Teachers Inside Out -- Making Our Understanding Explicit

Type:  Chit (Special Teachings & Insights) / SivaPrinciples / Intense (Adhimatra)

INSTRUCTOR: Ros Bell

Class Description: This is a session for yoga teachers and trainee teachers, exploring how we reach inside to our experience and find ways of making our knowledge of yoga explicit. Our understanding is rooted in our practice and in what we have learned from our lineage of teachers  but how do we pass this on to the people who come to try and learn from us? The teachers I learn most from teach from their own understanding, as well as from a heritage of transmitted knowledge, drawing on personal experience and bringing their individual insight to the subject. BKS Iyengar is a supreme example of this. These teachers are not just speaking the memorised words of their own teachers, they have gone below the surface of the information and tapped into wisdom that is hard to express. And then they have somehow found a way of expressing it. In this session, we will aim to clarify and make explicit more of the tacit knowledge that we have about yoga.

Please Note: Trainee teachers particularly welcome. This session will include action as well as talk, so bring your usual yoga equipment and be prepared for anything!