tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76028498090739117592024-03-13T08:47:13.468-04:00Jen Tech YogaJennifer Huber is a Tier 2 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Educator and this blog documents her journey towards certification and all other things Baptiste yoga related.Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-82440823524739199662023-11-16T13:24:00.003-05:002023-12-09T13:37:30.685-05:00Yoga: Hands on Assisting AGENCY, INTENTION, ACTION<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW8aGo2Qjp_LioTykC9g8hgDJZJSf9mtVwr6FmbyyUpxWgQ4PYYovN7Xu-5i-FSqdn32mbUAY_jtw7nPx89aWvdw1WEuPFWEEoiD4zqH2r2t1sCwqmvq3YAn6H-YEy0NWrFUdcADn6yTMUriWSYfpL0Tnht-5DYQzOGiesZQgROgqTWvhX-JVWE9ytbfka/s1799/Yoga-%20Hands%20on%20Assisting%20AGENCY,%20INTENTION,%20ACTION.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="1799" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW8aGo2Qjp_LioTykC9g8hgDJZJSf9mtVwr6FmbyyUpxWgQ4PYYovN7Xu-5i-FSqdn32mbUAY_jtw7nPx89aWvdw1WEuPFWEEoiD4zqH2r2t1sCwqmvq3YAn6H-YEy0NWrFUdcADn6yTMUriWSYfpL0Tnht-5DYQzOGiesZQgROgqTWvhX-JVWE9ytbfka/w640-h484/Yoga-%20Hands%20on%20Assisting%20AGENCY,%20INTENTION,%20ACTION.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I have done a thing that has been in the planning and development stages for seven years. I have compiled all of the hands on assists I've learned through two intensive weekends and countless yoga classes into a single spiral bound book that you can <a href="https://bit.ly/HandsOnAssistingBook">purchase from Lulu.com</a> or you can find it in the Amazon marketplace. </p><p>This book includes 117 clear line drawings illustrating more than 38 hands-on assists commonly used in Power Yoga studios. These drawings are accompanied by easy-to-understand explanations of hand positions and the impact each assist has on your students' practice.</p><p>The front cover shows what you can expect to see inside the rest of the book. I will post more photos of the finished print on demand book when the copies I ordered arrive.</p><p>Print on demand from Lulu.com: <a href="https://bit.ly/HandsOnAssistingBook">https://bit.ly/HandsOnAssistingBook</a></p><p>Amazon marketplace: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1312051108">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1312051108</a></p><p>Square shopping site: <a href="https://jentechyoga.square.site/">https://jentechyoga.square.site/</a></p><p>Fun fact, as an independent seller on Amazon, they charge me 15% of the book price + a $1.80 "variable closing fee" for each book I sell there. This is a total of $8.19 per book which is a pretty hefty percentalge. Square charges 2.9% plus 30 cents per online transaction. Thus I created an inventory of stickers, essential oil, iron-on patches and a couple of copies of my hands on assisting book for sale via Square. When the stock on Amazon runs out, I'm not going to restock there. I'll pivot to using my Square site.</p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-35618941456826763012023-06-01T15:45:00.006-04:002023-07-21T10:17:20.830-04:00Leading a Powerful Power Yoga Class (what you need to know, in 9 minutes)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjSO6MXgeRnqkFB1wM-t57WgB1mpU9f76C7ZoR2i-4Qs8AN_q2W_Oe-MODxJEnhfZrPVocy_D0Z2QZlTYZiGg8ZlQD-hJy7Y3pE_UJqt748TZEAsgNTSxlylZoQN8X5XeVbpGeHouSz9QmFbLZPs7TmNts0ZCXrJoNYwNZLwiZB6S19cp9lKJKqqR/s2958/leading%20a%20powerful%20power%20yoga%20class%20thumbnail.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1662" data-original-width="2958" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjSO6MXgeRnqkFB1wM-t57WgB1mpU9f76C7ZoR2i-4Qs8AN_q2W_Oe-MODxJEnhfZrPVocy_D0Z2QZlTYZiGg8ZlQD-hJy7Y3pE_UJqt748TZEAsgNTSxlylZoQN8X5XeVbpGeHouSz9QmFbLZPs7TmNts0ZCXrJoNYwNZLwiZB6S19cp9lKJKqqR/w640-h360/leading%20a%20powerful%20power%20yoga%20class%20thumbnail.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> I created this 9 minute video to give you the information you need to lead a powerful power yoga class. These are the essential items which seem too simple to be real, but believe me - simple is best and simple is often challenging to put into practice.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="388" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wyvai7rrRwY" width="517" youtube-src-id="Wyvai7rrRwY"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09843773213105861849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-30946082099804067052023-05-04T15:49:00.000-04:002023-05-04T15:49:04.206-04:00Sandbags for Yin Yoga - pattern & supplies for DIY<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirs9gTk2j3YX-ge5Y9K5Sdk8LjMKJ7Bt8-oF0UD_HT_yP9nDhS1H08nipQPiCpWg9munB49mCoKCA-FGYn3xRfe0pTfa-F0bRMlJqia-Dfn_52lZ5jmPG0msGyRjEbyT0dEjqcCc0O0q2BwTySfPvL9WyXSwdKs5AqTXXnTko_aWUeBUkfVLE6bNCXbw/s3631/IMG_4590.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2426" data-original-width="3631" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirs9gTk2j3YX-ge5Y9K5Sdk8LjMKJ7Bt8-oF0UD_HT_yP9nDhS1H08nipQPiCpWg9munB49mCoKCA-FGYn3xRfe0pTfa-F0bRMlJqia-Dfn_52lZ5jmPG0msGyRjEbyT0dEjqcCc0O0q2BwTySfPvL9WyXSwdKs5AqTXXnTko_aWUeBUkfVLE6bNCXbw/w640-h429/IMG_4590.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />This is a simple pattern for making sandbags for Yin Yoga.<p></p><p>Use wrapping paper, paper bags from the grocery store or the packing material you might have to create a pattern with these dimensions. You will have three pieces to this pattern. This drawing is not to scale and is for representational purposes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7QHY_MG07pcptzrdDjyKB26ZjfFwKi_VnRSovJ6E86Q5Q4dppSB0Vbzg3QM36Ktx-fQRxnxHLJCC2rkhvxqyeytvkDjN5PVvzRHh-cOXTOaJsRyK48dqt1CSWmak6CHt74T64syDCwST_sdq7biCRZj1eyqAQOZmqe7PKuiHadgAGtMqUqpTRE_E9dg/s3674/IMG_4661.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2746" data-original-width="3674" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7QHY_MG07pcptzrdDjyKB26ZjfFwKi_VnRSovJ6E86Q5Q4dppSB0Vbzg3QM36Ktx-fQRxnxHLJCC2rkhvxqyeytvkDjN5PVvzRHh-cOXTOaJsRyK48dqt1CSWmak6CHt74T64syDCwST_sdq7biCRZj1eyqAQOZmqe7PKuiHadgAGtMqUqpTRE_E9dg/w640-h478/IMG_4661.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The largest pattern piece for the sandbag outer casing is 18 inches x 8.5 inches. If you want to add a logo or embelishment, chalk mark 1.5 inches in from lower left corner.</p><p>Smaller back portion of outer casing is 7.5 inches wide x 8 inches tall.</p><p>Larger back portion of outer casing is 12 inches wide x 8 inches tall. </p><p>4 inch nylon zipper (this is what I had on hand. If I had to do it over, I would've used a wider zipper)</p><p>1 inch wide nylon webbing, cut to 9 inches long. Sew handles on both ends of the sandbag for easier transportation. Sew handles at 1 1/2 inches from the top edge and bottom edge.</p><p>For the sandbags I made, I used ripstop nylon leftover from a previous project and recycled bed linens. I made two sleeves for each sandbag. One out of the ripstop nylon and one out of the bedsheet, giving each sandbag a second layer of protection agains seam breakage and potential future sand leakage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm2f_TbmtI6g1oNLvPzSwUsdLDWo0575nWpIurqRyCeoyTWzVPRydwD2gJasipyum0iGf6CXBsdLDfkvnZC_riKVHBmykaghDU2aUrAiqFWw1DKppIGkW9iIFnxCxO0HMbQnaG0zIAkiyXa8-jqbPtwuyWJ9frbmJcwx1xLRilu3ayA_5bHf5FFogKFQ/s4032/IMG_4616.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm2f_TbmtI6g1oNLvPzSwUsdLDWo0575nWpIurqRyCeoyTWzVPRydwD2gJasipyum0iGf6CXBsdLDfkvnZC_riKVHBmykaghDU2aUrAiqFWw1DKppIGkW9iIFnxCxO0HMbQnaG0zIAkiyXa8-jqbPtwuyWJ9frbmJcwx1xLRilu3ayA_5bHf5FFogKFQ/w640-h480/IMG_4616.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I cut the inner sandbag sleeves approximately 7 inches wide and 20 inches long. I serged the fabric on three sides (or cut some as one long rectangle & then I only had to serge two sides). I turned the sleeves inside out so that the serged seams were on thie inside and filled each of them with 7 1/2 pounds of play sand. Then I serged the top edge closed and put this inside another bedsheet sandbag layer, serging the top of that closed. Play Sand comes in 50 pound bags from the hardware store for $6. The sand is washed and filtered and is perfectly suited for this project. Any moisture in the sand will evaporate over time and you do not need to worry about baking the sand or otherwise taking great measures to dry the sand out before using it. Over the course of a few days, the sand bags dried out and I had no issues with mold or dampness persisiting with the sandbag innards.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoItIPzhFkrQJ-LzWo7toBHlFy0yV4FsWh14vkmVHjezKBqAtT6WZQLl6NWEPASO-WTFv9_eglFPfJ7fCGOMcOD9USXLG7LMwWemACME_J_sqj8APr-xNtAVN5i7pcDW5-DQFhNfkJDZ0MD6gNdFPmqNS2ghHxk_LpR7GAuOsfWM1rog1jW4r54rGeDw/s3631/IMG_4618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1684" data-original-width="3631" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoItIPzhFkrQJ-LzWo7toBHlFy0yV4FsWh14vkmVHjezKBqAtT6WZQLl6NWEPASO-WTFv9_eglFPfJ7fCGOMcOD9USXLG7LMwWemACME_J_sqj8APr-xNtAVN5i7pcDW5-DQFhNfkJDZ0MD6gNdFPmqNS2ghHxk_LpR7GAuOsfWM1rog1jW4r54rGeDw/w640-h296/IMG_4618.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The only sewing directions of note is how to create an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nPxvkQcFZbo">invizible zipper enclosure</a>. You do this by using a basting (long) stitch to connect the two back pieces of the pattern together. Use a back stitch when you start stitching, when you reach the point that will be the top opening for the zipper, the bottom opening for the zipper and the bottom of the zipper seam. Press the seam flat. Sew the zipper into this section, as pictured, taking care to sew across the top and bottom of the zipper several times to create a barrier against the zipper opening too much and tearing the stitches. This does not need to look perfect. It only needs to be functional and resistant against breakage. Noone will care if your top stitching is straight. I promise.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuoHLksvwvxmZ4NRngqAMaSq72SucH4-VAEB0304rG1ZT_d1T8jP7ekzccGygRTtc7yQ6XTvymAFggyj_PgZS483QzUr4UuTw49iM-fErPCY57IsoUjiqtP7YrQHYSSOQOGjhLw14DV0I8iJxhv7HGyre5xDo90Wh_VBv1ZQ0T42f_BQFcJLn608B2w/s4032/IMG_4642.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuoHLksvwvxmZ4NRngqAMaSq72SucH4-VAEB0304rG1ZT_d1T8jP7ekzccGygRTtc7yQ6XTvymAFggyj_PgZS483QzUr4UuTw49iM-fErPCY57IsoUjiqtP7YrQHYSSOQOGjhLw14DV0I8iJxhv7HGyre5xDo90Wh_VBv1ZQ0T42f_BQFcJLn608B2w/w480-h640/IMG_4642.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p>When you've finished sewing the zipper into the basted seam, turn your fabric over and use a ripper tool top cut through the stitches where the zipper is located.</p><p>The beauty of this project is that you don't have to worry about how straight your stitches are, or how sharp the corners are sewn. There is a lot of wiggle room and no matter how messy it might look on this inside, the sandbag will serve its purpose, and be put to good use regardless of how well you do or do not sew.</p><p>The cost of supplies was <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KTVDV7I">$16 for the nylon webbing</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BH74426?th=1">$17 for 100 4 inch zippers</a> and <a href="https://www.homedepot.com/p/SAKRETE-50-lbs-Play-Sand-363501193/100350256">$18 for 150 pounds of play sand</a>. I ended up making 30 sandbags. Each 50 pound bag of play sand will make 7 sandbags weighing a little over 7 pounds each. Calculating all the supplies (which I have leftovers of zippers and webbing) and dividing by 30 makes each sandbag cost $1.70 in supplies. The least expensive yin yoga sandbag I found online was $22. It was much more cost effective to recycle bedsheets to avoid buying nearly $700 worth of sandbags.</p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-21043744854550833372023-02-06T16:29:00.003-05:002023-02-15T12:10:38.838-05:00Yoga Alliance Aligned Baptiste Power Yoga Teacher Training Manual Template<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvdgHzSIOdbLL4tr_zccFJTYnT8kdVWhQuwG-xaSWcTlvT0CG1CEZkNpc4fGMuLMrvrrivVl6vb4S3Iyqur3KYAu3elGBAvTa9UV4hB1fn3lVI5lKy-xsTDiZPVLBBQMBaMtvmdbTb1_2DIs3CKTfcSSeA_1rQR0im4JtKYF9WnJWZQ8IJdSBaN3us/s2974/BPY%20TEACHER%20TRAINING%20MANUAL%20GRAPHIC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1858" data-original-width="2974" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvdgHzSIOdbLL4tr_zccFJTYnT8kdVWhQuwG-xaSWcTlvT0CG1CEZkNpc4fGMuLMrvrrivVl6vb4S3Iyqur3KYAu3elGBAvTa9UV4hB1fn3lVI5lKy-xsTDiZPVLBBQMBaMtvmdbTb1_2DIs3CKTfcSSeA_1rQR0im4JtKYF9WnJWZQ8IJdSBaN3us/w640-h400/BPY%20TEACHER%20TRAINING%20MANUAL%20GRAPHIC.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>If you've been following along, you'll know that my yoga studio will be holding our first yoga teacher training in March of 2023. As part of the process of becoming a registered yoga school recognized by Yoga Alliance, I purchased a teacher training manual template from a mutual friend. I spent six months rewriting, reorganizing, redesigning and collaborating with our YTT team to create a document meeting the current Yoga Alliance curriculum requirements and reflecting the training we will be delivering. </p><p>All Y'All Yoga's Yoga Alliance registration process is now work in progress.