Teaching Yin Yoga is Hard (and Easy)

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Why Teaching Yin Yoga Can Be Both Hard and Easy

Yin Yoga involves a unique set of challenges. It’s not just about showing up and guiding your students through poses. It’s about holding space, managing the energy in the room, and understanding the mental and emotional landscapes your students are navigating.

Unlike the more active forms of Yoga, Yin requires less physical energy from the teacher, which can be a relief.  It allows for a more introspective teaching experience but also demands a new level of addressing students’ internal experiences.

The Freedom in Letting Go of Alignment

One of the most freeing aspects of teaching Yin is the break from strict alignment cues common in more vigorous Yoga styles. Instead of enforcing a rigid structure, we focus on how the pose feels in each individual body. This functional approach aligns perfectly with my training with Paul Grilly, where we learn that it’s less about the aesthetic of the pose and more about each person’s unique experience within the shape.

Navigating the Emotional Terrain

The quieter, slower pace of Yin Yoga doesn’t mean it’s devoid of challenges. It opens up a different realm where students are encouraged to encounter their mental and emotional states head-on. This can be daunting, both for the students and for us as teachers. It’s important to be present, offer guidance, and sometimes, just hold space for whatever arises.

The Reward

Seeing Transformation Despite—or perhaps because of—these challenges, teaching Yin Yoga offers countless rewards. Witnessing the tangible transformation in students from stressed to serene, watching them embrace stillness and silence, is an incredibly moving experience. It’s in these moments that I realize the profound impact of Yin Yoga, both for the students and for me as a teacher.

Continuing Education and Community

For those navigating the journey of teaching Yin Yoga, I can’t stress enough the importance of continuing education. Whether it’s my own 100-hour therapeutic Yin training or another comprehensive program, enhancing your skills will empower you to address the unique challenges Yin presents. If you’re passionate about deepening your practice and your teaching, join the waitlist for my upcoming trainings. You’ll receive insights, podcast episodes, and tips to enrich your journey. Meanwhile, continue to listen, learn, and love the practice that brings us together.

Thanks for joining me in this exploration.

Let me know in the comments what is your biggest Joy and Challenge of teaching Yin?

00:00 Introduction to the Yin Yoga Podcast
01:32 Engaging with the Podcast Community
03:08 Listener Feedback and Gratitude
06:38 Teaching Yin Yoga: Challenges and Insights
09:52 The Importance of Comprehensive Yin Yoga Training
19:14 Benefits of Teaching Yin Yoga
27:15 The Unique Vibe of Yin Yoga
28:07 Emotional Rewards of Teaching Yin
29:32 Transformative Student Experiences
31:56 The Deeper Aspects of Yin Practice
34:57 Business Benefits of Teaching Yin
37:23 Transitioning from Active to Yin Yoga
38:13 Challenges in Teaching Yin Yoga
45:19 Holding Space and Teacher Rituals
56:08 Final Thoughts and Resources

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hi, Yenise, and welcome to a yin Yoga. Podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you are brand new around here, welcome, welcome.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you are a familiar welcome back

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Nyk Danu Yoga: today we are going to talk about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: how yin teaching yin yoga is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: hard

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but easy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Both can be true.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So stay tuned for more on that in just a moment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But before I get into that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you are new around here again, welcome. If you are familiar.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: welcome. Again, if you’ve been listening to the podcast and you’ve been finding these episodes helpful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If they’ve been helping you in your teaching.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I would be so grateful if you would do a few of these things.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Number one.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Pause this and take a moment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you’re on Youtube watching the video.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you could do the same would be super grateful. Make sure that you have subscribed.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Take a moment to like the video

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that really helps the podcast grow. It helps more people find it so, you know, you probably found it somehow, and other Yoga teachers will find it based on some of those things.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So for those of you who’ve been thanking me and letting me know how much the podcast has helped you

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Nyk Danu Yoga: endlessly grateful for you. Thank you for your feedback.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I am a solo show at this point. So I decide the topics.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so getting these little messages from you. These little comments really does let me know that I’m not wasting my time, that these things are actually truly helpful to you as teachers.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So thank you. Thank you endlessly grateful for all of you that have given me some feedback. Whether that’s a podcast, review, a direct message under Youtube videos under my on my blog, etc, etc.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m going to share one of those with you right now. This was DM. To me on Instagram. I’m just going to use the 1st name just because it was a direct message.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And this is from Sonya.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hi, Sonya! If you’re listening.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hi, Nick, I hope you are well. I’m Sonia from Spain, but living in London

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just a quick note to say, Thank you in all caps

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for your podcast I’m halfway through listening to them. I’m making notes, and I absolutely love it. I wish you could be closer, or coming to London at some point

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you, Sonya.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I don’t have any plans to come to London, but it’s not without the realm of possibility.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Of course we’d have to line up schedules and all that, but, you know, feel free to drop me a message, or, if you live somewhere other than London, and you’ve been like

