Tips for Teaching Beginners: Yoga Teaching Tips with Rachel

How can we teach our beginners well and make them excited to come back and do more yoga? In this video, I give you two simple guidelines that will help keep you on track to giving your beginner students an excellent and empowering experience ~
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[@mattylamb658]

Rachel, you have made it accesible and empowering for teachers to teach beginners!😄 Thank you for the tips.

[@RachelScottYoga]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@FromTh1sDayForward]

You are the best. The chair pose explanation gave me a chuckle.

[@RachelScottYoga]

Ha! We can all us good chuckles :) Glad to have you here!

[@butterflycompany5307]

Thank you so very much! I really appreciate your videos a lot. They resonate both with my body and soul and my purpose of being a yoga teacher. To bring more light and love to people by making them feel safe, secure and in harmony with themself! 🧘‍♀🙏🦋

[@RachelScottYoga]

Beautifully said!!! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@m.eegner9788]

Thank you so much for your teachings, you make it so accessible and empowering. I’ve been practicing Ashtanga Yoga for 5 years, and I will be starting my journey as yoga teacher starting my studies and certification, beginning in March, your tips and knowledge and sense of humor has been very inspiring to me. 🙏🏼 thank you for sharing this beautiful journey ❤️ Namaste 🙏🏼

[@RachelScottYoga]

How wonderful!!! Yoga teacher training is a wonderful adventure ~ many good wishes on this next phase of your journey!! 🥰🥰🥰 (and yes, sense of humour is a must! 😁😉)

[@lauinesjunges]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Rachel! I love how fresh and passionate you are. ❤️

[@RachelScottYoga]

Happy to connect with you here Laura!

[@madicooper1291]

Thank you so much for these amazing tips! When I first started teaching, it was so surprising how hard it is to teach beginners! But these tips are so valuable and really break it down in a clear and digestible way. As always, thanks for your incredibly wonderful wisdom!

[@RachelScottYoga]

YAY - Awesome Madi! I'm glad this is useful! 🤗

[@user-dm1fn1nj5o]

Wow! Thank you! I am going to give first yoga class the day after tomorrow, and you are really helpful , so I just want to say thank you! 🙏🏻

[@RachelScottYoga]

Yay!!!! Have an awesome first class, that’s so exciting!! 😄

[@mandyennis]

Excellent tips! Thanks so much your passing on your knowledge 🙏

[@RachelScottYoga]

Happy they’re helpful Mandy! 💛

[@yweston]

Rachel, as always, thank you for your helpful tips! I find that being a welcoming and easy-going instructor does wonder for beginners! If you don't take yourself too seriously, your class participants tend to adopt that same relaxed energy and the whole experience becomes more positive. Also, I liked your Bali story. I've been in yoga classes where instructors made it all about themselves: effortlessly gliding through postures while the rest of us struggled and needed serious assistance but received none. In relation to that, what would your advice be to a teacher who has more of a mixed-level class? How do you divide your attention more fairly among students that need a lot of guidance and support and those that maybe need some minor adjustments so that no one feels left out or picked on? Thank you! ❤

[@RachelScottYoga]

AWESOME question - I think that deserves a good deep dive so I will put it on the list for the next upcoming video!! ~ Great advice about the role of the teachers attitude ~ so important to recognize the role we can play in setting the right kinda tone! 🙏🏻🤗

[@HelloEnglishCork]

Hi love your videos. Watching from Ireland 🇮🇪 you’re a great teacher and very informative. By the way, I want your yoga jumper, where did you buy it? Thanks 🙏 🧘‍♀️

[@RachelScottYoga]

Hi Claire-Louise! I know!! Isn’t it so much fun? I was actually given it my my friend Ava Taylor from YAMA talent. I am not sure if she is selling them, but I also have a fun jumper that says kindness that I got from dharmabums.

[@stretchprincestudios]

Thanks ♥

[@riseupyoga]

Thank you so much for this! I love teaching beginners so the info you provide is super helpful 😊 I have noticed that down dog to forward fold is a difficult transition for some. You mentioned this briefly in the vid, but do you have any suggestions for alternate, more accessible transitions for this?

[@RachelScottYoga]

Yes! I think it's easier to just step back into a pose (like high lunge or t set up for warrior 2) from uttanasana - and then step forward and back with the other foot again for the second side. Also, I like this more than stepping back from tadasana as you have your hands on the floor (or on blocks) in uttanasana and it's less wobbly. Also, people can generally step back further from uttanasana than from tadasana so you get a better length from the stance. This is a really easy switch that still lets you keep a little bit of a flow in there :) If you want to avoid the first part of the sun salutation, you can also have people turn sideways on their mats and take their feet wide (like about to do a wide legged forward fold) then set the foundation for warrior 2 from there; this is also a nice accessible way to get into those standing poses. I like this more for vira 2 than for crescent though, as it's more stable.

[@riseupyoga]

@@RachelScottYoga Bless 🙏 Thanks for the detailed info!

[@DiniShanti]

Do you have YTT300 program?

[@RachelScottYoga]

No not currently, but you can take a la carte courses with me for CE credit 😘