Teaching movement is so much more than guiding people into shapes - it is a curious and intentional dance between facilitator and student/s. In this immersion for movement teachers, we’ll break down how to deepen and refine our skills as space holders, and explore how to create meaningful & authentic practices where your students feel seen and held.
PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING
Non-judgement
Intention
Curiosity
Reciprocity
Flow
WHAT WILL WE COVER?
THEMING & SEQUENCING
In initial trainings, we are often taught to sequence every posture or exercise, or work with a peak shape, but this often is received as clunky, rigid and misses our opportunity to actually read and respond to what is arising in the room. Does this mean we wing it without a plan? Absolutely not. Tayler will share her blueprint method for curating classes that offer a sense of intention, continuity & flow. We will explore shifting from a peak pose to an energetic peak. This map can be used also for longer offerings like workshops and retreats as well.
CUEING
Language is one of our most powerful and beautiful tools as teachers - how do we cue in a way that invites greater inclusion, interoception, somatic understanding, curiosity and play?
BODY READING
Teaching movement is truly a dance between facilitator and student. If we are trying to remember a class plan too hard, we often forget to truly see the bodies moving in front of us. Body language and holding patterns tells us SO much as teachers, and this information can really help us serve our students. When we are able to really read bodies, our students will feel more seen and hopefully, held. We will explore experiential anatomy, the principle of yielding in movement and how to train your eye to see the subtleties of the moving, breathing body. Here it is important we ‘learn to rules before we break them’ (!)
'FROM THE HEAD TO THE HEART'
Nurturing our own practice and experience. We’ll explore curating an offering from our own experience, and of course we will practice.
WHO IS THIS IMMERSION FOR?
All movement teachers who are craving some new inspiration for their offerings and looking to deepen their teaching skills. These principles can be applied of course to yoga, but also to anyone looking to offer a more somatic experience in their classes (for example, most of what I share now is pilates, but I apply these principles to all my classes).