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So please feel free.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay? So that’s that. One more reminder before we dive into today’s topic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I have the soul of a mermaid, but the mouth of a sailor.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you have small people around. Take a moment to grab some headphones.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I know this sounds like a dichotomy. But welcome to Yin Yang theory. Welcome to Yin Yoga! The answer often is, well, it depends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so they think, oh, I’ll go to a yin class that’ll be really gentle, or that’ll be really easy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re not. They’re not usually prepared for that. They’re also not usually prepared for the fact that we kind of suckered them into a small meditation practice in each pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So would we say that a yin yoga practice is gentle or easy. Well, that depends how you define it

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it could be breaking a sweat internally, it’s possible.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the reason I wanted to touch on the students experience 1st is because it’s an analogy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for when you are a teacher

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hatha trained teacher, for example, to kind of groove into yin than it is. Say, for example, a Vinyasa teacher. And that’s just because their their Vinyasa is more extreme, right? So there’s more things that kind of need to be adapted.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I know from the feedback that I get on this podcast that a lot of you did not feel ready? Because you get so much out of listening to this podcast that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But there isn’t a lot of the like. By the way, here’s how you would teach this.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You know it’s always interesting to me that we all, whether it’s good or bad, and I would argue bad. But whether either way the industry standard for your 1st teacher training is often 200 h, which I would argue, in my opinion, is nowhere near enough, but that’s a rant for another time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you come up against things, and you’re like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so some of this is just time and experience, but also some of it is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m going to give you some tips on that coming up. Some of the differences, things like that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But since we’re talking about trainings, I’m just going to throw in a shameless plug.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: My dear friends, at the time of listening to this. My, what used to be 60 plus hour therapeutic yin training is now

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right? So it’s like 78, I think, or something like that with me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Don’t quote me somewhere in that range, and then you have assignments that make up that extra amount so that it’s all said and told. It’s a hundred hours now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The very 1st round of it was a 50 h, and I knew I needed to do at least a 60. And then the 60 happened, and then I started adding on more at home, learning with the 60, because I felt like there was too many holes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so, yeah, we’re almost at 80

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Nyk Danu Yoga: depending on. When you’re listening to this, you may have been hearing me say in past episodes, my 60 plus hour. Well, guess what we just up the ante.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: hundreds of people. This is not one of those courses that is like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, hundreds of you join a zoom call. I can’t see any of you. I’m just standing up there on a whiteboard lecturing, and then we have some QA. Calls. That is Nanny. Nay, nay, I say, that is not how I roll.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve been teaching long before I started teaching Yoga. And so I have some

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Nyk Danu Yoga: skills that I know that teaching is not the same as presenting.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So when I teach you, I want to be able to see your face.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I want to see whether or not what I’m saying has landed. I want to see that spark in your eye where you’re like I got it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I want to be there for the hard questions and the paradigm shifts that come up when you’re partway through training. And you’re like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Oh, man, I’ve been doing this thing this whole time, and now I’m like rethinking my teaching, and so I want to be there with you through all of that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And because of that, of course, I can only do so many people.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So there’s small groups.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And even though they’re small groups.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The amount of curiosity and questions and conversations that we have in these trainings are so rich and so juicy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I just decided, this training needs to be longer. And so it is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’ve been resonating with these episodes. You might want to check out the page in the show notes that says, Get on the waitlist.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: on that page. It’s going to show you exactly what we learn in the program. There’s a big bullet pointed list there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Up in my photo. There’s a button we can push.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or all the way at the bottom, and you can enter your name and email. Click the button. You’re going to get a little gift from me when you do sign up, and then you will be officially on the wait list.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’ll be on the wait list until you take yourself off. So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: while you’re on the wait list. You’re going to get goodies from me. You’re going to get these podcast episodes. You’re going to get little videos. I’m going to share little

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The last thing to mention when you’re on the wait list is at least at the time of this recording.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m still doing the 1st 5 people that sign up have access to a discount code.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Alright! So that’s my shameless plug for my training. But whether my training is a good fit for you or someone else’s is, you might be in somewhere in the world where you couldn’t do my training, because.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now I will say, too, that dear listener, a lot of the things I’m going to mention today are going to be point form.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Well, one of the things that I noticed right away when I started getting more yin classes and less movement based classes. I still do teach movement by the way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, I do still demonstrate my poses. This is a question I often see in groups. Do you do the practice with them, or do you, Demo?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We’re going to talk about that in a moment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You are always going to have a percentage of your students who are not going to be getting it, and they’re going to be looking at the person next to them because they’re lost and confused. And it’s because you are only speaking to, literally speaking, to one learning style, and that’s audio.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’re not helping the visual or the kinesthetic learners. So there’s my little gentle smackdown for that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: No, no, no!