</p><p>With that process started and that manual "completed", I set to work on this template which aligns to the Yoga Alliance 2023 curriculum guidelines and encompasses Baptiste Power Yoga teaching methodology, ready for anyone to edit to reflect the mission and ethos of their studio. </p><p>This template is ready for you to edit, reorganize or rewrite to meet your yoga teacher training goals. I have reformatted this document into four different file types: <b> </b></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Adobe InDesign</b><b> </b></li><li><b>Microsoft Word</b><b> </b></li><li><b>Google Documents</b></li><li><b>Canva Template</b></li></ul><p>The images used within this template were created by me or taken from Wikimedia and used under Creative Commons Share Alike Attribution. The document color palette was designed to be readable when printed in black and white or color and the yoga postures are represented by gender neutral stick figures.</p><p>If you are interested in purchasing a copy of this YTT Template, please reach out to me.</p><p> <a href="mailto:jentechyoga@gmail.com?subject=JenTechYoga 2023 YTT Template Inquiry">JenTechYoga 2023 YTT Template Inquiry</a></p><p> Here are thumbnails of the pages and the table of contents and sections in the manual. Click to see them full size (readable).<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZE9Z129Z7Kta8rUWwfvKQTmnjWbibjJORO8wIdG3VX8s3DDuDiyrCLoqI31fMXWVpD9FRCPh-LMd1PByr0WMUJUPro6vaA6RqT30W7sR9ONT8cr4X5__AyVgJ5k_7KPBPNZcC7hQQcA8jx5pyCaeIo2CXdEmX4FaIbOOx8fliYshDXy9mcUgCnlbY/s5097/JTY%20YTT%20Manual%20Thumbnails.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5097" data-original-width="2374" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZE9Z129Z7Kta8rUWwfvKQTmnjWbibjJORO8wIdG3VX8s3DDuDiyrCLoqI31fMXWVpD9FRCPh-LMd1PByr0WMUJUPro6vaA6RqT30W7sR9ONT8cr4X5__AyVgJ5k_7KPBPNZcC7hQQcA8jx5pyCaeIo2CXdEmX4FaIbOOx8fliYshDXy9mcUgCnlbY/w298-h640/JTY%20YTT%20Manual%20Thumbnails.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95sGEhPTvzbbYZGPGfNsUiwRZTlpiqkVENfVD4S2N4AVM5pUxSPPtaVKO0tKZrfFehh6DPvqpHExisVWy6eiaNv-T0cU51XfF1QckzD3wsKNyf-BTSrqa05WZL1BCFEMzhRWP2sdCAuryxoNjzBDrepx7t4xFR2qzNumbzlxGXixHMk5Hg2Ieaxpn/s2834/JTY%20YTT%20Manual%20TOC%20and%20Section%20Thumbnails.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2834" data-original-width="1458" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95sGEhPTvzbbYZGPGfNsUiwRZTlpiqkVENfVD4S2N4AVM5pUxSPPtaVKO0tKZrfFehh6DPvqpHExisVWy6eiaNv-T0cU51XfF1QckzD3wsKNyf-BTSrqa05WZL1BCFEMzhRWP2sdCAuryxoNjzBDrepx7t4xFR2qzNumbzlxGXixHMk5Hg2Ieaxpn/w329-h640/JTY%20YTT%20Manual%20TOC%20and%20Section%20Thumbnails.png" width="329" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09843773213105861849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-71303493229538376112023-01-04T13:41:00.004-05:002023-01-04T13:44:17.606-05:00Becoming a Registered Yoga School<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kPiLxfnt1DNhcmZPPw7egLlaOwmP3MuxItmJnRw-3k6MzJJtGF8gMDUhhRxat9ngX7vXJ1Tswp4av8n8IhxMK5_PqXALE8cLnwGXxE-hJnaTYDfAQ3ejjDfNO3xgP8MAzdlZfFM8zL6oUFT9MdNkom1JdeHP2isYrjlzVltasQJQhysJ6dQKfGD_Hg/s3715/Yoga%20Alliance%20Topics%20July%2029th%202022small.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2708" data-original-width="3715" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kPiLxfnt1DNhcmZPPw7egLlaOwmP3MuxItmJnRw-3k6MzJJtGF8gMDUhhRxat9ngX7vXJ1Tswp4av8n8IhxMK5_PqXALE8cLnwGXxE-hJnaTYDfAQ3ejjDfNO3xgP8MAzdlZfFM8zL6oUFT9MdNkom1JdeHP2isYrjlzVltasQJQhysJ6dQKfGD_Hg/w640-h466/Yoga%20Alliance%20Topics%20July%2029th%202022small.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">I'm the kind of person who has to actually see the 'big picture' before I can break things down into a logical arrangement according to a calendar based time line. This is a long way of saying I have to write down all the things that are required before I can figure out how to convey the requirements.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Starting in August of 2020, All Y'All Yoga started on the path to becoming a Registered Yoga School. This starts with becoming familiar with the <a href="https://www.yogaalliance.org/Portals/0/credentialing/Guidebook_to_RYS_Application.pdf">Yoga Alliance Requirements</a>, the <a href="https://www.yogaalliance.org/Our_Standards/Elevated_RYS_200_Standards">Lead Trainer requirements</a>, and the documentation required when applying to become an RYS.</div><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>TRAINING MANUAL</li><li>DAILY SCHEDULE</li><li>POLICIES (6 IN TOTAL)</li><li>LETTER OF INTENT</li><li>SAMPLE CERTIFICATE</li><li>BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE FOR LEAD TRAINERS AND FACILITY</li><li>TRAINEE SELECTION PROCESS</li><li>TRAINER:TRAINEE RATIO</li><li>CURRICULUM & HOURS ALLOCATION</li><li>ASSESSMENT METHODS</li></ul><div>I achieved the Yoga Alliance YAECP<span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px;">® </span>credential in August 2022 after completing Fit To Lead with the Baptiste Institute and clocking 1000 hours teaching, after becoming registered with Yoga Alliance in November of 2015. Having this step completed, I embarked on digesting all the content Yoga Alliance requires as part of a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training program. I wrote it all down on my home office whiteboard so I could look at it every day and slowly begin to formulate a process for turning these topics into a daily schedule, training manual, curriculum & hours allocation and assessment methods.</div><div><br /></div><div>After many months of attempting to transform topics into a timeline, I came upon a formula for slicing the buckets of hours YA assigns to each major topic. I took the hours tied to each major topic and divided them into what I felt might be an appropriate distribution of time for each topic, weighting the topics and sub topics according to my perceived importance and complexity.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7q3CEpp2LjRC9PFMQjodP160B0uOmLMxMzVIvwz9tw9TLCNGWheDEpdp_PIRwHl4lQkoOoakwSXgaVnR6IvbNzDvuqZ2_sCdImIt7-kmwm_Y0l-7t8lUMSBWKBIPC-hEjxCpTJ0Knz3XcbUMIXn-mGG4pKyDIO0uNUXALzQZyeao558tirisZyTStqA/s850/Yoga%20Alliance%202023%20requirements.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="850" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7q3CEpp2LjRC9PFMQjodP160B0uOmLMxMzVIvwz9tw9TLCNGWheDEpdp_PIRwHl4lQkoOoakwSXgaVnR6IvbNzDvuqZ2_sCdImIt7-kmwm_Y0l-7t8lUMSBWKBIPC-hEjxCpTJ0Knz3XcbUMIXn-mGG4pKyDIO0uNUXALzQZyeao558tirisZyTStqA/w640-h572/Yoga%20Alliance%202023%20requirements.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Our yoga studio will include training in Yin and Yoga Nidra as well as Baptiste Power Yoga, therefore the YA major topic of "Techniques, Training, Practice" got further divided into sub topics: Asana (Baptiste Power Yoga), Pranayama & Subtle Body, Meditation, Yin/Restorative and Yoga Nidra. </div><div><br /></div><div>Color coding the major topics and sub topics helped me see how the topics link to one another while I was working out how to distribute these major topics and sub topics over the course of the 200 RYT program.</div><div> </div><div>Working within the constraints of when the studio has classes already on the schedule, and when we could have the studio space available to lead the RYT curriculum within an agreeable frame of time, we reached this scheduling conclusion. This schedule would allow us to deliver the YA content over the course of 7 weekends in 2023. Creating a YTT schedule where the days of training are long but not egregious was the goal.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFRSsalGwwT3p8uSqqcji9eGBqd2NNgkYCNtozXV4aX7Po5hgmLc2yYG0Er8DRDY15yweE_g_1rmjcAP89disDkaPdJpNDX4F_4PBxY6CX-T3wrBnUelW5RjXFxR5VUhW3lNwV4j8JC9XVgVbxdspa3VTzGsQBc9oHdU1eljYEqvPJvb0w8VE0sohQ/s1166/2023%20RYT%20Schedule.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="1166" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFRSsalGwwT3p8uSqqcji9eGBqd2NNgkYCNtozXV4aX7Po5hgmLc2yYG0Er8DRDY15yweE_g_1rmjcAP89disDkaPdJpNDX4F_4PBxY6CX-T3wrBnUelW5RjXFxR5VUhW3lNwV4j8JC9XVgVbxdspa3VTzGsQBc9oHdU1eljYEqvPJvb0w8VE0sohQ/w640-h170/2023%20RYT%20Schedule.png" width="640" /></a> <br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Working with graph paper, I arbitrarily picked a small "bucket of time" to be represented by a single square in the graph paper notebook I was working in. This single bucket of time ended up being a 15 minute block of time, since 15 minutes is easy to work with in the context of hours of training and breaking up training vs teaching vs assessing over the course of a day.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEI87FM0gZrFc60dWyU3kfDw5LwX64dQy4XBtEE0pV5O0hyQPejOHOif-Ifo-ujs6FOO8oZLvBS5__v81M8Ow9Njg5jrCFZuGbzuNIsgScEgWkeYOWMhRMIYvIDxfIOZrykjqdBAjV3v0O1Z2T_p97u5yvdghwMkYy0xkQfrSahWIt8hZ5b2Ljo7LX/s3031/YTT%20Graph%20Paper%202nd%20Draft.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="3031" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEI87FM0gZrFc60dWyU3kfDw5LwX64dQy4XBtEE0pV5O0hyQPejOHOif-Ifo-ujs6FOO8oZLvBS5__v81M8Ow9Njg5jrCFZuGbzuNIsgScEgWkeYOWMhRMIYvIDxfIOZrykjqdBAjV3v0O1Z2T_p97u5yvdghwMkYy0xkQfrSahWIt8hZ5b2Ljo7LX/w640-h180/YTT%20Graph%20Paper%202nd%20Draft.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Working through the major topics and required sub topics with colored pencils and graph paper allowed me to see how many "buckets" of time each day of training would have available through the 7 weeks. Once I had the major topics laid out in color, I began to lay out the sub-topics such as Skeletal System, Physiology, Bio-mechanics, History, Philosophy, Ethics and so on. Using Friday Evenings for the sub-topics that lend themselves well to lecture-based teaching seemed an ideal path. Once I'd set the Friday night schedules, the Saturday & Sunday schedules began to become clearer. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'd created a bulleted list of topics, sorted by importance, which I want to impart to our trainees regarding how to lead Baptiste Power Yoga. Using this bulleted list, I began to divvy up the large time buckets of Teaching Methodology and Practicum into smaller slots of time. Doing this will allow me to teach a concept, have the students practice the concept and then we can discuss how the practice went and receive feedback. Lather, rinse, repeat.</div><div><br /></div><div>Looking at the bulleted list of prioritized topics in a spreadsheet format allowed me to build the Leader's Daily Agenda documents which we will use to keep us on time while delivering the training. Topic documentation, prioritization, and daily scheduling was also used to define the portions of the YTT dedicated to Yin/Restorative and Yoga Nidra.</div><div> </div><div>I bought a copy of a YTT manual from a fellow Baptiste Power Yoga Studio owner to use as a template for the All Y'All Yoga YTT manual. I've edited, rearranged, removed and adding content to it since August and I have learned a lot about working with Adobe InDesign to create CharacterStyles, ParagraphStyles, Color Swatches, edit Anchor Options to keep images anchored to text fields. Working from an actual YTT manual gave me a foundation to start from, the confidence to strip away and add in content currently required by Yoga Alliance, as well as the content specific to All Y'All Yoga.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If you are also on the path to becoming a Registered Yoga School, perhaps this post will be helpful for you to organize your YTT weekends to meet the content requirements of Yoga Alliance. I know it is unlikely that your weekend start/stop times will be the same as those at All Y'All, but the concepts I've laid out for a way to organize the major topics, sub-topics and then divvy them up into a timeline will possibly be of use to you.</div><div><br />This Google Sheet will help you formulate your responses to the Yoga Alliance Application. Once you've completed the "Explanation for your RYS" for each of the core competencies, you'll be ready to copy and paste this content into the Yoga Alliance website when you are completing your Yoga School Registration application.</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q66mkAH6IavTniBZJdIEK4gqdCgFLZY_C0ym0yAcNl4/edit?usp=sharing">YA RYS Application Template 2023</a> <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I created an offline template which can be used to pre-fill out your Daily Scheduler data. <a href="https://www.yogaalliance.org/Become_a_Member/Schools/Daily_Scheduler">The Yoga Alliance website for creating the Daily Schedule doesn't allow for submitting this data and saving your progress.</a> It's entered all at once. The spreadsheet I made will help you organize your data in such a way that you can enter your data into the YA website and know that you will be uploading your complete schedule content. This document is an Excel spreadsheet and not a Google spreadsheet, as I couldn't figure out how to create dependent drop down lists in a Google spreadsheet.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/15jgmzxbaqnzddh/YogaAllianceDailySchedulerSpreadsheet.xlsx?dl=0">YogaAllianceDailySchedulerSpreadsheet.xlsx</a></div><div> </div><div>If you found any of this useful and you feel called to contribute, here is my PayPal account information. (<a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JenniferHuber?