Anna Lesquesk is spending a considerable part of her life on water. She was elected as the most inspirational outdoor person at Blue Ridge 2017 at the international paddling, yoga, Ayurvedic wellness coach, and one of the most inspirational paddler living by canoes and kayak magazine People were chosen. This Q & A will talk about skills and surrender to support yoga teachers when taking students from mats to paddle boards.
In addition to practical knowledge such as water safety, what is the main skill to teach Stand Up Paddle Board (SUP) Yoga that is not offered in traditional yoga training?

In the teacher training course of SUP Yoga, the awareness of both the group and the environment increases. When you teach outside the water and water, you broaden your vision, project your voice and learn what is happening to the students to be aware of what is going on in nature. You learn to know clues from the natural environment and to acquire your inner knowledge.

I recently heard an excerpt from a lecture by Ayurvedic doctor and yoga practitioner Robert E. Svoboda. During the teacher training of SUP Yoga, you will learn how to integrate with nature and incorporate messages from the natural world at the instant you can teach the whole class.

How do yoga teachers need to change their way of thinking about yoga and posture to adapt to this new environment?

One thing that I love about SUP Yoga is that you practice naturally not only by referring to nature and five elements but also immersed in five elements. This gives us the truth of being nature and the opportunity to tie students with the truth that everyone is tied to each other and all the beings calling the earth as home. This is an easy shift for making water when the floor and ceiling ceiling "studio"!

SUP Yoga is an effective way to raise awareness of the imbalance of the body and move the body to the optimum position. In addition to noticing how the teacher exercises excessive use or missing muscles in a particular pose of the land, it not only learns how to compensate, but also learn how to recognize it in the student. For example, in land it might be easier to stand back with a pose like Side Angle or Triangle, but when you practice these poses on the board you will fall pretty fast if you return your weight! If you have this awareness, the pose can be more powerful and balanced, as you learn to push down your feet and find the perfect balance and strength without compensating by tilting back. SUP Yoga incorporates the concept of sthira and sukha.

Also, SUP Yoga Balance Piece is a totally new world discovered by bringing "easy" poses more difficult, such as low ranging, bringing greater power, balance, and ease of pose, .

When teaching SUP Yoga it is important to abandon the principles of strict alignment and placement of feet and hands. For example, some students need to extend the stance of Warrior I so that they can balance on the board. We do not want to force along the arches of the warrior I's hind legs to bring their forehead heels. If they can not carry around without falling down, falling is part of the deal. Flexible and adaptable to succeed SUP Yoga teacher training will learn how to explore poses in a completely new balance.
As long as safety is ensured, it is important for SUP yoga teachers to think that teaching with SUP yoga classes is not appropriate, such as head stands, shoulder stands, handstands, or poses that may hurt the neck or head. For some reason, many people come to SUP Yoga and want to try their pose, not tried or practiced on land! Training in traditional yoga does not support SUP Yoga teacher training will learn effective group management in outdoor areas and watersheds.

Do you have completely or substantially different postures, sequences, transitions when practicing on paddle boards and mats?

Yes! The lower the point where the pose contacts the board, the harder the board becomes. Sabbathanas, cobra, poses of many hands and knees, sitting poses are different but I feel different, but there is no difference. Moving from all four to the tabletop (4 points of contact with the board, 2 points of contact) makes it much harder to pose and you can see that big muscle tends to take over to your heart I will. Re again on your mat. When you are on the board, this muscle grips even stronger but it also does not work so learn how to go to the sauce and learn the core more effectively.

Poses like Dancer and Tree with the only contact point become very difficult, not recommended for professors, but I am playing together with teacher training of SUP Yoga!

How do the SUP yoga practical practices affect the experience?

By essentially practicing, you can give great insight into the level of stress response, help you to develop a higher level of internal focus, and receive messages from the natural world that will help us in our spiritual journey I will.
If you are surprised by all the bugs we encounter, or you are surprised by the noise that you hear during practice, the tension may increase. It is a beautiful habit to feel insects reaching you, to hear fish jumps and voices at a distance, to react even if nothing happens, and to hijack your attention. Because the environment is very controlled, we can not do this in the studio.

The guidance from the outside brings a new meaning to "the moment that can be taught". When an eagle and a hawk fly overhead, I remind you to pay attention and listen to our inner wisdom, which leads to the source of God. As water drains water from the head, we are able to have a playful spirit in our lives and practices. When we listen to bees, it reminds me of impossibility. If the deer is raging in the woods, we may be urged to gently but certainly walk on the earth. Exercising and adjusting messages from the natural world that surround us is very powerful.

Does the SUP Yoga teacher need special skills to deal with the fear and nervousness of the students?

I do not think that special skills are necessary, but I think that teaching SUP yoga really increases the awareness that I do not really know the story or experience of others. Fear may exist more in the SUP yoga class than in the studio, due to the water element and the extra balance due to the fear of water, the fear of failure, the fear of bad view, the fear of falling, the fear of not doing it There is an opportunity for teachers to train their compassion muscles and we remember that we do not teach paddling and yoga, so we teach people.

Can the skills learned by teacher training of SUP yoga be returned to traditional mat classes by yoga teachers?
In addition to improving group awareness and group management, I believe that one of the most transformational aspects of teacher training in SUP Yoga is working towards perfection. SUP Yoga teachers are effective for professors outside the environment they can not control (not able to raise the fever, lower the fever, turn on music, etc.), and the micro and macro They have the ability to escape from thinking that the class must see certain ways and have a certain thing (props like). SUP Yoga teachers are very effective at emulating water in the stream. By doing so, they can teach from a very intuitive place.

