eastkygal~ I've been teaching yoga for athletes for a few years now, and just finished my pre/post-natal cert. last month. I've been asked to teach a class with a friend, but for some reason it makes me nervous to teach it. I think it's all the modifying and prop use. Maybe slowing down my mindset and realizing that it's okay to teach a slower paced class?
funkymamajoy~ a great book for teaching sequences and games within yoga is "Create a Yoga Practice for Kids" by Yael and matthew Calhoun. I used it when I taught preschool yoga to 2-5 year olds. mostly we played games like musical mats, only when the music stopped you had to be in a pose, or when the music plays you have to bounce around as a yoga animal like if they were a downdog they had to walk around in the pose, etc. it's pretty fun. Or make up sequences based on bugs or things you find outside, poses that are shapes, etc.
I'm about 4-5 wks pg and feel weird in some poses already. I have a hard time w/ locust, bow and wheel already. I thought it would be awhile before my body rejected some poses , but I already have a hard lump that isn't going any where
We haven't told anyone about the pregnancy yet, I thought I miscarried the other day, and I just feel a bit better waiting until I see the midwife on Monday before we tell others. I am wondering how it will affect my teaching once I get to the point that alot of poses are out of my reach? I only teach 4 classes a week, but 3 of those are power vinyasa and yoga for athletes, so the classes are mostly intermediate and my students complain when I walk around and assist because they can't watch me in the pose. Thank goodness it's to each her own
I am trying to remind myself lately when I am getting late to take a class, or get upset with traffic, line at the studio, etc. that I don't just practice yoga on the mat, but on the way to the mat as well.
I have such a hard time getting going when I'm cold.