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US" target="_blank">click below</a>)<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JenniferHuber?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="792" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiARXxuLZnXhLZ3cnlEDEYo8ELLVVymuI8hdHkMPzyuCp_Rxe0NbcVE-TYEEoEIEqAKFq6EK7emdeqRvD8rCheVCH3BlHHM2ZEGfaIzvghKDHd1SU3qeMU9eeyE2wcB4Y3gLa3b7pBowO9iE1bm-9n4V6oBUx8POG71ULpovOVwONHlCCPTCjTSujbj/w640-h598/jentechyogapaypal.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-84244835548099861192022-05-31T12:27:00.002-04:002022-05-31T12:27:28.327-04:00Copyright Free Content Curation Challenge<p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64OZ4Q1UyrX5sNGy_-rO2QqYQ4LCg5SIywzvMHNzdeRZhbNSNyCqA_W7z2qPSb-EDUuWAcl2Chss526Ve1C-ZojdhuUkACn8BhlXm0q0JZ5t4KBqTzwX9K5745nFibWSYlkGTG3QvIKfZeubP18bg2KimvlTFBwWkNUS6YKrYf4o4n-JuptQUT5Lz0A/s4185/eric-nopanen-8e0EHPUx3Mo-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2785" data-original-width="4185" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64OZ4Q1UyrX5sNGy_-rO2QqYQ4LCg5SIywzvMHNzdeRZhbNSNyCqA_W7z2qPSb-EDUuWAcl2Chss526Ve1C-ZojdhuUkACn8BhlXm0q0JZ5t4KBqTzwX9K5745nFibWSYlkGTG3QvIKfZeubP18bg2KimvlTFBwWkNUS6YKrYf4o4n-JuptQUT5Lz0A/w640-h426/eric-nopanen-8e0EHPUx3Mo-unsplash.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo https://unsplash.com/@rexcuando<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Curating musical content which complies with being copyright free, royalty free or available for free use is often challenging. I've <a href="https://www.jentechyoga.com/2017/04/music-playlists-for-yoga-classes.html">written about music in class vs no music in class</a> previously, but this topic has risen back up into my radar. Our studio owner has recently stopped paying the nearly $900/year fee to ASCAP which allowed us to play licensed music in the yoga studio. The majority of our classes are taught with no music, but the ASCAP licensing is needed even if the music being played happens before or after a yoga class is led.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I've begun using searches in Spotify to attempt to curate copyright free playlists for our classes. It seems that not all the songs that come up with a "copyright free" or "royalty free" search query in Spotify are actually copyright/royalty free. I've had several copyright strikes on my audio class recordings posted to YouTube for tracks that were results for copyright/royalty free searches. What is also interesting is the copyright strikes I've received claiming the song that was playing in the background as belonging to an artist/record label when it was definitevly not that song by the artist/label claming that track as theirs. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This happened recently for the Journey Into Power 505 class where I used a playlist of copyright free beats in Spotify. <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2w7HsELXb3sJJOzjfKj0G9?si=fb3b9087e6744d3e">Playlist link</a>. The Orchard Music claims a copyright strike against this class recording at the <a href="https://youtu.be/PRRJb1l2QfA?t=1978">32:57 minute</a> mark claiming that this song is Long Beach by Beatmasta. I know that this isn't the song playing at this point in the class (it is actually <span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3uO0ZI6KgMAoimIhfJeJxo?si=96df2ecd2a0543a5">"Beat 1"</a> from a Royalty Free Hip Hop Beat Album on Spotify). I did some searching online to try to find "Long Beach" so I could hear it and compare. Fun fact, The Orchard Music <a href="https://www.jiosaavn.com/song/long-beach/ST4RWjB0ZVE">doesn't even allow streaming of this recording</a> in the United States.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">In the past I've had spurious copyright claims laid agains the three OMs heard at the beginning of each class recording as being </span><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMz02txocY">День 3 -- Новые начинания</a>, </span><span style="text-align: center;">and me making a crystal bowl ring as being Requiem (claimed by Believe Music). These copyright claimswere easy to dispute as I knew that there was no music at all in those classes receiving the copyright strike. It is harder now that some of my classes have what I believe to be is copyright free music in them. It seems that I can't always be sure of what my search results in Spotify tell me. I know I could download music from The Free Music Archive or the You Tube Music Library but the ease of using AirPlay from a Spotify playlist has been an irresistable low barrier to entry.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">This does encourage me to get back to work on making my own original music, putting it in Spotify and thereby being able to 100% refute any copyright claim on a class of mine going forward. Stay tuned for advancements in this space regarding copyright free music made by yours truly.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Disputing incorrect copyright strikes would be more meaningful if my YouTube channel were monitized, but it isn't. All the content I publish is free of any monitization. The copyright strikes I receive are a mere annoyance as they have no financial impact to me, but I find it irritataing that a record label is claming rights to what is not theirs in hopes of making some money off of the content I've uploaded.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I can point to two very excellent musicians who have a slew of albums/eps/songs available for streaming in Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5JRxfOFTlqoWivEpflMHjq">Chad Crouch</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4oGlqi5TaK8r8K50fQhUbe">Karl Casey</a>. Very different ends of the spectrum and both of them are extremely prolific!</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-32994761267559442592022-05-24T13:06:00.001-04:002022-05-24T13:06:50.865-04:00Making a Generic Equivalent Aromatherapy Blend Through Trial and Error<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi41q4cturmFS9v1E_3LAiIhOkpXaY88R_3_SlaDByWNJyjICOUUyS3WV2YfwYWSiugk3CBYR7dK3y7XfO9XxUrQyWyZOfUzmImK5dBQvAC9lGj3TzsGh9zkwtOjK94sS5sQBdVY8TbNL5U6j3pJPSoGTtSQXoxO2IujkMq98R5PLpsaHyJjhw4L8KcBw/s2588/christin-hume-0MoF-Fe0w0A-unsplash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="essential oil drops" border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="2588" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi41q4cturmFS9v1E_3LAiIhOkpXaY88R_3_SlaDByWNJyjICOUUyS3WV2YfwYWSiugk3CBYR7dK3y7XfO9XxUrQyWyZOfUzmImK5dBQvAC9lGj3TzsGh9zkwtOjK94sS5sQBdVY8TbNL5U6j3pJPSoGTtSQXoxO2IujkMq98R5PLpsaHyJjhw4L8KcBw/w640-h426/christin-hume-0MoF-Fe0w0A-unsplash.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Have you wanted to figure out how to make a generic equivalent for an aromatherapy scent blend that you love, but don't know how to begin? That's where I was a few weeks ago. A friend of mine told me she'd been buying a blend that retails for $15 for .5 ounces. I told her to hold up and let me break down the ingredients and make a close-enough version of it.</p><p>I hand't done this process before, but I was certain that I could make a go of it. I did some digging and found a few websites that give some general guidelines for ratios of basenotes, middle notes and top notes, as well as how to convert a given number of drops of a scent into a percentage or a mL measurment.</p><p><a href="https://capriessentials.com/a-beginners-diy-guide-to-blending-essential-oils/">Top, Middle and Basenotes</a></p><p><a href="https://www.aromaweb.com/articles/guide-to-calculating-percentages.asp">Drops to Percentages</a></p><p><a href="https://www.unitconverters.net/volume/drop-to-milliliter.htm">Drops to mL</a></p><p>The ingredients in this blend I was deconstructing were most likely listed in order of most to least. Sweet orange, lavender, basil, peppermint, Roman chamomile, and patchouli. I looked up each ingredient to see if it was classified as a top, middle or base note, and this as a guide to cross reference what my nose detected in the original blend as being the prominent and underlying scents.</p><p>Sweet Orange - topnote<br />Lavender - topnote<br />Patchouli - basenote<br />Peppermint - topnote<br />Basil - middlenote<br />Chamomile - middlenote</p><p>I started small, adding the following number of drops. This got me to pretty close but not enough sweet orange.</p><p>Sweet Orange 6<br />Lavender 6<br />Patchouli 2<br />Peppermint 4<br />Basil 2<br />Chamomile 1</p><p>Next round - this is the keeper. Smells close enough to make everyone happy :)</p><p>Sweet Orange 9<br />Lavender 6<br />Patchouli 2<br />Peppermint 4<br />Basil 2<br />Chamomile 1</p><p>24 total drops = 100%, therfore calculating the percentages of each ingredient involves dividing 100 by 24 and from this we get the multiplier for each ingredient to achieve it's percentage of 100 drops (5mL)</p><p>Sweet Orange 9 x 4.16 = 37.5%<br />Lavender 6 x 4.16 = 25% (rounding up)<br />Patchouli 2 x 4.16 = 8%<br />Peppermint 4 x 4.16 = 17% (rounding up)<br />Basil 2 x 4.16 = 8%<br />Chamomile 1 x 4.16 = 4.16%</p><p>Now to find the 30mL amount based on the percentages.. google calculator to the rescue</p><p>Sweet Orange 9 x 4.16 = 37.5%<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=37.5%25+of+5mL&oq=37.5%25+of+30mL">37.5% of 30mL</a><br />Lavender 6 x 4.16 = 25% (rounding up)<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=25%25+of+30mL">25% of 30mL</a><br />Patchouli 2 x 4.16 = 8%<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=8%25+of+30mL">8% of 30mL</a><br />Peppermint 4 x 4.16 = 17% (rounding up)<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=17%25+of+30mL">17% of 30mL</a><br />Basil 2 x 4.16 = 8%<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=8%25+of+30mL">8% of 30mL</a><br />Chamomile 1 x 4.16 = 4.16%<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=1%25+of+30mL">1% of 30mL</a></p><p>I took an empty 30mL bottle I had, put a piece of white tape up the side and began marking halfway measurments on the side of the bottle to create some guidelines for me to start adding the larger percentage ingredients into the bottle. This was a rough order of magnitude guideline, not intended to be 100% accurate, but to get me into the ballpark.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJtImoLHAunr_hfRbtpIRJV0DrD-8vZAuYM7cMbWE7bNQdW0cLo3PMh-CRbvFQIKOQNkUzKH98dmRsh4WuHpUNNIjTAhghUHHavvE3TCzO7Puva4emVBZpUi0gpusTSuQEE5a6VCyfzD66gqcsNWvJkFtNtSCaIANf5bDZvccsdYJDffKhS6GsPonBRA/s2399/IMG_7401.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2399" data-original-width="2399" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJtImoLHAunr_hfRbtpIRJV0DrD-8vZAuYM7cMbWE7bNQdW0cLo3PMh-CRbvFQIKOQNkUzKH98dmRsh4WuHpUNNIjTAhghUHHavvE3TCzO7Puva4emVBZpUi0gpusTSuQEE5a6VCyfzD66gqcsNWvJkFtNtSCaIANf5bDZvccsdYJDffKhS6GsPonBRA/w640-h640/IMG_7401.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The generic equivalent blend was a resounding success. My friend agreed that it smelled pretty much like the name brand blend she had been buying for years. Based on the price per ounce per ingredient, a 1 ounce blend of this generic has a total cost of $4.05. To be fair, I did have to buy a lot more chamomile oil than I will likely ever use in my lifetime, but my total cost outlay for the ingredients is equivalent to six .5 oz bottles (a total of 3 ounces) of the brand name scent. For this price, I have enough oils to make 10 ounces of this blend. This was also a worthwhile experiment in scent deconstruction, calculating percentages, ratios and volume conversions!<div><br /></div><div><div>Sweet Orange $2.48/oz</div><div>Lavender $5.48/oz</div><div>Patchouli $4.46/oz</div><div>Peppermint $3.73/oz</div><div>Basil $3.23/oz</div><div>Chamomile $16.95/10ml = $50.85/oz</div><p>Big thanks to my friend Mary! She's the first person that gave me a recipie for a generic equiavlent aromatherapy blend and with her encouragement, I took on the task of figuring this one out! Thanks Mary!</p><p><br /></p></div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-10113512742044369372022-04-27T16:11:00.005-04:002022-04-27T16:11:55.201-04:00Baptiste Power Yoga and American College of Sports Medicine Physical Activity Guidelines<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.breathandbodyyoga.com/class-descriptions" target="_blank"><img alt="Yoga Class - Breath and Body Yoga" border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBQIOlj1mSN68N4SQjzbdfAsS_5Cet-HSwOALP7JrptozhyCnMe6vL2doOAevmt0KHzqO17V1AAVKOXoqNT9kCI06bzUtVqIW8kPPzL23-g6qjSsxki2ObSyoqFK5rDzbRaTAGALQLOg-UK2bLHMNRw4CPKPagDiFCZj-Kg8nPp_rtg4gSV-GuUohuA/w400-h400/breathandbodyyoga.jpeg" title="photo - Breath and Body Yoga Austin TX" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.breathandbodyyoga.com/class-descriptions" target="_blank">Photo - Breath and Body Yoga Austin TX</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>The <a href="https://www.acsm.org/">American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)</a> serves as the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. "<i>With more than 16,000 members and 34,000 certified professionals worldwide, ACSM remains dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine." </i>ACSM makes the guidelines for what energy cost physical activity needs to meet in order for it to qualify as moderate physical activity. </p><p><a href="https://www.education.pitt.edu/people/sas307">Dr. Sally Sherman Ph.D.