You have yoga for the first time and you are ready to take the first studio class. You browse the studio's online schedule, but it is confusing with words like vinyasa, Forrest, yin. How do I take a class if I do not know if you are signed up?
Before your first studio class, ask yourself what you are asking for from yoga practice. Can sweat and winding exercises feel the rush of later yoga endorphins? Is it a gentle and relaxing way to relax your body and mind? Among the spirit of identification, there are eight popular styles of yoga found in most studio settings.

Ashtanga

Classic of yoga community. This popular yoga style began with Mysore in India and Pattabhi Jois established the Ashtanga Yoga Institute in 1948. Focusing on synchronizing breathing to movement, this physically demanding practice is sprinkled with basic sequences such as beginner, intermediate, sun greetings and finishing sequences.

Ashtanga can be summarized in a single word: serious. 6 days a week, early in the morning, like no music. Dedication and discipline are the key to this exercise, but the reward is wonderful. Ashtanga practitioners tend to have an easy muscle tone, incredible flexibility, and a body that moves easily in all the twists and turns that life brings. If this nonsense practice is marvelous, the guided primary series class is the best bet.

For rest

What sweat, a challenging forest class goal: release. Founded by Yoga teacher and revived poisoning anaphorest in 1982, Forest Yoga offers physical and emotional thoughts through a series of challenging and dynamic sequences based on yoga teachings, indigenous ceremonies, emotional healing, It helps to relieve tension and pain. Students feel deeply, are somber for exploring movement and sometimes releasing the accumulation of suffering in life. I may sweat or cry.

Hot Yoga and Bikram

First of all, Disclaimer: The allegation that enthusiastic yoga and bikram yoga are synonymous will be rejected by god Bikraman addicts. They are not. Bikram is very similar, but it holds strict rules on temperature adjustment, pause cueing, and even studio carpet specifications. These Vikram rules and regulations were established in 40 of his 26 static statements that Bickram · Tudori developed 40 years ago, and trademarked most of the yoga community's troubled trademarks.
For clarity, I will group the two styles. Hot Yoga and Bikram Yoga practitioners will give and take some in a static series of 26 postures (hot Yoga class with hot and humid studio settings.How how hot and humid do you ask? A typical class is about 105 degrees and a humidity level is 60 percent This series is challenging as it starts with a more difficult standing posture and ends with a floor series.These poses are sweaty Designed to create force, balance and flexibility while sinking.As everyone, like a lot.The matt towel is absolutely necessary like water, sweat quilt, prayer, then marathon It looks like it was done.

Kundalini

Do not you feel enough oxygen? Kundalini will correct it. Focusing on refreshingness of breathing exercises and repetitive and vigorous movement called Kriya, kundalini yoga supplements your body's mental energy supply. Based on the philosophical metaphors that the energy of the body meanders to the base of the spinal column, Kundalini's dynamic movement, respiration, and chant are designed to wake up the snake and make your mind and body vitality It increases. After your first class, please expect to feel a mix of energy and fatigue.

Power Yoga / Power Vinyasa

Synonymous with the word flow, these high intensity classes focus on moving from posture, which is a continuous movement, to the next posture. Power and Vinyasa's sequences are dynamic and dynamic, each teacher brings its own unique elements to the class, often organized in an important theme and works toward "peak pose".
Pause may be challenging. Please think that there is movement based on weight based on suddenness, ballooning, pushing up style. Proper alignment is important in these classes, but it is not fretted. Students tend to know basic poses and methods of entering them, and the teacher expects the students to have this familiarity. If you do not know the alignment skill, you may want to start with a slower class based on alignment. Here, please move, breathe and expect to sweat most surely.

Shade and repair

Ready ... Set ... Relax. The yin and restorative yoga set in a quiet, quiet, often dusky studio focuses on just 10 poses in a 90-minute session and offers a gentle, slow pace class. Both styles are suitable for all levels, and there are abundant benefits of mind and body, but their purpose and audience are slightly different.

Yin Yoga focuses on releasing deeper connective tissue by static supported poses held for several minutes at a time. This unmoving way works to calm the mind in order to stick to subtle parts of the body. (Would you like to join me?)

In the Binyasa class moving at a fast pace, it is your mind to catch up with the rapid pace of the class and analyze your alignment when you are moving. In the yin class, your body is in a passive and static posture, 3-5 minutes long enough for the muscles and heart to fully relax. As you physically slow down, your focus will be inward and your mind will be able to experience the posture of space. How does your body respond? Where do you feel it? What emotions are involved in the physical sensation? This self-study exercise creates a more important sense of body consciousness.
Restorative yoga is similar to Yin in that its mind can be quiet at its slow and careful pace, but restoration focuses on the physical recovery from illness and injury . Restorative lessons, often sought by restoring athletes, elderly people, and postoperative physiotherapy patients, aim to return the body to normal and healthy functional status. Where Yin can have a moment of intensity as deeper connective tissue is released, repair is all about mild healing and recovery. In both styles, blocks, straps and blankets are the most common.

Regardless of your yoga goal, remember to keep curiosity about the open mind and practice. Yoga style is as diverse as its practitioners. Everyone comes to Matt for a different reason and leaves the class with another takeaway. Especially as a beginner, it is important to eliminate the tendency toward comparison and self judgment. As your exercise begins to solidify and evolve, you will become more conscious of what you like, what you can not do, and what makes you truly make your soul laugh.