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but there will always be people who are visual so visually dominant that they will not be able to replicate what it is that you’re doing unless they see it. You’ll know those people, because they’ll always be lifting their head, looking confused, or they’ll be looking at their neighbor, or they’ll literally sit on their mat while you tell them how to get into the pose waiting for you to show them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so I’m not going to do the practice with my students, but I may show them right. I may show poses.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I don’t have to give them a bunch of alignment cues

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We don’t use air quotes alignment rules, and so I don’t have to say any of that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Offer a few versions that might work for different bodies and then watch and pay attention in case none of the versions that I’ve mentioned are working for their body, so I can give them something else to do, or I can give them another version, or I can give them a prop option. Right? I’m paying attention, watching how they’re going in and seeing how everybody’s doing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But that’s really nice. The other thing that is really nice for me, and this is a little bit less

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that is, it’s actually palpable like you can feel it in the room. There’s just. And anyone who’s taught a really good yin class, or been to a really good yin class knows what I mean.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that honestly, as a teacher,

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Nyk Danu Yoga: sometimes when I’m sitting at the front of the room, and I’m holding space, and I just kind of glance around the room to see if anybody needs anything, and I

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to see how relaxed people are, and how

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Nyk Danu Yoga: grounded they are, and how calm they are! I actually get moved to tears. Now I am a little leaky. I’m a sensitive being.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That didn’t really happen

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with my Hatha classes, maybe a little bit in Shavasa, and especially if somebody in the room started to tear up because I like, I said, I’m

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But it didn’t happen from me, just witnessing the experience of the yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that happens all the time for me

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a deep, a deep well of gratitude

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and peace that comes up

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s very rewarding as a teacher

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to really see right in front of you tangibly

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Couple of weeks ago

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I came in.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and there was someone there who was very vata for those of you who know Arabic, or very fire for those of you who speak. Tcm.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: she was super like her energy was super fanatic, like almost that kind of anxious energy. You know where it’s like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: she’s obviously never been to a yin practice before. You know. She was immediately popping up into headstands before class, and then she had this

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Nyk Danu Yoga: stick with her, and she was like, you know, tapping her body, but like not gently, like, you know, ferociously so. She was doing all the things that would stimulate her energy

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You know, she’s already in this like over energized, phonetic kind of state. And then she’s doing things to exaggerate that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: she doesn’t know, have an alternative. That could be. It could be that she doesn’t have a plan, B, for when she feels that way, or it could be that that phonetic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, fiery state for her

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that that’s what her go to, even if it’s not serving her at all, which it was not.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I got to witness her. Go from that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to moving into these yin poses, and she was new to Yin

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and have trouble holding and all the things that you would expect when someone comes in in that energetic state.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I got to watch her move from. I’m just gonna crank out a couple headstands before class

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to. I am yawning through the whole last 3 or 4 poses, which, if you don’t know yawning, is a very good sign. That’s a parasympathetic nervous system response to relaxation response. So she moved from this phonetic hyper energy to this calm, yawning state

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and little size.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it was a very beautiful thing to witness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And this isn’t something I really witnessed before, when I did more active classes, of course I saw people come in busy and stressed, and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and leave more happy and more content and grateful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that is super rewarding to me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s also rewarding to introduce people to their minds

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and their mental, emotional realm.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and how to work with that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: like, we are a society of people that are distracted, that do not drop in that do not pay attention, and that shows up in our world big time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so for me

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to be able to guide people into a practice that is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: more about the deeper aspects of practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: less about the physical and the flash. Of course, they’re making shapes with their body. And they’re feeling sensations. Yes, of course we know this.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but really, in my opinion.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a yin practice is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: secret. Superpowers go far beyond the physical fascia

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that we’re working with, and the myofascia and the deep fascia and all that. It’s all great love it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but it’s giving them a deeper experience of themselves.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of their minds, of their emotions, of their nervous system.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s what really lights me up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the longer I teach, especially, you know, I’ve been teaching at the time of this recording for over 20 years now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And the longer I teach, the more I am pulled to guiding people back to themselves

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to giving them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: tools and skills

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to do that inner excavation, that unearthing that happens in a yin practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they then bring that out into their lives

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they get used to learning to listen to their body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: listen to their mind, listen to their heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: listen to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that sort of deeper knowing that’s already within them. But they’re not paying attention to it because they’re too busy being human doings, not human beings.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And there’s so much

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Nyk Danu Yoga: ripe opportunity in a Yin class for that to happen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I think the world needs more of that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right. The world needs more people

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Nyk Danu Yoga: existing in their life from a grounded, calm, centered state

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Nyk Danu Yoga: instead of a up in their head state

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and yin is kind of miraculous for that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And some of you have heard me say before

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that, you know, I I did get into teaching Yoga, because I believe that Yoga can change the world.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But what I realized partway through my teaching career. Is that teaching

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Nyk Danu Yoga: somebody how to do some fancy strong pose, sure, that can build confidence right? Like somebody can think. Oh, I can’t do that. And then they realize they can, and then they can take that can do attitude out into their life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But what I realized partway through for me at least, is that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: teaching to be

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the point for me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the mental, emotional realm, the nervous system. That’s what I’m all about.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so teaching yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for that has been such a gift.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I will also say

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that from a purely business standpoint, if I can nerd out that way a little, because some of you may not know. I’m also a yoga business mentor, so I do have a business. I’ve got a business brain on me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: from a business standpoint

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Nyk Danu Yoga: there were fewer of us.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: There are fewer teachers who are highly trained

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Nyk Danu Yoga: at least where I live there is a Vinyasa flow teacher on every freaking corner, just like there is a local coffee shop.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but what isn’t as common is people who are again highly trained and highly skilled at teaching and leading these quieter practices.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that makes you

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Nyk Danu Yoga: far more of an asset.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I remember when I 1st moved to Victoria from Calgary, where I’m from.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and in Calgary I was kind of half and half yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and Hatha maybe actually less yin and more, Hatha still, although I was including Yin at the end for each class. So who knows?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But when I moved to Victoria and I started going to studios and handing out my resume while I was studying Chinese medicine in college.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: One of the 1st things that really stood out to me here was

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Nyk Danu Yoga: people would go. They would breeze right through my first, st like, you know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: hafa training and all that on my resume. And they would see the Yin training with Paul Grilly, and they would go. Oh.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you teach in and bam!

