deities, such as Shiva, are worshipped. Tantra Yoga is an integration of Bhakti Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Mantra Yoga, and Yantra Yoga. The Tantric who follows the Dakshinachara path is usually a good example of tolerance and lives a constructive life.

The Tantric who follows the Vamachara path, which is sometimes referred to as, The left-handed path, is the Tantra Yoga practitioner who participates in sex rituals, drinks alcohol, consumes other intoxicants, eats meat, and sacrifices animals.

Keep in mind, this is the minority, but most of the contemporary Tantra Yogis and Yoginis, who follow the Vamachara path, are practicing a form of Ne...more

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