</a> and her team led the scientific study of the physical fitness aspects of Baptiste Power Yoga and have published the paper <a href="http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/27894/1/S_Sherman_FINAL.pdf">"ENERGY EXPENDITURE IN YOGA VERSUS OTHER FORMS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY"</a>. She gathered 40 yoga participants and connected them to laboratory equipment that would measure their oxygen intake as well as their heart rate. The participants performed Journey Into Power in a non-heated room, with a pace of five breaths per pose. Each breath was a two-count for the inhale and a two-count for the exhale. The data shows that Journey Into Power meets the metabolic criteria to be categorized as moderate-intensity physical activity. The physical activity guidelines for Americans were published In 2020 and now it includes vinyasa yoga as a viable way to meet the guidelines. This was not the case in the previous guidelines so that was big news. </p><p>Dr. Sherman has also worked to publish another study titled <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7904652/">"Feasibility of Integration of Yoga in a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention: A Randomized Trial"</a> which concluded that yoga was good for weight loss and participants preferred 20 to 40 minute classes over longer (60 minute) classes. </p><p>This is all very good news that power yoga or vinyasa style yoga is becoming more integrated into the popular mindset of what is physical exercise. The physical aspect of a yoga practice is just one of the beneficial parts, but having more people become aware of the physical benefits of yoga will ultimately lead to more people doing yoga and reaping the mental and spiritual benefits of a yoga practice over time.</p>
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Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-64085440610761356622021-04-18T23:49:00.002-04:002021-04-18T23:58:05.639-04:00DIY Shamanic Inspired Drum from a Whiskey Barrel Hoop and Rip Stop Nylon<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxc-IllIiD2mb2dDtS0hO9kULzTE_e9TgqMXXx3fsLbbLop9N41sgRkfTQ-hYhZFHiv8TdGWceBudzMP8DyPMGw2eewX0F7cqklKskBh2C2W_wPersA6BG5LweX0Dvcf3MLlTettXnWTjN/s2048/IMG_1605.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxc-IllIiD2mb2dDtS0hO9kULzTE_e9TgqMXXx3fsLbbLop9N41sgRkfTQ-hYhZFHiv8TdGWceBudzMP8DyPMGw2eewX0F7cqklKskBh2C2W_wPersA6BG5LweX0Dvcf3MLlTettXnWTjN/w640-h480/IMG_1605.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I've been wanting a big a** drum head for a while now, but not wanting to spend the sometimes upwards of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/244648498/22-inch-vegan-shamanic-frame-drum">$400+</a> to just buy a big drum head to bang on during the occasional sound bath. Granted there are <a href="https://www.thomann.de/ie/thomann_ritual_drums.html">less expensive options</a> but I got obsessed with the idea of making my own out of (mostly) found items.</p><p>After daydreaming on a great many things that might be possible to use as the hoop/frame I got the idea of using a whiskey barrel hoop as the frame. I found a local person on Craigslist who sells hoops, barrels and all manner of furniture made out of whiskey barrels. Hoops were $5 each but were fairly rusty.</p><p>I used three grades of grit to remove the majority of the rust. Starting with 40, then 80 and finally a 120 grit. That was good enough to smooth out the hoop so it wouldn't put a snag into whatever I was going to use to make the drum skin. 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line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CNykqKdM5R8/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Jennifer H. (@jenniferlucille)</a></p></div></blockquote><p>For the first prototype drum head I used a tarp that we had stored in the shed. It was older than I realized and the silver and brown sides began to flake apart. I cut it down to size and serged the edges of it in preparation for inserting grommets. I used fabric glue on the spots where I cut holes to add the grommets, but the glue didn't really hold it together very well. It was quite tricky to pull the cording tight evenly and I quickly had grommets bursting from the tarp fabric. </p><p>I found a <a href="https://shamanicdrumming.blogspot.com/2012/03/crafting-shamanic-drum.html">lacing pattern online</a> and I used this as my guide. Once I got it laced up as tight as I could manage, I realized that I had some thin spots in the tarp that I hadn't noticed. I thought it might be a good idea to put some Mod Podge over the drum head itself to keep it from flaking or degrading any further. Well that turned out to be a bad idea because the Mod Podge just ended up dulling the sound of the drum. 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line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CN0Yj9HsAvT/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Jennifer H. (@jenniferlucille)</a></p></div></blockquote><p>My second attempt used some leftover red rip stop nylon that I had leftover from making the <a href="http://davesanborn.blogspot.com/2019/05/kraftwerk-sky-dancer.html">Kraftwerk Skydancer.</a> This time I cut little squares and reinforced the areas where I was going to put in each grommet and I made a much smaller hole in the rip stop nylon as the opening for the grommet. I had more success with this method and none of the grommets has torn free from the rip stop nylon. The drum has a nice sound for what it is and I love that I have only $5 invested in it for the cost of the hoop. Everything else I already had from other projects. </p><p>Yes you can make a decent sounding drum with rip stop nylon, grommets, nylon cording and a whiskey barrel hoop, in case you were wondering (like I was)!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6djDThaEeOw" width="320" youtube-src-id="6djDThaEeOw"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-7747181150302411242021-03-11T11:21:00.001-05:002021-03-11T11:22:25.164-05:00Shit Yoga Teachers Say<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj255GQ8a4KlD8roG3pXrQcj24ejFgqkJJVn4hg3Rwgda9tqooBVMsfE0pSu0gXiuaKNN8trid5Eg2osqWB2M3ZDG_QqlCHiMMKHDc5QZAOxHIR9wY6xt0H2SxiBsjqAZGPYFUE-iAX0IwH/s2048/anupam-mahapatra-Vz0RbclzG_w-unsplash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj255GQ8a4KlD8roG3pXrQcj24ejFgqkJJVn4hg3Rwgda9tqooBVMsfE0pSu0gXiuaKNN8trid5Eg2osqWB2M3ZDG_QqlCHiMMKHDc5QZAOxHIR9wY6xt0H2SxiBsjqAZGPYFUE-iAX0IwH/w640-h426/anupam-mahapatra-Vz0RbclzG_w-unsplash.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/Vz0RbclzG_w">Photo by Anupam Mahapatra via Unsplash</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Why do yoga teachers say all the shit they do that doesn't make any sense? Most likely because they heard another teacher somewhere say it and it sounded like something they should repeat to their classes. I know I've parrotted quite a few teachers I've had since I started teaching yoga. The skill of leading a powerful yoga class doesn't come to a teacher overnight (not typically). I have had to unlearn many ambiguous cues and remove filler phrases from my speech. My teaching is definitely a work in progress. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On my teaching journey, I took the audio recording of a powerful class another teacher had taught (with which she achieved Tier One certification with the Baptiste Institute!) and put the audio track through an online speech to text machine transcription service called <a href="https://cielo24.com/">Cielo24</a>. Using Cielo24 allowed me to turn her audible words into a written document. I used this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nfuNSk9MVnybNhTc9t9GbTg5VORNq21DlJSjtqjV4dY/edit?usp=sharing">transcript</a> to take notes on what poses we'd done, how many breaths we'd held them for and what she had said while she was leading the class. This was way before I even knew what "Journey Into Power" was.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Fast forward to 2019/2020, where Covid 19 has had the unexpected positive outcome of yoga training happening online. I've taken several workshops on theming yoga classes and using essential language when teaching. All signs point back to - <b><i>listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth</i>.</b> I thought I could hear what I was saying as I led yoga classes. Turns out, I can't hear what I'm saying when I'm saying it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I put a couple of my audio classes through an app called <a href="https://www.descript.com/">Descript</a>. New users of Descript can transcribe up to 3 hours worth of audio recordings (which is awesome). Descript is super fast to turn audio to text, provides you with a read-a-long timeline view and does so much more than this. The accuracy of the transcription was pretty high, but I did make some minor edits to the final documents so they read more smoothly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />Turns out <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UgxGRlsRU9nJHbzdu51d3VIaJNkIYnc-NpvLS1QhGhc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">in a class from 3/3/2021, where I'd said the physical theme was tadasana</a> - I used the full phrase "downward facing dog" <b>28</b> times. I also clearly have a habit of saying "so good"(<b>26</b>), "yes" (<b>88</b>) and "yeah" (<b>20</b>). I know <i>exactly</i> where I picked up saying "<i><b>so good</b></i>" from - I loved taking <a href="https://vimeo.com/46670920">Kate Campbell</a>'s classes at Breath and Body. <a href="https://vimeo.com/99209139">She'd say "so good"</a> and it was soothing to hear her say that while I was putting forth a lot of effort, sweat running into my eyes. <span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px;">❤</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Seeing my words in writing was helpful for me to see where I can allow for more space (silence) for students to practice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Looking back to <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AmDHv4u5k0LbwEuMPp8iJM02jQuQz7fKsQo1jTYHDQI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">an earlier class from 10/03/2018</a>, it is also illuminating to see how what I say has evolved. I used to say <i>all. the. things. all. the. time. every. time.</i> My goodness. No wonder I didn't have enough time to hit all the sequences in Journey Into Power! To be clear, I'm not making myself right or wrong or bad or good - it is just worth noting and noticing. As Luca Richards says "weed your word garden."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you are a yoga teacher and you haven't gone through this process of reading what you're saying. Stop right now, get an audio recording of your class and put it through <a href="https://www.descript.com/" target="_blank">Descript</a>. <b><i>See</i></b> what you are saying. Why are you saying it? Does it make sense? Is it useful? Is it actionable? Can you say less? Probably.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Give it a try and let me know how it goes!</div><br /><p></p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-33185890099278126612021-02-12T12:45:00.001-05:002021-02-12T12:49:20.624-05:00What kind of a teacher are you when you can't respect the history of Yoga<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTgazR8XQz9b2Ob1PqygFsMEQ15t-uja3KDwqi1EQrBDLoPN-PamY0CbkAGA_BeRRnUv8SIUNLJTQzpzY-ncJ8q1BsccQOBfSf8MlWqDPRJz39itBPJuLYlhT4F7O8HZyLrmU_81fuoUo/s1618/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+11.14.33+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="1618" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTgazR8XQz9b2Ob1PqygFsMEQ15t-uja3KDwqi1EQrBDLoPN-PamY0CbkAGA_BeRRnUv8SIUNLJTQzpzY-ncJ8q1BsccQOBfSf8MlWqDPRJz39itBPJuLYlhT4F7O8HZyLrmU_81fuoUo/w640-h290/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+11.14.33+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>I remember my first yoga class vividly. The teacher used a lot of words that were not in English and I didn't understand what was being said. I followed along as best I could by doing what everyone else was doing. The more I came to class, the more I picked up some Sanskrit terms phonetically.</p><p>To my Western ears, Sanskrit sounds weird, strange, hard to pronounce and harder yet to spell properly. I rarely use Sanskrit terms when I'm leading class, because I found it distracting as a new student. In my opinion, using Sanskrit names for physical yoga poses is unnecessary and can over-complicate the physical practice. We heard the word "ujjayi" a lot in yoga but rarely does anyone explain WHY nostril breathing changes our body and our mind. Recently I read "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Breath-New-Science-Lost-Art/dp/0735213615/">Breath</a>" by James Nestor which delves into the scientific evidence supporting the positive physical results from nostril breathing. Now I'm making nostril breathing a primary focus with the <b><i>why</i></b> to support it.