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s what got me in the door.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Not just that. I say. I taught yin on my resume like don’t say you teach in if you have no training. But they could see that I had, I think, at the time I had 400 h with Paul. I did my last 5 when I’d already moved here, or my last one to get my 5 with him when I’d moved here. So you know, they could see that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the fact that I had all those hundreds of hours of yin training

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Nyk Danu Yoga: on my resume. That’s what was getting me the gigs.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then, a couple of years later, I started being known locally in some of the Yoga teacher communities as the Queen of yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I prefer Empress, but you know either way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so that really helped me to stand out in a busy market.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s also an advantage. As a teacher, you know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: having skill sets that not everybody has

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay. So those are some of the things the positive things I would say about the transition from teaching more active forms of Yoga into yin. Now, I’m not saying you should stop teaching active forms of Yoga. Like I said, I still teach movement forms of Yoga. In my therapeutic classes they look very different than what you would see in a Hatha or an Ashtanga class, because they’re therapeutically orientated. But there, there is movement.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, if I had to choose, someone put crack the whip and said, you must choose. I would choose yin every day all day, all the time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So again, you can still teach movement-based classes. But if you’re really feeling pulled to teaching. Yin

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you love yin got a crush on yin. You’ve maybe got some opportunities coming up for you to teach more yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then there is a bit of a transition

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that we need to almost teach them or treat them sorry. We need to almost

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Nyk Danu Yoga: treat them like they’re 2 separate things in order to do both. Well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so some of the things that might change

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Nyk Danu Yoga: let’s talk about 1st

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Nyk Danu Yoga: alignment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you haven’t

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you have not watched anatomy for Yoga, which, by the way, is not yin, it’s just anatomy for Yoga in General

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you have not watched that, what was DVD presentation but is now streaming on pranabaya.com. There is also a link in the show notes. For that. I highly recommend

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that you check that out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because what can happen sometimes is teachers start bringing this alignment Bs into their yin classes, and there is no space for that there

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when we truly acknowledge skeletal variations, and that everybody’s different

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just based in their bone structure and also their body proportions, not to mention physical issues, injuries, etc, etc, etc.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that can be a little tricky when you are, even if you know that like, even if you’ve seen Paul’s thing. And you’re like, okay. But you’re used to scripting or guiding your your movement based classes in a really

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That can be difficult. It can be a difficult transition to make.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: However.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you need to do it. And I would say that actually, that functional

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Nyk Danu Yoga: guiding yin which is a functional practice, not an aesthetic practice. It’s not what the pose looks like. It’s what does the pose feel like in the in the student’s body? That’s important.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Once you start doing that in a yin way that will start to trickle into your movement based classes. And you will start to realize how many of the cues that you say that are actually completely unnecessary.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but it is a transition to make

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Nyk Danu Yoga: speaking less

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Nyk Danu Yoga: less random cues that don’t need to be there. That’s difficult.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s 1 thing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Letting go of guiding them all to do, Ujjay, Pranayama, or Victorious Breath, or what other people have called Ocean Breath.

505
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because that’s not part of a yin practice

506
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Nyk Danu Yoga: most of the time in a yin. Now you can use pranayama techniques in a yin practice, for sure. But you want to understand as a teacher what is the point of this technique? What are the energetic effects of it before you introduce it into a Yin class? Because the energy, the vibe and the goal of a Yin class is so different

507
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Nyk Danu Yoga: than a more movement-based class that the way you teach breath needs to change too.

508
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And if that really is intimidating, just don’t teach any breath technique, just let them breathe. They’re fine. They know how they’ve survived until they got into your classroom somehow, by breathing miraculously, they will survive throughout your class, breathing as well.

509
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now again, you’re welcome to do some of these more soft down, regulating, nourishing to the nervous system breaths. This makes a lot of sense in the end. But if you’re like, I don’t know what those are, and actually the only breath I ever guide is Ujjai. Then you may want to just let that go.

510
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that’s not easy.

511
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Nyk Danu Yoga: right? If you’re used to. I can always tell when it’s a former Vinyasa teacher

512
00:42:12.980 –> 00:42:36.619
Nyk Danu Yoga: that is guiding a yin practice, because before they get everyone to come out of their pose, instead of just saying, you know, roll over, or in your own time come out of the shape, they’ll always say, take a deep breath in exhale. And now come out right. This whole breathing together is a tribe thing that does not need to come into the end practice, and that can be tricky that can be difficult to let go of. So you know, just acknowledge that

513
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that that can be tricky.

