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Ten days of yoga
Jan. 6th, 2014 11:10 amThis is a practice post for the Dutch item that will appear on my blog somewhere soon. These past three weeks I did happen to paint a lot of woodwork in our new house, slept in the new house for the first time and had a blast with Mr.R.. What I also did, was spend roughly 30 hours on yoga and the last activity is what I want to write about. And since it was Christmas time, I'd like to call this post 'my ten days of yoga' as a wink to the popular song.
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My initial idea was to see if yoga is a suitable form of movement to learn from as a belly dancer. One of my flisties mentioned that yoga can be an addittion to a belly dance class, but should never be expected to be a standard part of the class because bellly dancers are not yoga teachers. I agree with this because the logic is sound (don't expect A in class B, because A is not B) but I found a second reason why belly dance and yoga are vastly different. I have looked into the learning system for yoga and I think I can say that most belly dancers in the Netherlands have far less practice in teaching skills, anatomy and keeping people safe while moving then yoga teachers. And here's the real hoot: the yoga community comments on the internet that the 200 and 500 hour teacher training are churning out teachers that do not know how to teach.
I wonder how they feel about belly dance teacher that start teaching after a couple of classes?
Yoga makes me feel good and a lot of work has gone into structuring the learning system of yoga. I'd like to prepare myself for the teacher training this summer (three weeks of 6 days + two weekends). In essence, you need to have your own practice for 1-2 years before enrolling in the teacher training. Meaning that you have to make yoga part of your life (6-10 hours per week) for 1-2 years before enrolling.
My plan is to practice Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga three times a week plus one Mysore class every other week (always starting at 6.30. Ugh). For the next six months, I will spend a lot of time with my mat. The tricky bit is that as a teacher, you have to maintain your practice NEXT TO the classes that you teach. Translated to belly dance, it makes sense that your personal practice as a dancer is different from preparing and teaching class. I realized that I have been a bit off my game in the last months with my classes and I want to stay on top, so there is enough work to be done to keep me busy for a while. Structure my own practice, improve my classes, that kind of thing. I might post a yoga update every two weeks or so, as I go along and tag them accordingly.
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My initial idea was to see if yoga is a suitable form of movement to learn from as a belly dancer. One of my flisties mentioned that yoga can be an addittion to a belly dance class, but should never be expected to be a standard part of the class because bellly dancers are not yoga teachers. I agree with this because the logic is sound (don't expect A in class B, because A is not B) but I found a second reason why belly dance and yoga are vastly different. I have looked into the learning system for yoga and I think I can say that most belly dancers in the Netherlands have far less practice in teaching skills, anatomy and keeping people safe while moving then yoga teachers. And here's the real hoot: the yoga community comments on the internet that the 200 and 500 hour teacher training are churning out teachers that do not know how to teach.
I wonder how they feel about belly dance teacher that start teaching after a couple of classes?
Yoga makes me feel good and a lot of work has gone into structuring the learning system of yoga. I'd like to prepare myself for the teacher training this summer (three weeks of 6 days + two weekends). In essence, you need to have your own practice for 1-2 years before enrolling in the teacher training. Meaning that you have to make yoga part of your life (6-10 hours per week) for 1-2 years before enrolling.
My plan is to practice Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga three times a week plus one Mysore class every other week (always starting at 6.30. Ugh). For the next six months, I will spend a lot of time with my mat. The tricky bit is that as a teacher, you have to maintain your practice NEXT TO the classes that you teach. Translated to belly dance, it makes sense that your personal practice as a dancer is different from preparing and teaching class. I realized that I have been a bit off my game in the last months with my classes and I want to stay on top, so there is enough work to be done to keep me busy for a while. Structure my own practice, improve my classes, that kind of thing. I might post a yoga update every two weeks or so, as I go along and tag them accordingly.