<br /></p><p>What this comment is in actuality is an attempt to <b>shame</b> me because I used the word weird with regard to the word ujjayi. Perhaps I should have chosen another word - strange? unusual? unfamiliar? These are all synonyms of the word "weird." I won't be shamed. I won't accept the judgement of this comment. I will get a little angry and write this blog post though...<br /></p><p>What kind of yoga teacher am I? The kind that strives to simplify the practice for students to experience themselves. The kind that puts their classes online for free, unmonetized, just because. The kind that blogs about the journey from student to teacher. The kind that will research the history of yoga to educate myself on the spiritual or secular origins of the physical practice. The kind that brings scientifically based evidence into the physical practice. The kind that resists deleting comments full of judgement and shame and instead uses them as educating moments (for me and for others).<br /></p><p></p><p>Let's talk for a bit about the history of yoga. The yoga limb that I lead is one of but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_(eight_limbs_of_yoga)">eight of the limbs of yoga as inscribed by Patanjali</a>. The first record of asana (the physical practice of yoga) appears in the 15th century (1401-1500) in the book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatha_Yoga_Pradipika">Hatha Yoga Pradipika</a>. According to this article on ElephantJournal, "<a href="https://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/12/early-history-of-asana-what-were-the-original-postures-where-did-they-come-from-amy-vaughn/">the earliest asana from the three major treatises of Hatha Yoga. More than half are seated. Tree is the only standing pose. There is no mention of sun salutations or inversions.</a>" We can trace the physical asana practice that we know today (Sun Salutations, Warrior poses and Headstand) to T. Krishnamacharya. This <a href="https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/krishnamacharya-s-legacy/">YogaJournal article</a> reads:</p><p></p><blockquote>"Thus began one of Krishnamacharya’s most fertile periods, during which he developed what is now known as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. As Krishnamacharya’s pupils were primarily active young boys, he drew on many disciplines—including yoga, gymnastics, and Indian wrestling—to develop dynamically-performed asana sequences aimed at building physical fitness. This vinyasa style uses the movements of Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) to lead into each asana and then out again. Each movement is coordinated with prescribed breathing and drishti, “gaze points” that focus the eyes and instill meditative concentration. Eventually, Krishnamacharya standardized the pose sequences into three series consisting of primary, intermediate, and advanced asanas. Students were grouped in order of experience and ability, memorizing and mastering each sequence before advancing to the next.<br /><br />Though Krishnamacharya developed this manner of performing yoga during the 1930s, it remained virtually unknown in the West for almost 40 years. Recently, it’s become one of the most popular styles of yoga, mostly due to the work of one of Krishnamacharya’s most faithful and famous students, K. Pattabhi Jois."</blockquote><p>Mark Singleton's book "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195395344">Yoga Body</a>" refers to the 1925 book "<a href="https://archive.org/details/fundamentalgymna00bukh">Primary Gymnastics</a>" by the famed Danish Olympian coach Niel Bukh includes "<a href="https://www.yogajournal.com/philosophy/yoga-s-greater-truth/">at least 28 of the exercises in the first edition of Bukh’s manual are
strikingly similar (often identical) to yoga postures occurring in
Pattabhi Jois’ <i>Ashtanga</i> sequence or in Iyengar’s <i>Light on Yoga</i>.</a>” So where did the physical practice of asana begin? Is it Scandinavian or Hindu? <a href="https://mereorthodoxy.com/call-danish-gymnastics-yoga-body/">Matthew Anderson writes in this article</a>:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote>"If nothing else, the question of what yoga is and where it came from is far more complex than people realize. In fact, it’s so complex that yoga proponents haven’t quite figured it out. The possibility of a “secularized” yoga simply for the purposes of health has some proponents decrying its commercialization and yearning for a return to its more spiritual roots. Yet if Singleton’s thesis has any weight at all, then the “return” may not be as far back as advocates suggest, and yoga may have more to do with the secular west than they realize."</blockquote><p>So best case scenario here: I received a shaming comment from an anonymous person on the Internet, I got steamed, did some research on the reverence required for the history of yoga and will probably never use the word "weird" in a yoga class again - but I can't promise that. I did learn about Mark Singleton and Niel Bukh and for that I'm grateful.<br /></p><br /><p></p><p></p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09843773213105861849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-41992496002479435432021-02-01T13:08:00.005-05:002021-02-01T13:08:53.024-05:00Making Baptiste Yoga Stickers for Instagram Stories with GIPHY<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKEOHAbAW8G6EN_VFHtdMmHXbjMjnWCUd9p7epAJjF_ZhoCJLexQhkyMDUzTZymRryTD3bSYR9ev3bNb9UQuspVUj5MWjsOTSVhlZUkmmxCREsSOJ_LLK-yAFDoJF5AeBEFFQrQRlikUg/s2048/alexander-shatov-71Qk8ODIBko-unsplash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKEOHAbAW8G6EN_VFHtdMmHXbjMjnWCUd9p7epAJjF_ZhoCJLexQhkyMDUzTZymRryTD3bSYR9ev3bNb9UQuspVUj5MWjsOTSVhlZUkmmxCREsSOJ_LLK-yAFDoJF5AeBEFFQrQRlikUg/w640-h480/alexander-shatov-71Qk8ODIBko-unsplash.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<p><br /></p><p></p><div>I haven't played around with Instagram Stories very much, but when I was posting an IG story from Wax Wednesdays at Ella's and found a "<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7602849809073911759/4199249600247943543#">rickroll</a>' sticker - my first thought was "How the heck do stickers get into IG?"</div><div><br /></div><div>I did some googling and found a few great "this is how you do it" posts:</div><div><a href="https://badrhinoinc.com/what-to-search-to-find-the-best-instagram-stories-stickers/">What to Search to find the Best Instagram Stories Stickers</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.envision-creative.com/blog/instagram-stickers/">Instagram Stickers: The Perfect Way to Kick Off 2020</a></div><div><br /></div><div>The short version is: <a href="https://support.giphy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019977992-Apply-For-A-Brand-Channel">Create a Giphy account and get "brand" verified.</a> If you're branding your account for your yoga studio, use a an email address that tied to your studio domain name - not a gmail or yahoo account (as an example).</div><div><br /></div><div>Once you're approved as a brand account, you can make and <a href="https://support.giphy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019683332-What-Is-A-GIPHY-Sticker-">upload stickers to GIPHY</a>. When you upload your animated gif (sticker), you have the option to tag the image with words that will help it be found when people are searching on IG. </div><div><br /></div><div>It takes a while for your new sticker (gif) to be visible in an IG search, so be patient.</div><div><br /></div><div>GIPHY has very clear guidelines posted for stickers: <a href="https://support.giphy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029960931-Requirements-for-Sticker-Approval">Requirements for Sticker Approval</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Knowing that the Baptiste community is global, utilizes IG quite a bit - I made stickers of each section of the Journey Into Power sequence, the Baptiste logo, one for Sara Page, Mike Murdoch, Leandra, Baron and Luca (so far). The search phrase is '<b>Baptiste Yoga</b>' to find all of them!</div><div><br /></div><div>Making an animated gif on a transparent background can be done several ways. </div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://Unscreen.com">Unscreen.com</a> can remove a background from a video file and export a gif of the video clip</li><li>You can <a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/make-animated-gif.html">import a video clip into Photoshop</a> to make an animated gif</li><li><a href="https://giphy.com/create/gifmaker">GIPHY can turn a video file into a gif</a> (but not remove the background)</li><li><a href="https://www11.lunapic.com/editor/?action=transparent">Lunapic</a> can be used to remove backgrounds and make transparent GIFs</li><li><a href="https://www.online-image-editor.com/gifmaker/">Online Image Editor</a> has a transparency tool for making GIFs</li></ul><div>I'll leave it at that - there are so many different ways to make animated gifs with transparent backgrounds. There's no one way to do it. I have a copy of Photoshop, but using <a href="http://Unscreen.com">Unscreen.com</a> works pretty well if your clip is short. I've used Camtasia to record video snippets off my laptop screen and then turned those video snippets into gifs. If you're handy with using software to record video/edit images - making your own stickers (animated gifs with transparent backgrounds) will come naturally. If you've never worked with images or video in this manner, you'll find the online tools that do the work for you to be the easiest way to make your own IG stickers.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7h3E_eeZ8DZKoOKNtbEXk_lLfvP981UKbUOSCMqACKD8km7v68ECk8GOJjdo5HW9U6taRkf719CmekvmJf7MwvYQc5-PklvCXGZFAbfugpCE9LxpZrGWJKLU0fYkuMB-yXxLdA0co6-Q/s2436/IMG_0928.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2436" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7h3E_eeZ8DZKoOKNtbEXk_lLfvP981UKbUOSCMqACKD8km7v68ECk8GOJjdo5HW9U6taRkf719CmekvmJf7MwvYQc5-PklvCXGZFAbfugpCE9LxpZrGWJKLU0fYkuMB-yXxLdA0co6-Q/w296-h640/IMG_0928.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj9r8rEfDCElKWKhCEkUfKSnbDFVLSdSrNh4CcGOHPqLu8IijeJeUOGI00k9xEfupUJBODBjwW480n9PtmZ7HLjumptiLgNgPgHmz52MQuloVLp5I5bE71u3cKxJomHUwYNu-O0M8nfYNO/s2048/IMG_0927.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1768" data-original-width="2048" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj9r8rEfDCElKWKhCEkUfKSnbDFVLSdSrNh4CcGOHPqLu8IijeJeUOGI00k9xEfupUJBODBjwW480n9PtmZ7HLjumptiLgNgPgHmz52MQuloVLp5I5bE71u3cKxJomHUwYNu-O0M8nfYNO/w640-h552/IMG_0927.png" width="640" /></a></div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-24809438126816186922020-11-27T14:53:00.003-05:002020-12-01T14:17:35.153-05:00Gratitude for constructive feedback<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-xy2M7L_ZShfzbuKeho2q1NzPao3NMiXsz94-02-kMAOXVEBgbQ5JXOh0YqxKVO7kkc9uJl87D1AeHJcF4yjumJ3p4rOsEKih2-QBIaYvaCaEXp4zAbrkKYeJtyN65InqSN5Hq3kY7u87/s2048/green-chameleon-s9CC2SKySJM-unsplash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-xy2M7L_ZShfzbuKeho2q1NzPao3NMiXsz94-02-kMAOXVEBgbQ5JXOh0YqxKVO7kkc9uJl87D1AeHJcF4yjumJ3p4rOsEKih2-QBIaYvaCaEXp4zAbrkKYeJtyN65InqSN5Hq3kY7u87/w640-h426/green-chameleon-s9CC2SKySJM-unsplash.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I've been working on leveling up my yoga teaching skills recently. I would say it started with Leandra's "Lizard Tail" class, but I didn't start putting concept into creation until I received constructive feedback from my friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bergfeld">Julie Bergfeld</a> after she took my class via Zoom on <a href="https://t.co/UPApecHHC8?amp=1">8/25/2020</a>. Essentially her feedback was that I should use student's names and be specific on who I am speaking to, it would be helpful if I had a specific theme, and what I spoke to was good, but was enough for two classes worth and I should leave more space (less instructing, more holding space). Her feedback was accurate and helped me get real with how I was holding the container for the students to have a yoga practice. I'd been winging it, waiting for inspiration to hit me with what I could/should speak to during the class. <a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2020/09/theming-baptiste-journey-into-power.html">I began deconstructing</a> Leandra's Lizard class, looking for a pattern to work from in order to lead more powerfully.</p><p>Julie took my class again on <a href="https://t.co/FQXbtRg5Fc?amp=1">9/26/2020</a> and by then I'd themed twelve classes in Leandra's styling & the theme for the class that night was "using resistance as a catalyst for growth". Julie's feedback for me after this class was she wanted to hear more from my share (I'd cut it short) and I say 'good' without directing the encouragement to a specific person.</p><p><a href="https://lucarichardsyoga.com/">Luca Richards</a> held a Grow Tips Live webinar on 9/9 on the "The Shape of Sharing" which was all about theming a yoga class powerfully. It took me a while to digest what Luca covered in his webinar, but I began to put it into action <a href="https://t.co/mxkfJuvtzJ?amp=1">in the class on 10/7</a>. Simplifying the theme of the class to a single concept or single word has been my biggest challenge. I started out with "unconditional self-acceptance" and have whittled class themes down to justice, love, connection and gratitude.