514
00:42:41.770 –> 00:42:44.920
Nyk Danu Yoga: The question often of Do you walk around the room

515
00:42:45.460 –> 00:42:55.110
Nyk Danu Yoga: when they’re doing the practice, like, you know, some of you were trained that you should be just using your words, and you should always be walking in the room, and you should be adjusting your students that all needs to change with yin

516
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because you don’t.

517
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Please don’t be doing hands-on assists

518
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Nyk Danu Yoga: in a yin practice. There’s a whole episode on that. So I’m not going to go into that more. But

519
00:43:05.470 –> 00:43:08.839
Nyk Danu Yoga: you are guiding your students to drop into their own body

520
00:43:08.900 –> 00:43:26.770
Nyk Danu Yoga: and to figure out for themselves what is the best version? What their limitations are, where they may need a prop. They do not need your hands on their body so that can be different and weird if you’re used to moving around the room, and you know, getting your paws on people. And now you’re like just sitting at the front of the room.

521
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Nyk Danu Yoga: That can be awkward, right?

522
00:43:34.160 –> 00:43:38.829
Nyk Danu Yoga: The amount of silence, the fact that once you have them in the pose

523
00:43:39.410 –> 00:43:43.830
Nyk Danu Yoga: they really don’t need to hear from you very much that could be really awkward as a teacher

524
00:43:44.070 –> 00:43:45.590
Nyk Danu Yoga: that can make it difficult.

525
00:43:54.150 –> 00:43:57.039
Nyk Danu Yoga: not knowing enough variations.

526
00:43:57.760 –> 00:44:03.030
Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you haven’t studied again. If you haven’t watched Paul’s presentation, please do.

527
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But if you, in your own practice as a teacher or in your 1st training.

528
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Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe you weren’t taught how to make poses accessible, or taught how to use props

529
00:44:13.260 –> 00:44:21.599
Nyk Danu Yoga: that could be a bit of a learning curve that can be hard, right? Like you can see that the student’s struggling, but you don’t actually know how to make them more comfortable.

530
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And since they’re now going to be here for 5 min, kind of important right so that can be challenging.

531
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So learning

532
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Nyk Danu Yoga: how to give lots of variations and props that can be hard when you’re learning to teach him.

533
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Nyk Danu Yoga: making it more accessible, accounting for their personal.

534
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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know,

535
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Nyk Danu Yoga: body, and what works for them.

536
00:44:50.740 –> 00:44:52.840
Nyk Danu Yoga: Some of the other challenges can be

537
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Nyk Danu Yoga: finding, because our words are fewer in yin

538
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Nyk Danu Yoga: finding the I don’t want to say the right words, because it’s what’s right for you as a teacher, but finding your own voice your own words.

539
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that

540
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because you’re using fewer words, they have more impact

541
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that can also be tricky.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Often it’s much easier to just parrot what your teacher used to say, when you’re teaching a movement class, because you’re just barking a bunch of commands, you know. Like, step your right foot here, do this with your toe. Do this with your, you know, like you’re just repeating so many action cues and alignment cues that it’s a lot easier to just parrot, whatever your teachers that trained you said. But when you get into a yin room and you realize, oh, I don’t need to say any of those details.

543
00:45:42.540 –> 00:45:45.039
Nyk Danu Yoga: and so I have way. Fewer words.

544
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So what words should I use?

545
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Nyk Danu Yoga: That can be difficult in yin.

546
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I believe, either before or after? I’m not sure yet this episode comes out there will be an episode on finding your voice and using your words with my

547
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Nyk Danu Yoga: lovely colleague and friend, Lita, so

548
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Nyk Danu Yoga: you can either scroll before this one or hang tight and subscribe, and it’ll be coming out after this one.

549
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Nyk Danu Yoga: where we talk a lot about finding your words and and skillfully wordsmithing and choosing your words with intention.

550
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And there’s definitely more pressure on that when you start to teach a quieter practice.

551
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Nyk Danu Yoga: fewer words

552
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Nyk Danu Yoga: more skillfully used

553
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Nyk Danu Yoga: or intentionally chosen.

554
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Nyk Danu Yoga: That can be difficult.

555
00:46:34.480 –> 00:46:41.750
Nyk Danu Yoga: Holding brave space, which was a whole episode, I did with Grace again. That will be linked in that Google, Doc, that you can access

556
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Nyk Danu Yoga: holding brave space for your students who are struggling in class

557
00:46:46.790 –> 00:46:48.940
Nyk Danu Yoga: is probably one of the most

558
00:46:49.600 –> 00:46:53.189
Nyk Danu Yoga: difficult things about teaching in. It’s 1 of the hardest things

559
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Nyk Danu Yoga: again, I have whole episodes on that. So I’m not going to go into a ton of detail on how you do that, because again, I have an episode called the Mind in Yin. I have an emotions in yin, and then there’s the hold. Brave space with Grace. I’ve got 3 episodes on trauma. So like you got a lot you can listen to

560
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to understand and get some skills with.

