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Name of contributor: Katie Rutherford
The idea: These audio recordings were sent to those who were registered for the beginners class (for observation) with Abhijata Iyengar. She covers lots of different questions and worries, mainly coming from trainees and from newly qualified teachers. Many of you are...
Date created: 21st November 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: All
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Name of contributor: Judith Richards
The idea: I have attempted to render the Sutras of Patanjali into simple, comprehensible English for the benefit of my trainees, by examining several different renditions of the Sutras, including 'Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali'.I offer my rendition here.
Date created: 14th November 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.3, 5.11, 5.14
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Name of contributor: Debra Bartholomew
The idea: How to approach the anatomy module. I have found it really productive to give my trainees the task of presenting aspects of the anatomy module. For example, I ask them to give a talk on the knee joint or shoulder...
Date created: 31st July 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.2 Module 1 -Anatomy & Physiology
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Name of contributor: Meg Laing
The idea: Gomukhasana is a pose known to all Iyengar Yoga students from a very early stage in their learning but, for most, just as an ‘arms only’ pose. Although Gomukhasana features in Geeta Iyengar’s Preliminary Course (pp. 61-62), the full pose...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 4.2 Syllabus Level 1
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Name of contributor: Claire Ferry
The idea: A spreadsheet of all the Level 1 poses with columns to mark down important points, props, corrections, alternative poses etc. Inspired by something that was shared in the YogaSpace meeting recently, one of my trainees went off and produced it,...
Date created: 18th April 2023
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Name of contributor: Claire Ferry
The idea: Anatomy summary sheet #2 A second summary sheet for the trainees to go over and fill in after we'd spent a morning discussing this all together, covering organs, endocrine, digestive, excretory systems. Has a few links to some useful online...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: Module 5.2 A2 Organs, A3 Endocrine System, A7 Digestive system, A8 Excretory system
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Name of contributor: Claire Ferry
The idea: Focused teaching practice While all trainees are attending weekly classes to shadow, and over time moving from observation to demonstration to assisting to teaching, that does not start to give the idea of a feel of a class. I asked...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.4
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Name of contributor: Claire Ferry
The idea: I put together a summary sheet for the trainees to go over themselves to revise what we had covered in a practical session together with our model skeleton and anatomy books, which I hope covers all the points listed in...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.2 Part A1, 4 & 5
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Name of contributor: Shaili Shafai
The idea: One exercise that we have been doing regularly, is that I ask the mentees to each suggest a level 1 asana at random, and then we take a few minutes to put them in the order of a sequence and...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: Sequencing , Assignments 2 level 1 , 7.4.1
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Name of contributor: Shaili Shafai
The idea: Regarding the anatomy training, I have been asking our mentees to each prepare a subject and teach it to the others. This way they make sure they learn the subject well and practice their teaching skills, their voice as well...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.2 Module 1
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Name of contributor: Shaili Shafai
The idea: During the observation of the online classes, I ask my mentees to take a few screenshots and after the class we share them and think about adjustments and comments. This way the mentees have time to think and train their...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 3.4 , 4.2
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Name of contributor: Kirsten Agar Ward
The idea: Prepare a 5 minute presentation on the kleshas and how they are to be overcome. Use Light on the Yoga Sutras as your starting point. Be able to talk about it from memory to your peers or students, not just...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.3.4
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Name of contributor: Kirsten Agar Ward
The idea: Learn about the Yoga Sutras from from yoga practitioners! The best resource is the IyengarYoga Official channel on YouTube. The series is called "Learning the Yoga Sutras with Clarity and Rigour". It os recordings of sessions given most weeks by...
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: All, 5.3
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Name of contributor: Kirsten Agar Ward
The idea: Prepare a poster illustrating the pancakosa. Be able to talk for a couple of minutes about your poster to explain it to someone else.
Date created: 18th April 2023
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.2.B.1
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Name of contributor: Karen Calder
The idea: Trainees agree a ‘pose of the week’ in a shared WhatsApp group. They can photograph themselves in the posture through the week and discuss props they find helpful and comment on each other’s poses. My trainees (and a couple of...
Date created: 18th April 2023
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