</p><p>This is a mountain with no top. As with everything in life, the only constant is change and as I grow and change how I hold the container of a yoga class, I'm able to look back at the classes I've recorded (especially the videos classes) and see pivotal points in the work that I've been doing to grow as a Baptiste yoga teacher. I'm grateful that video recording your classes was required at the time I was seeking Baptiste certification. I have mile markers that show me messy, hiding and awkward. The first video I made was way back in <a href="Dec 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzR-u-wvg4">December of 2016</a>, four months after <a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2016/08/through-eye-of-storm-and-back-again.html">attending Level One</a>.</p><p>In 2017 I was recording classes to apply for Baptiste certification and receive feedback for how my teaching was landing. Messy, awkward, all the cues. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ePgnE89Qw">First attempt</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wSiEBeGP8">second attempt</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipdbYsFLXsw">a full class of YTT students</a> I led the same day as the second attempt video. </p><p>Fast forward to June of 2018, I had the opportunity to lead <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFthfLpWEyI">Sunday yoga at the Tampa Lululemon</a> store and I setup the camera to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab2efqqYZWE">record the 10/31 class at All Y'All Yoga</a> because C. S. Hoback commented on one of my audio classes on YouTube and asked for a new <b><i>video</i></b> class. </p><p>Luca says that leading yoga classes is not about you the teacher, it is about the students. Holding the container of the studio space (in person or over Zoom) is all about the students' experience. I'm able to hold the container more clearly as I leave more space, less <b><i>teaching</i></b>, more sharing from the space of "I" in a way that creates connection and triumph for everyone listening.</p><p>What does all of this mean? It means I'm committed to showing up fully for you. I am committed to honoring and respecting your practice and I am committed to putting my attention on creating more connection.</p><p>If you are a yoga teacher and are interested in one-on-one coaching, reach out to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bergfeld">Julie</a> or <a href="https://lucarichardsyoga.com/growth-coaching">Luca</a>. You'll be glad you did.</p>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-4148962145284494602020-09-03T17:02:00.006-04:002020-12-01T14:17:30.139-05:00Theming a Baptiste Journey Into Power Yoga Class - How do they do it?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwfvnXA6lNI7yGHQ8kjohyphenhyphenHt5znUFnAf1oJJOXCxxn2zhkdWLEomZj8BixRdpF-ZTOpU1yoB-wTkIDpigRPU8SKHaNHLAryUJA1AhEwoww0sjJ7Kkonk-nmRRz_Y7KguiVyhyTuFIFAQAl/s1360/Leandra-ShedYourTail.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="1360" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwfvnXA6lNI7yGHQ8kjohyphenhyphenHt5znUFnAf1oJJOXCxxn2zhkdWLEomZj8BixRdpF-ZTOpU1yoB-wTkIDpigRPU8SKHaNHLAryUJA1AhEwoww0sjJ7Kkonk-nmRRz_Y7KguiVyhyTuFIFAQAl/w640-h187/Leandra-ShedYourTail.png" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></div>A masterfully themed yoga class is a beautiful thing to behold and to experience. I recently had that experience in a class led by <a href="https://www.leandraantonutti.com/">Leandra Antonutti</a> where she wove the concept of a lizard losing or shedding its tail into the class theme. She linked a lizard losing its tail into our practice by having us do lots of lizard-based poses but she also spoke to where a lizard doesn't make losing its tail right or wrong and it doesn't try to fix it. She then spoke to how people often get caught up in experiencing a loss of some kind and we go into trying to fix it rather than seeing the loss as an opportunity to regenerate, rebirth and begin again. I had the experience of "HOW DID SHE DO THAT?" while I was practicing. <br /><br />I like to <a href="http://jenniferhuber.blogspot.com/2015/10/teaching-yoga-is-unlike-anything-ive.html">break things down and try to figure them out</a>, so once her website went live, I took the time to dive into the pacing of what she said, when she said it, how often she gave us silence and when she spoke to the physical cues of the yoga practice of Journey Into Power.<br /><br />I know this is WAY overboard behavior. I was hoping to find a magical pattern in her lovingly themed classes so I compared the theme in "Give Up The Small Fights" with "Shed Your Tail", but I did not find an obvious A+B+C=D pattern. What I did find gave me enough of a structure to play with creating themes for my classes.<br /><br />First there's the theme - clearly stated - "The theme of today's class is X". For this I called it the concept. Where I saw a clear link to Baptiste Methodology, I simply called that methodology. Any phrases that supported the action tied to the concept, I called those action/access. Anytime a phrase was used to describe something counter to the action/access, I called those constraints. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50B3-bo8lUlEwbrnYNGtGcsPN28nBatADB5YnOod-7M7P-k3obS5an2AXl2s3Qg8WXtBE3l_Z5ZC3LsckCHLw5JjJcSejm_CFcSTc-YS_MCFvks-1WNTD2drJOQ7iuigvxFtbFvbLeiqW/s1795/Planning.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1795" data-original-width="1411" height="781" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50B3-bo8lUlEwbrnYNGtGcsPN28nBatADB5YnOod-7M7P-k3obS5an2AXl2s3Qg8WXtBE3l_Z5ZC3LsckCHLw5JjJcSejm_CFcSTc-YS_MCFvks-1WNTD2drJOQ7iuigvxFtbFvbLeiqW/w616-h781/Planning.gif" width="616" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">From here I started color coding and underlining the types of phrases throughout the class. I made notes on when she was speaking to anything OTHER than the physical yoga practice. Making notes with timestamps of when she was speaking, when she was quiet and what pose we were in when this was happening. I then used the Journey Into Power outline (which she didn't teach strictly from) and color coded the sections where she spoke to THEME, METHODOLOGY, ACTION/ACCESS or CONSTRAINT. I was looking for a pattern, but none was obvious even after comparing the lizard class with the small fights class.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMmdARQXkKiXpxOB7NQNrForU8Y1oVkq9_nBdXsv2vMIkWLTkkVT6kCKKIZk5iM7JHye_P4dmnhyphenhyphenjTu0Ov7EOv21bYK55Ru6x99vFb4lPBaTch7ebaVnuK53lmEfL1qKOtWAGuWApwXNF8/s2016/ShedYourTail.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1397" height="976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMmdARQXkKiXpxOB7NQNrForU8Y1oVkq9_nBdXsv2vMIkWLTkkVT6kCKKIZk5iM7JHye_P4dmnhyphenhyphenjTu0Ov7EOv21bYK55Ru6x99vFb4lPBaTch7ebaVnuK53lmEfL1qKOtWAGuWApwXNF8/w680-h976/ShedYourTail.gif" width="680" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIY5RL4_svzY-0ousWzyxWoIa6p8LQRqeFz7cNUbBU2PgcImqszH9jXWahX56XhmHT1Kdwg7g6T_LV2C3hHCauHdg321vYBkU7JlnthmAB2ExpnezdMGhFVQRwkXEtPv3gdAhU0ovfVgAe/s1961/SmallFights.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1961" data-original-width="1322" height="976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIY5RL4_svzY-0ousWzyxWoIa6p8LQRqeFz7cNUbBU2PgcImqszH9jXWahX56XhmHT1Kdwg7g6T_LV2C3hHCauHdg321vYBkU7JlnthmAB2ExpnezdMGhFVQRwkXEtPv3gdAhU0ovfVgAe/w661-h976/SmallFights.gif" width="661" /></a><br /></div><br /><a href="https://lucarichardsyoga.com/">Luca Richards</a> is holding a <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flucarichardsyoga.com%2Fstore%2Fols%2Fproducts%2Fgrow-tips-live-webinar%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2c4bGq8q5IldlIXfD59vySKQ-0OgAB8QEbne8RSZN-Th_3to2yXkjivSk&h=AT1WaxJu6eqC6DY2T5GrBwmuBp26jJ_-Q0uqE2huW9ehZXlRVsQ-SjcrfdVSUFeOIkcnqtClIeI2mZRr7jB1sEIV-8wtCkdsmgmabEqj5EsJw3LYZWIOzUX3GBovBybbLhZM9LY&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT3EOd3_Ls-ybLy-Au0cgY4mK9lLkpOh4gAydHxDGrLvRPybAgAPZKLfxa1-K0G4xnhNFp3N5pZjDipxOK9mt9jf_q2NOg2ahgCXMDIiu9x-0rFt8Eg_OFZh-CXHhLiK33MKGvotYEKbThEpuXub4g">Grow Tips Live - How to Deliver an Impactful Theme In Your Classes</a> on September 9th. I'm excited to learn about how Luca themes classes, now that I've dissected two of Leandra's powerfully themed classes and come up with a hypothesis of sorts.<br /><br />Until then, I used the CONCEPT, METHODOLOGY, ACTION/ACCESS, CONSTRAINT quadrant to theme two classes so far. The feedback I received on the first class was that I should not use the word 'maybe' when offering modifications for poses as the word 'maybe' is disempowering, and that I should speak to my experiences around the theme of the class. Here is the worksheet I used for the second class I themed with the quadrant method so you can see my thought processes.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh85K43Ru7ASotPRcNoqY3HiF1rBNlbAOV0D3Aqmx-bDLXvh5RW24e9F17Po6yF_XWyFu9oW9kufFFvKL5WrZPY9x17SevS1fjnN0W2xGyTSx5egaMCUHmYL9_6RxD8I7SsolUHrJ2-Gc96/s2016/implicitbias.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="2016" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh85K43Ru7ASotPRcNoqY3HiF1rBNlbAOV0D3Aqmx-bDLXvh5RW24e9F17Po6yF_XWyFu9oW9kufFFvKL5WrZPY9x17SevS1fjnN0W2xGyTSx5egaMCUHmYL9_6RxD8I7SsolUHrJ2-Gc96/w781-h548/implicitbias.gif" width="781" /></span><br /></a><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">With time and practice, it will get easier to speak to themes, action/access concepts and constraints without needing notes. For now while we're teaching from a standing desk in the yoga studio, I don't think that having notes with me is such a terrible thing while I'm trying on this new way of teaching.<br /><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Leave me a message about how you theme classes? I'm curious!<br /></div></div></div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-36135321013855025572020-06-25T18:07:00.004-04:002020-08-11T07:49:42.946-04:00Black Lives Matter - Black Baptiste Yoga Teachers<div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Like a great many other people right now, I've been reading <a href="https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/">Me and White Supremacy</a> by Layla Saad. One takeaway from her book is for me to do more to uplift, center, pay and elevate Black leaders and teachers.<br />
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As I am a Baptiste yogi, it seemed an obvious task for me to put together the most comprehensive list possible of every Black Baptiste Yoga Teacher I could find online. This list is not complete (obviously), but I will continue to update it as I get more information.<br />
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Finding the North America based Black yogis was challenging and I know there are a lot more than those I found online. Do you know someone who isn't represented here? Tell me!<br />
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Baptiste Yoga has a <b>huge</b> presence (practiced in over 22 countries) in Africa via the <a href="https://www.africayogaproject.org/">Africa Yoga Project</a>. I reached out to <a href="https://www.africayogaproject.org/blogs/teams/danielle-cosgrove">Danielle Cosgrove</a> and she put me in touch with <a href="https://www.africayogaproject.org/blogs/teams/catherine-njeri">Catherine Njeri</a> (Director of Teachers for the Africa Yoga Project). Catherine kindly provided me with the list of names of the AYP Academy and Alumni teachers. I did some googling and Facebook searching to find an online presence for as many AYP teachers as I could, and Catherine helped me with some errors I'd made in identifying people (thanks!!).<br />
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The list of teachers is in <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J5QzdmMQH-ZmrzhGCTMCDCOd2p0_WhGG1ZpVghW9yoA/edit#gid=0">THIS</a> google spreadsheet. I've put links to studios, instagram accounts or Facebook profiles so that you can get out there and <b><i>uplift, center, pay and elevate</i></b> Black Baptiste yoga teachers.<br />
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If you know of someone that is not in this list, please let me know so that I can add them!<br />
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I am pleased to have Catherine Njeri's help to put 218 faces to the list of 238 names! More names and faces will being added as I get them. 🖤#blacklivesmatter #whybaptisteyoga #baptisteyoga<br />
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Ericka Jones is a Baptiste Yoga Leader, works in diversity & inclusion and has created the <a href="https://www.mnyogacoalition.com/">Minnesota Yoga Coalition (MNYC)</a> I recommend getting on the email list so that you can keep up on the advancements Ericka and her team are making.<br />
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The MN Yoga Coalition (MNYC) is a diverse community of yoga studio owners, teachers, students and supporters working together to create and sustain a more inclusive, equitable and diverse model for yoga spaces in our home communities.</div>
