Yoga Teaching Methodology: Synchronous Learning

Creating Connection in the Online Yoga Classroom
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Part of a teacher’s job in any classroom is to create a community of learning. When I did my yoga teacher training, I was very aware that a large part of my learning happened in the daily milieu of being with my training cohort. It wasn’t just about content.  I learned from the content, for sure, but I also learned about yoga through the sense of community we created and from our connections.  I learned from seeing how my teacher’s responded to other students, how they addressed issues or explored, in real-time, the physical learnings and the questions that arose for other trainees. 

So how do we create a felt sense of what it means to learn yoga together when we are teaching online? How do we foster community among our yoga students if they are not in a shared physical space?

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