561
00:47:15.820 –> 00:47:21.010
Nyk Danu Yoga: What do I do when I show up. I’m sitting at the front of the room, and I can see my students struggling in front of me.

562
00:47:21.090 –> 00:47:23.690
Nyk Danu Yoga: whether it’s physically, mentally, or emotionally.

563
00:47:23.720 –> 00:47:28.839
Nyk Danu Yoga: How do I hold space from that? When do I step in to help? When do I not step in to help

564
00:47:29.100 –> 00:47:35.959
Nyk Danu Yoga: you know? What do I do with all the things that can come up from this yin Yoga is a quietly unearthing practice.

565
00:47:36.470 –> 00:47:37.810
Nyk Danu Yoga: and so

566
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Nyk Danu Yoga: shit can come up that might not have come up in a more movement-based practice. Right? The the woman who came to my class, who I described not long ago, who was head standing and like smacking herself with sticks before class.

567
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Nyk Danu Yoga: It wasn’t a quick or easy transition for her

568
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to move from that to the yawning in the last 3 poses and the little sighs, and then the Shavasan. That was not.

569
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Nyk Danu Yoga: That was not an easy transition.

570
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I had to just sit at the front of the room.

571
00:48:06.970 –> 00:48:08.090
Nyk Danu Yoga: grounded

572
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Nyk Danu Yoga: calm and hold space for the fact that

573
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Nyk Danu Yoga: she would either get there in this class, or maybe she wouldn’t.

574
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that that is not for me to decide

575
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that all I can do is offer my skills. Use my words, especially when I see things coming up.

576
00:48:25.300 –> 00:48:26.929
Nyk Danu Yoga: Offer my guidance

577
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and see what happens.

578
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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s very possible she could have gone through that whole practice and been just as uncomfortable and fidgety when she left.

579
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because she’s so uncomfortable with being still and quiet that could have been the experience. And as a yin teacher you gotta be okay with that

580
00:48:44.250 –> 00:48:45.510
Nyk Danu Yoga: which is not easy.

581
00:48:45.750 –> 00:48:48.650
Nyk Danu Yoga: Now that wasn’t the experience. But it happens.

582
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve had students who’ve had to leave.

583
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because for whatever’s going on with them.

584
00:48:53.440 –> 00:48:57.910
Nyk Danu Yoga: mentally, emotionally, that they just can’t do that still in quiet right now.

585
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so, you know, I always just put my hand on my heart.

586
00:49:01.860 –> 00:49:03.260
Nyk Danu Yoga: Wish them well.

587
00:49:03.740 –> 00:49:06.269
Nyk Danu Yoga: wish them love, and let them go.

588
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s challenging.

589
00:49:08.480 –> 00:49:13.360
Nyk Danu Yoga: If that’s not something I really ever had to deal with when I was teaching movement forms of Yoga

590
00:49:13.830 –> 00:49:15.039
Nyk Danu Yoga: that can be tricky

591
00:49:15.080 –> 00:49:16.320
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that can be hard

592
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Nyk Danu Yoga: teaching your students to deal with the mental

593
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and emotional aspects, giving them skills of ways to anchor their mind so that they’re not just sort of laying there

594
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Nyk Danu Yoga: mentally knocking things off their to do list. And again, I’ve done a whole episode on that the mind. And then Yoga so feel free to listen to that for more tips and tricks and techniques that I use.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m sure there’s more that I haven’t mentioned in there. But

596
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Nyk Danu Yoga: there’s plenty there.

597
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But you know, when you are doing

598
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Nyk Danu Yoga: vinyasa class. You don’t often have to tell people what to do with their mind before you start, because their mind is so actively on their practice. Otherwise they’re going to fall down, that

599
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Nyk Danu Yoga: the physical practice itself often distracts their mind from their to-do list, or the obsessing or the worrying or whatever’s happening, the future tripping the hanging out in the past. All of that. So it’s a little bit easier in that way because you’re relying on the physicality of the practice to distract their mind. But when you got a yin class.

600
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that distraction’s not there.

601
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so you, as the teacher, need to provide them with tools, techniques, skills.

602
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that can be difficult, especially if you, as a teacher, don’t have those yourself.

603
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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you do not have a home practice with yin.

604
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s a big problem.

605
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Nyk Danu Yoga: right? If you want to teach in, you should have a home practice with Yin.

606
00:50:47.320 –> 00:50:49.520
Nyk Danu Yoga: because all of the wisdom

607
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Nyk Danu Yoga: 90% of it that you will be sharing with them beyond the. Here’s how you do. This pose with your body will come from your own experience.

608
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you don’t know how to get on the mat at home

609
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and deal with the mental emotional drama of your own stuff, how are you going to guide anybody through that.

610
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that can be difficult. That can be hard.

611
00:51:10.440 –> 00:51:11.999
Nyk Danu Yoga: Yeah, that can be hard.

612
00:51:12.210 –> 00:51:13.670
Nyk Danu Yoga: But so worthwhile.

613
00:51:22.950 –> 00:51:27.010
Nyk Danu Yoga: So witnessing your students, a mental, emotional states.