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This practice is a philosophy of being. It is a practice to promote physical and psychological well-being. It is devised as a means to end all suffering; however, it has become segregated, privileged and has marginalized people in many communities. </div>
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These are the days of choice. Choosing to get on your mat, choosing to show up for yourself, for your community.<br />
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There are <b>many</b> studios or teachers who are offering free or donation based live Zoom yoga classes online any given day of the week. This list is by no means complete and will certainly change from week to week, but this is a pin in the bulletin board of <b><i>now</i></b>.<br />
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These studios and teachers teach from the <a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2016/08/baptiste-power-vinyasa-yoga-methodology.html">Baptiste methodology</a> and the practice may resemble the <a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2016/08/journey-into-power-sequence-all-poses.html">Journey Into Power sequence</a> (or maybe not!).<br />
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<b>All Y'All Yoga</b><br />
<a href="https://allyallyoga.com/yoga-class-schedule/">Sat 12-1:30 EST Donation/Beginners</a><br />
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<b>Leandra Antonutti - Free</b><br />
<a href="https://linktr.ee/leandraantonutti">Fri 9-9:30a EST</a><br />
<a href="https://linktr.ee/leandraantonutti">Sun 11-12p EST</a><br />
<a href="https://linktr.ee/leandraantonutti">Mon 11:30-12p EST</a><br />
<a href="https://linktr.ee/leandraantonutti">Thur 5-5:30 EST </a><br />
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<b>Bethany Lyons - Donation Based/Free LYONS DEN NYC</b><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?fl=true&tabID=7">M-F 5-6p EST</a><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?fl=true&tabID=7">Sun 12-1:30p EST </a><br />
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<b>Baptiste Power Yoga with Austin Kapetanakis - Donation Based/Free</b><br />
<a href="https://forms.gle/pioWwg4mnVpvGr2S9">Tues. 8:00 PM EST</a> - <a href="https://forms.gle/pioWwg4mnVpvGr2S9">30 Min Meditation Session</a><br />
<a href="https://forms.gle/pioWwg4mnVpvGr2S9">Wed 12:00 PM EST</a> - <a href="https://forms.gle/pioWwg4mnVpvGr2S9">45 Min Power Flow</a><br />
<a href="https://forms.gle/pioWwg4mnVpvGr2S9">Thur 7:15 PM EST</a> - <a href="https://forms.gle/pioWwg4mnVpvGr2S9">75 Min Power Flow</a><br />
<a href="https://forms.gle/pioWwg4mnVpvGr2S9">Fri 9:00 AM EST</a> - <a href="https://forms.gle/pioWwg4mnVpvGr2S9">60 Min Power Flow</a><br />
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<b>Brandon Sommers - Free</b><br />
<a href="https://web.zoom.us/j/6929093856?fbclid=IwAR1uCQGHkNQUOHthOZbYin2aqX4G29lYiya3Q92ABN5DWvoRRZW4EVbI9Bk">Daily 10:30a EST (zoom link)</a> 30 min<br />
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<b>Alisa Van Cleef - Free</b><br />
<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85479712917">Tues & Thur 2pm EST (zoom link)</a> 30 min<br />
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<b>Warrior One - Orlando - Free Zoom classes</b><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?studioid=40099">So many daily free options! Check the schedule</a><br />
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<b>Power Yoga Canada - Free</b><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?studioid=7861">Sun 11-12p EST</a> - Kinndli McCollum<br />
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<b>Baptiste Power Yoga Indianapolis - Donation Based</b><br />
<a href="https://www.baptistepoweryogaindy.com/onlineclasses">Sun 9:30-10:45a EST</a> - <a href="https://www.baptistepoweryogaindy.com/onlineclasses">Donation Power + Meditation 75</a><br />
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<b>Baptiste Power Yoga Capitol District</b><br />
<a href="https://www.baptistepoweryogacd.com/schedule">Sat 4-5p EST - Free</a><br />
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<b>Baptiste Power Yoga St. Louis - Free</b><br />
<a href="https://baptisteyogastl.com/schedule/">Thur 11:30a EST (starts June 25th)</a><br />
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<b>NYC Yoga Project - Donation Based</b><br />
<a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/FREE-YOGA-CLASSES---NYC-Yoga-Project---.html?soid=1129048441919&aid=9hfGRV1XvZw">Several classes a day, 7 days a week</a><br />
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<b>5 Boro Power Yoga - Free</b><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">Mon 7-8:30pm EST Beginners</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">Tues 5:30-6:30p EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">Thur 5:30-6:30p EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">Sat 7:15-8:15p EST Yoga for Recovery</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">Sun 9-10a EST</a><br />
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<b>Anjali Power Yoga Philly - Free</b><br />
<a href="https://www.anjalipoweryoga.com/schedule-2/schedule-philadelphia">Sun 12-1pm EST</a><br />
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I'm putting the classes I'm taking on my Jen Tech Yoga calendar & you can see them in the calendar widget at the top of every page. Look for [TAKING] in big letters. See you on the mat! <3 p=""><br />
</3>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-36947222624287118482020-05-05T11:50:00.000-04:002020-12-01T14:17:40.609-05:006 Ways to Connect with Your Students in a Zoom Yoga Class<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><br />What makes an extraordinary Zoom yoga experience for your yoga students?</b></div>
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I've been taking LOTS of yoga classes over Zoom since the US went into Coronavirus quarantine. My first Zoom class was with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/austin.kapetanakis">Austin Kapetenakis</a>, and I'd basically been waiting years to be able to take his class (since we met at <a href="https://www.baptisteyoga.com/programs/level-one-journey-into-power/">Level One</a> in 2016).<br />
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The most powerful Zoom classes I've taken are the ones where the teacher has seen me and spoken to me by name during the practice. If I can see the teacher's face and they look engaged, happy or interested - I'm engaged more as a student. If I can see them looking off screen at something else, that is a way for me to check out (the teacher isn't interested). My least powerful classes have been the ones where the teacher is doing all the yoga and is not engaging with us students in any meaningful or specific way. If I wanted to watch a fitness video to do yoga, I would do that. I want the engagement that comes from a live yoga class. I want to know that the instructor can SEE me and is holding space for me for my practice. I want to know that the instructor is OUT HERE with us the students and not in their head or their body because they're doing the yoga. I want to be called out, encouraged, supported and this happens by being seen and by being acknowledged by the instructor.<br />
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First off, I know that it is hard as crap to lead a Journey Into Power when you're doing the asana. You can't breathe when you are cueing breath. You can't see your students when you teach from the mat and the most powerful thing that rises from leading Journey Into Power is <b>seeing your students and letting your students see you</b>. This fact hasn't changed just because we are using Zoom and aren't in a physical yoga studio.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2019/12/creating-extraordinary-yoga-class.html">I wrote about my experience and takaways from the Baptiste Power Yoga Instructor's Course I took (led by Luca Richards) and all these things STILL APPLY even in virtual yoga classes.</a><br />
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<b>Foundational Elements to Leading a Extraordinary Baptiste Power Yoga Class</b>:<br />
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<li>Look, listen and give tools</li>
<li>Speak into each and every</li>
<li>Look for what's needed in the moment</li>
<li>Have a clear purpose for playing music if you do play music</li>
<li>Build in active rest and recovery into a beginners class</li>
<li>Keep beginner students in the vinyasa, allow them to have their experience (whatever that is)</li>
<li>Use essential language. Movement<b> ></b> body part<b> ></b> direction</li>
<li>Teach to the middle-strongest students and up. Their energy will empower newer students in the room.</li>
<li>Offer a challenge to your students by giving them space to take themselves to their edge (whatever that looks like for them from moment to moment)</li>
<li>Teach from Journey Into Power as written</li>
<li>During Integration, get the students <b><i>moving</i></b></li>
<li>Be with the students in the room and keep the energy moving forward.</li>
<li>Allow for <i>flow</i> in Awakening by removing obstructions to movement</li>
<li>Reestablish drishti, ujjayi and foundation in the Grounding sequence</li>
<li>Establish trust with your students by giving them a clear measure of how many repetitions or breaths will occur for each pose.</li>
<li>Count sequentially with the end number first, then count up 1, 2, 3, 4.</li>
<li>Switch sides on the second to last number as the transition between sides</li>
<li>Keep your delivery strong through Opening sequence</li>
<li>Leave people in the experience of themselves</li>
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<b>What is different and needed when teaching virtual yoga with Zoom</b></div>
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<li>Have good lighting on <b>your face</b> so the students can see <b>YOU</b> as they might look up at their screen during their practice.</li>
<li>If you are leading class from a position close to your laptop microphone, the laptop microphone will be sufficient for your speaking audio.</li>
<li>Do. Not. Multitask.</li>
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<li>No texting</li>
<li>No typing</li>
<li>Turn on <a href="https://appsliced.co/ask/how-do-i-turn-on-do-not-disturb-on-my-mac">do not disturb if you use a Mac laptop</a>, mute system sounds if you're using a Windows laptop. This will keep students from hearing your message or email notifications through your laptop microphone</li>
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<li>If you demonstrate the poses while you're teaching</li>
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<li>Use Bluetooth earbuds with built-in microphones so your speaking will be audible when you are far away from your laptop.</li>
<li>Make sure your body is well lit if you are demonstrating for your students</li>
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<li>If you know you have beginners in your class, work with one of your more experienced students in class and "<b><a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362653-Spotlight-Video">Spotlight</a></b>" them in Zoom so the newer students can learn by creating shapes with their bodies.</li>
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<li>I've seen <a href="https://brightheartyogastudio.com/">Bright Heart Yoga</a> (Cupertino, CA), <a href="https://www.fluxpoweryoga.com/">Flux Power Yoga</a> (Bellingham, WA), <a href="http://soulfireyoga.com/">Soul Fire Power Yoga</a> (St. Catharine's ON) and <a href="https://cyclefusionwv.com/">Cycle Fusion</a> (Morgantown, WV) utilize other teachers or students as the spotlit student.</li>
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<li>It is not necessary or required for <b>YOU</b> to do the yoga with your students simply because you are teaching from a video platform like Zoom.</li>
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<li><b>See</b> <b>your students</b> as they are practicing. </li>
<li><b>Speak to your students </b>by name and speak to what is needed.</li>
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<li>When sealing the practice, unmute all participants, acknowledge your students after the three OMs are complete and all the students' eyes are open. </li>
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<li>This is an <u>opportunity for connectedness</u>, acknowledge them and make eye contact and have their microphones ON so they can contribute to the closing of class.</li>
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<b>Zoom meeting settings best practices</b></div>
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<li>Mute participants upon entry ON - Automatically mute all participants when they join the meeting. The host controls whether participants can unmute themselves.</li>
<li>Participants video ON - Start meetings with participant video on. Participants can change this during the meeting.</li>
<li>Join before host ON - Allow participants to join the meeting before the host arrives</li>
