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Name of contributor: Kirsten Agar
The idea: Watching this short TED talk will help us understand why hair touching is a microaggression and stimulate thinking about other microaggressions we may engage in or witness and what we can do about this. No. You Cannot Touch My Hair!...
Date created: 11th October 2025
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.8 Duty of Care and Safety Issues
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Name of contributor: Katie Rutherford
The idea: I have started a reading group for trainees and mentees and other students who are neither teachers, nor being trained as a teacher but who are just interested in philosophy. Guided by the “Theory Syllabus” we started with the Introduction...
Date created: 12th August 2025
Section of Mentoring Manual: Theory Syllabus - section 4.1; philosophy - sections 5.3, 5.11 and 5.14
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Name of contributor: Shaili Shafai
The idea: Practicing Teaching SkillsWorking with trainees from various backgrounds, I have observed that they often cite techniques they've learned in advanced classes or actions that are clear to them. However, they may not realise these techniques might not work for beginners.To...
Date created: 14th April 2025
Section of Mentoring Manual: All
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Name of contributor: Kirsten Agar
The idea: Correct pronunciation is so important in learning and teaching yoga.This is a link to some You Tube channels with authentic pronunciation which will help you develop this skill. It's really not necessary to spend a lot of money on this...
Date created: 5th February 2025
Section of Mentoring Manual: General + 4, 5.3.7, 5.4.3
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Name of contributor: Kate Woodcock
The idea: We are lucky to have many options available for learning Sanskrit and I thought it might be helpful to list some of them. As trainees (and students and teachers!) we can find out how to improve our pronunciation of the...
Date created: 5th February 2025
Section of Mentoring Manual: Section 5 Learning Modules: 5.9, 5.13
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Name of contributor: Jenny-May While
The idea: This is a good way to encourage a trainee to practise talking to people confidently and precisely about what yoga is, and what is specific about Iyengar's methodology. It can be given as an individual exercise but works really well...
Date created: 8th December 2024
Section of Mentoring Manual: All
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Name of contributor: Jenny-May While
The idea: For trainees with an interest in yoga philosophy from the outset. This is an effective way of ensuring that trainees become familiar with the narrative, characters and primary concepts of the text and are able to express them in simple...
Date created: 8th December 2024
Section of Mentoring Manual: All
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Name of contributor: Jenny-May While
The idea: Many mentors seem to be using this model of setting presentations on A&P. The titles attached are from my training with Faeq Biria. They cover all topics in the Mentoring Manual.
Date created: 26th November 2024
Section of Mentoring Manual: 5.2
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Name of contributor: Jenny-May While
The idea: Write an assignment (max 1000 words), or present in some other way (e.g. audio/visual presentation), on each of the following topics (some ideas attached; mentors/trainees to create titles of relevance and interest).
Date created: 22nd November 2024
Section of Mentoring Manual: 4.1, 5.3
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Name of contributor: Jenny-May While
The idea: This exercise encourages trainees to find the fun in Vinyasa (sequencing) and to build confidence in their own creativity. It also gets them thinking about different approaches to structuring a class or practice.Make a simple ‘stick person’ sketch of each...
Date created: 22nd November 2024
Section of Mentoring Manual: 4.2, 4.3
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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: Kirsten Agar
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 has 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: 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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