614
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Nyk Danu Yoga: knowing what you could say, what you don’t need to say when to help, when not to help.

615
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that is a whole other level of learning to guide these quieter practices skillfully

616
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that you need to learn when you start doing this, and that is not easy. But again, I’ve given you lots of resources

617
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to help you with that.

618
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then I often get this question.

619
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Nyk Danu Yoga: so what do you do as the teacher while the students are in the shape, because sometimes the teacher can feel like.

620
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, I’m a little bored like, what am I supposed to do up here at the front of the room when I’m not seeing all these queues, and I’m not moving around the room, and I’m like, what am I doing? Well, I’ll tell you exactly what I do.

621
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Nyk Danu Yoga: 1st of all, I always have tea.

622
00:52:14.550 –> 00:52:17.439
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that helps me to just chill out and sip my teeth.

623
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I know that this is gonna sound a little cheeky, but I hold brave space, and again there’s a whole episode on that

624
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But my intention is to make sure that I am as grounded and present and solid as I can be.

625
00:52:36.470 –> 00:52:38.600
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that my vibe

626
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Nyk Danu Yoga: is creating a vibe in the room. Now that doesn’t mean that students won’t struggle. They may. But I’m not

627
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Nyk Danu Yoga: creating that struggle right? I’m able to keep my solid footing, even though that student is struggling

628
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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that a lot of that is what I’m doing. So at the beginning of class, before I even start.

629
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I haven’t ever said this out loud before, but I will tell you what I do my little pre-teaching ritual you ready for this inside secrets here?

630
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Because I’m a Chinese medicine nerd.

631
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I know that anxiety is often in the heart, or nervousness, or phonetic energy.

632
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I put the palms of my hands on the ground.

633
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I visualize that I’m pulling up Earth energy.

634
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I place my hands on my heart.

635
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I do that 3 times.

636
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Nyk Danu Yoga: pulling up Earth energy, placing that on my heart

637
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Nyk Danu Yoga: not to put the fire out, but to like.

638
00:53:36.420 –> 00:53:39.810
Nyk Danu Yoga: you know. Keep that fire settled, grounded.

639
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I do that 3 times.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then, either with my hands on my heart, or sometimes, if I’m feeling particularly vulnerable. Energetically.

641
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then I bring my palms together just like you would if you were doing Anjali Mudra, and I bring my hands up

642
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Nyk Danu Yoga: above my head.

643
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I make a big. I separate my hands and make a big circle around my body, and I imagine that I’m putting this like

644
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Nyk Danu Yoga: white light around my body.

645
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I do that 3 times, and while I’m doing it

646
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I invocate.

647
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Nyk Danu Yoga: May I be present?

648
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And while I’m doing that

649
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m saying to myself.

650
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Nyk Danu Yoga: May I be protected?

651
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Nyk Danu Yoga: The second circle? May I be present?

652
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Nyk Danu Yoga: 3rd circle? May I be a conduit for healing?

653
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then I bring my hands back to my heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I start every class that way. This is before they’re even like we’re talking pre class, even if they’re there on their mats, and they’re screwing around and grabbing props, or whatever. I take a few moments to do that now they don’t know what I’m doing. All they see me doing is putting my hands on the earth, and then on my heart, and then making some circles with my apps. They have no idea what’s going on there.

655
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Nyk Danu Yoga: but that’s what I do before every class.

656
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that helps me to kind of set the stage. It helps me to ground. It helps me to be intentional. So that is done before class.

657
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then in class.

658
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I am

659
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Nyk Danu Yoga: being present, being grounded and tuning into what I’m witnessing happen in the room.

660
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Sometimes I’m just witnessing deep rest.

661
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I can kind of soften back a little bit.

662
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Just allow that to happen.

663
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Sometimes I do need to be a little bit more attentive because there might be something going on in the room. There might be somebody struggling

664
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Nyk Danu Yoga: physically, mentally, emotionally. I may or may not have words

665
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Nyk Danu Yoga: not to take it away, because I don’t believe you can take away someone’s part of someone’s journey, but to normalize it.

666
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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know. So I might say something, for example, like. And if right now, you know, you’re really noticing the thinking and the planning and the list writing, and all that, you know. Well, that’s normal. And here’s some things you can do right? So I’m gonna speak to what I see to the whole group, not to like any specific person.

667
00:56:11.850 –> 00:56:15.569
Nyk Danu Yoga: if I see that someone is really struggling mentally, emotionally.

668
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ll usually put one hand on my heart, one hand on my belly. And again. I’m going to draw that heart energy and that earth energy together.

669
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because if we get too up into our heart, we’re going to want to go fix it

670
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Nyk Danu Yoga: so. I need to have that heartfelt intention of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: May I be a conduit for healing? But I’m not the healer, they are the healer.

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00:56:36.140 –> 00:56:51.010
Nyk Danu Yoga: they are healing themselves. I’m just using my own experience in my own words, and this practice to give them the time and the space that they need to heal right? So I’ll put one hand on my belly, one on my heart, and I’ll just take a moment there and sort of send them those vibes.

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00:56:52.450 –> 00:57:00.029
Nyk Danu Yoga: Sometimes I do loving kindness. And I’ve also done an episode on this. Oh, there’s a lot of episodes I’m linking that will be linked in that document.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Meta practice. If you’re not familiar, loving kindness. So sometimes I will look at each student, and I will think

675
00:57:06.920 –> 00:57:08.879
Nyk Danu Yoga: to myself, they don’t know I’m doing this.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: may you be well, may you be content! May you be at peace! May you be free.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’d look at the next student. May you be well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you get the idea, and I continue. And then, when my little timer goes off, I remember who I left off on, I guide them into their next shape, and then I continue, and I do that throughout the practice.

679
00:57:27.670 –> 00:57:29.239
Nyk Danu Yoga: So sometimes I’ll do that.

680
00:57:31.670 –> 00:57:36.699
Nyk Danu Yoga: But one of the other difficult things, as you’re guessing by me talking about all this about.

681
00:57:37.250 –> 00:57:39.340
Nyk Danu Yoga: you know. Learning to teach Yin

682
00:57:39.880 –> 00:57:44.840
Nyk Danu Yoga: is is being okay with not doing much like just

683
00:57:44.940 –> 00:57:48.779
Nyk Danu Yoga: actually being okay with sitting at the front of the room and not doing much

684
00:57:48.940 –> 00:57:54.459
Nyk Danu Yoga: in the beginning, it can feel weird and awkward, but by, but later, when you get used to it. It’s so lovely.

685
00:57:54.530 –> 00:57:56.770
Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s so lovely. It’s so chill

686
00:57:57.340 –> 00:58:00.849
Nyk Danu Yoga: to just be able to hold space for this beautiful, soulful.

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00:58:00.960 –> 00:58:06.040
Nyk Danu Yoga: deep experience and not feel like you need to be like constantly talking. And

688
00:58:06.340 –> 00:58:08.430
Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, being a sparkly showboat.

689
00:58:08.500 –> 00:58:11.880
Nyk Danu Yoga: you can just rest in solid, grounded presence

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00:58:12.240 –> 00:58:13.630
Nyk Danu Yoga: and create that

691
00:58:13.730 –> 00:58:15.400
Nyk Danu Yoga: space in the room

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and let the magic happen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Alright, I think with that that’s a great place to close my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I hope that you found this helpful. If you are a newer teacher to Yin, and you’re really struggling. I hope you got some tips here again. There’s so many more episodes that you could refer to the mind in yin emotions in yin how to hold brave space. There’s 3 on trauma

695
00:58:40.983 –> 00:58:46.929
Nyk Danu Yoga: the loving kindness, one like so many there that you could listen to that will give you some really concrete detailed

696
00:58:47.190 –> 00:58:50.550
Nyk Danu Yoga: tools that you can use for each of these things that I mentioned.

697
00:58:50.860 –> 00:58:53.110
Nyk Danu Yoga: But just know that it is a learning curve.

698
00:58:53.463 –> 00:59:01.409
Nyk Danu Yoga: That you know, when you move from teaching a more active practice to a more still quiet practice, that it’s a whole new skill set. It’s almost like.

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00:59:02.000 –> 00:59:10.889
Nyk Danu Yoga: you know. Sometimes teachers could be like God. I don’t even feel like a Yoga teacher anymore, because, like everything that I normally rely on, maybe isn’t as relevant here. That’s okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you’re feeling like you’re training

701
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Nyk Danu Yoga: hasn’t prepared you for any of this, then again, seek out a longer training with somebody who really speaks to these elements.

702
00:59:22.500 –> 00:59:27.430
Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re not just talking about fascia, right? Like they’re actually talking about some of these things.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Whether that’s my training or someone else’s training. If my training resonates with you and our time zones work out, I’d love to have you. But if it’s not a good fit for you. Take a look at what they’re actually teaching. Are they going to help you with any of this stuff that you’re struggling with? Are they just going to teach you more anatomy which don’t get me wrong. Anatomy is cool. Fascia is fun.

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00:59:46.510 –> 00:59:48.570
Nyk Danu Yoga: But if that’s not what you’re struggling with.

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00:59:48.920 –> 00:59:52.269
Nyk Danu Yoga: then learning more about. That’s not going to help you teach a more

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Nyk Danu Yoga: exquisite yin class, right?

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00:59:58.740 –> 01:00:02.430
Nyk Danu Yoga: So I hope you found that helpful. I hope there’s been some tips here.

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01:00:02.730 –> 01:00:04.510
Nyk Danu Yoga: Go easy on yourself.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Please use those resources. I just mentioned all of those episodes.

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01:00:08.760 –> 01:00:13.960
Nyk Danu Yoga: You know, seek out more training, especially if you had a shorter training somewhere in the 20 to 50 h.

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01:00:14.100 –> 01:00:22.560
Nyk Danu Yoga: Take another training and take another training with a teacher who really speaks to more of these kind of quiet, less obvious aspects of Yin.

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01:00:23.380 –> 01:00:24.769
Nyk Danu Yoga: All right, my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: until we meet again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Bye, for now.

 

 

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