<li>Screen sharing - Host Only</li>
<li>Annotation - OFF</li>
<li>Whiteboard - OFF</li>
<li>Remote Control - OFF</li>
<li>Enable waiting room - optional</li>
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<li>If the waiting room feature is enabled, attendees will see a customizable "Please standby" sort of message, letting them know class will begin soon. The meeting owner admits each participant into the meeting one at a time.</li>
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<b>Teaching with music over Zoom</b></div>
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<li><a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362153-Sharing-your-screen">Screen Sharing to share audio over Zoom</a></li>
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<li>I've had a couple classes where the instructor was using screen sharing and I've found that the bluetooth earbuds/mic audio gets compromised in favor of the clarity of the music at my end of the Zoom call. The teacher's audio was a little "tinny" and "thin" sounding but the music was clear. The exception to this has been when the teacher is wearing a wireless mic headset for their speaking audio. I believe this is because the wireless headset mic is not bluetooth audio.</li>
<li>The instructors who teach with <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016APL74G/">this style of wireless mic headset</a> are Bethany Lyons (<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/su1.asp?studioid=44367">Lyon's Den NYC</a>), Paige Elenson (<a href="https://give.africayogaproject.org/event/global-healthy-happy-hour/e280537">Healthy Happy Hour Nairobi Kenya</a>) and the instructors at <a href="https://www.indigoyoga.net/">Indigo Yoga Studio</a> (Fort Worth TX). Go take a class with one or all of them so you can hear the difference in the wireless mic audio compared to laptop audio or bluetooth earbuds.</li>
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I dropped into a Zoom yoga class recently to check out a teacher I'd been curious about (not a Baptiste yoga teacher) and came to find that the first 10 minutes of the Zoom call was filled with the participants doing the following:</div>
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<li>trying to tell everyone else to mute themselves</li>
<li>trying to tell the instructor they couldn't hear her (she wasn't using a mic and was very far away from the video and mic source)</li>
<li>trying to tell the instructor they couldn't see her because she was so far away and not well lit</li>
<li>trying to tell the other participants to stop sharing their screens</li>
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The teacher never saw any of these chat messages because once she started the Zoom call, she walked away to the front of the room and got on her mat and started talking (although nobody could hear her). Once everyone finally muted themselves, she was still hard to hear. It was a follow-along-and-watch-the-instructor-do-the-yoga yoga class which means that as a student, you had to constantly be looking over at your screen to see what was being done by the teacher. This became potentially dangerous (IMO) as the teacher moved her body into a shoulder stand. I could see other students on the screen try to mimic her shape, while twisting their necks around to see their screens. Several other students were sitting on camera, texting on their phones, not engaged in the class at all. </div>
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The class was an excellent example of how sideways a Zoom yoga class can go when simple guidelines like muting all participants on entry, disabling screen sharing, using a microphone and good lighting aren't followed. </div>
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In conclusion: when I take a Baptiste Yoga class online, I expect a similar experience to being in a Baptiste yoga studio - having the instructor <u>see me</u> and <u>teach from the methodology</u>. If the teacher is teaching from the yoga mat, <i>doing the practice</i>, they can't see me or anyone else and I might as well be working out to a YouTube video. </div>
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I'm <b>proud</b> of you. Yes <b>you</b>, and <b>you</b>. In the past two weeks I've watched as my global Baptiste Yoga community has pivoted 180<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">º</span> in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Studios who have never recorded video, never put any digital content online, teachers who have never made audio recordings of their classes - have all shifted, pivoted, reimagined, reinvented and transformed their brick and mortar spaces into digital spaces where anyone, anywhere can join in from where they are and have the experience of Baptiste Yoga.</div>
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As I sit at home, under a Safer At Home order I marvel at the plethora of choice I have for yoga classes via Zoom, Facebook Live, Instagram TV, YouTube Live and the list goes on and on! I've found myself cross referencing studio locations and time zones so that I can make an accurate list of the options I have for who's class I want to take! Even <a href="https://www.baptistefoundation.org/take-a-class-with-baron-baptiste?fbclid=IwAR16Ya5SFgAhU51-wuNX7EzLgI6hL2hVfhKBTNHmCM8LZ16xQA7y1R40r8c">Baron and his son Malachai will be co-leading a fundraising yoga class for the Baptiste Institute Sunday April 4th</a>!</div>
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I was thrilled to be able to finally take a class led by <a href="https://hoboken.realhotyoga.net/apps/mindbody/staff/100000180">Austin Kapetanakis</a> at <a href="https://hoboken.realhotyoga.net/pages/schedule-a-class?fbclid=IwAR173gX6h8ncJ8wqsxtE-ppigYoQ1pqmjDZCzUXDVKx3_DLvzy-pD-zU9T8">Real Hot Yoga</a> in Hoboken, NJ. Austin and I were at the same Level 1 & Level 2 Baptiste Programs and were also on team together, apprenticing the Level 1 Baptiste Program at Menla in 2018. I'd been bugging him to record his class audio as far back as 2016 when he started teaching at 5 Boro Power Yoga. I have plans to take classes with my friends and teachers in Austin, NYC, Cupertino, Santa Barbara, Alberta and Toronto Canada, Boston, Jacksonville, Cleveland and Columbus!!</div>
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So many teachers have written about overcoming fears of recording themselves, putting themselves online, having their way of being that the magic is in the room with the people who are there instead of putting it online. Everyone has had their status quo disrupted by forces outside their control and I'm so impressed with how everyone has reacted. Many have created their online virtual yoga offering in less than 48 hours. It is extremely impressive.</div>
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Kudos to you for embracing the change, moving with the shift and being up to something bigger than yourself. You have brought Baptiste Yoga to the people who maybe have never done yoga before through free or inexpensive virtual offerings and you continue to keep your local yoga communities alive by connecting through virtual platforms when we are not connecting in person (to slow the Covid-19 contagion)</div>
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Here is a link to my home studio - <span style="font-size: 20px;">❤️ </span><a href="https://allyallyoga.com/yoga-class-schedule/">All Y'All Yoga in Tampa, FL!</a> <span style="font-size: 20px;">❤️</span></div>
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Wash your hands, use hand sanitizer, self-isolate during these uncertain times.<br />
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Stay connected to your yoga practice with these internet streamed classes.<br />
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Online yoga classes available from all over the globe:<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXyvDBz84VZKZQYMTSoWyiQ">200+ classes with me on YouTube</a> (audio)<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCEx2FigeJoUs025y3oYx4IHaB6QMHAC8">Video classes with me on YouTube</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCEx2FigeJoU--MxzOULVzNE9du3DRWnD">Baptiste Yoga Classes on YouTube</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXyvDBz84VZKZQYMTSoWyiQ">Power Yoga Canada</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdvfZdpalkk&list=PLe852f1kKBEMgRgOI9nfRCOYBe8VLHQoB">Baptiste Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.ompractice.com/studios/heart-and-grit/?fbclid=IwAR1QVXpHeiLajhKq_WwGT6rnwUJPIA8pJ88yzXvM0gwEnL04ktCrBWttRHM">OM Practice - Heart and Grit</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/B1YogaIowa/videos/">B-1 Yoga - Iowa</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/jacqlyn.davidson/videos/10121817484742574/">Yoga Nidra with Carly Columbres</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/melissa.h.leach/posts/10159338583184186">The Hot Room - Hot Yoga Indianapolis</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.anjalipoweryoga.com/anjali-power-yoga-away?fbclid=IwAR1tALMsgyQ8nKKaVNyAuwZnpfgh4Fe2vmcqLcw_2WjiXtkSs8ea3K-Pjm8">Anjali Power Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA12Z-BJlDOVDutwyF_79Fw?fbclid=IwAR20XGdaW7sf_cHhaidRbauXScJrihX1YK_qiQsMQNpSYvTTB1T59LZMy6Q">Hot Yoga Plus</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/baptisteyogastl/videos/212691046764663/?__xts__[0]=68.ARBpW6E0bdzv4C9UVO8uy-BhHxQAbsaPTOAdBRy0F-07POyDs0TPrQa_P8Nr41Ncc9plIZZip6uOKUYyiWa7zJjCgHXDNMI1xd1-jdkGIhaQ2bLaRxec4ZlYaPfp4KCOQve66Owy4--BOUj0-vSny__fVaSTuADFMv0-mxbKkHh0MYKl5I5u6LyfNppRb-pp9YbxBzFuV86xnGxS5pC9YUqKAmt3LjG7u6k--MfDHiLbBTMg-u3Ul2cIwfi8DRHo1KohDBU9Af2dwdJaxTUI2BUaXFes7zhXfU6Vfz9l9D61Mx_qzMnz_zxF4Kz_ZuDyGxqOkb2uZUxnNXTHSy-a86OMw9Mu6iI66s3oh9SWapj3PFAMMwX1PwtapMzBXs4_CUo&__tn__=-R">Baptiste Power Yoga St. Louis</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/jacqlyn.davidson/videos/10121824097410734/">Bright Heart Yoga Studio</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10221878993553320&set=a.10200579923969892&type=3&theater">True North Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.downunderyoga.com/audio-yoga-classes/2020/3/15/sami-lea-lipman?fbclid=IwAR16ZX2vTZOEaNslYUH_j6BIAvqd2Bkxy6YVnExTmjfgM6tJzq22rfPHlh0">Down Under School of Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDncw-mveZUdsULOX47IoSA">Minnesota Power Yoga YOD Videos</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChVGUWAa8NSQfZkmxfhj-qA">Minnesota Power Yoga Yoga and Meditation Videos</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpfd8PV9xuM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0IdgmQAHcdMDQNM5qInyKeX9plbggJ-kEk92hfITUTqwXhvCad2fdOzuE&app=desktop">Minnesota Power Yoga March 6 2020</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/baptistepoweryogacs/photos/a.1014914975197353/3030756030279894/?type=3&theater">Baptiste Power Yoga Colorado Springs</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.vibeyogalounge.com/videos?fbclid=IwAR35neEGUOSZeDiqknmWscLRsIG580jCXOLn9BnoLGjrxtfQI99As0JGysA">Vibe Yoga Lounge</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.baptistepoweryogapittsburgh.com/baptisteyogaonline">Baptiste Power Yoga Pittsburgh</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7d_zOrgmVM&fbclid=IwAR20fqedRrYPIwggRXpeLlIYMZ4hDZYtR2mhtBpeNK8i7alnYXVkpiw5v60">Adrienne Smith Power of Your OM 75 min class</a><br />
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<a href="https://app.namastream.com/?fbclid=IwAR25ccjnBUxK2jTf73ypO6PGIhmsZyiXncTxP7__GVfIENDWrOA8P2BR-io#/dancing-dogs-yoga/auth/signin">Dancing Dogs Yoga (7 days free access)</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.heartandgritpoweryoga.com/">Heart & Grit Power Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?studioid=-567&tg=&vt=&lvl=&stype=-104&view=week&trn=0&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=3%2f30%2f2020&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0">Cleveland Yoga</a> & <a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?studioid=762939&tg=&vt=&lvl=&stype=-7&view=week&trn=0&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=3%2f30%2f2020&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0&loc=2">Cleveland Yoga Little Italy</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/SunStateyoga/videos/?ref=page_internal">Sun State Yoga</a> St. Petersburg FL<br />
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<a href="https://www.502poweryoga.com/virtual-classes/">502 Power Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/practiceyoganaples/videos/948130068728710/">Practice Yoga Naples</a><br />
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<a href="https://zoom.us/j/2379139374">Chelle Swierz</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHd8znUXKRYiWix07pRzsA">Fran Ciaccio</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXyktJVKSI_6kgkoLy6e9QA">Big Power Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/HalfMoonPowerYoga/photos/a.1664876977111236/2574862276112697/?type=3&theater">Half Moon Power Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/fluxpoweryoga/videos/2534922340108147/">Flux Power Yoga</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pas30fGY1sY&fbclid=IwAR0js1do8YCrIMQ6aPL13GIxvxGG6V-SMKHDHSpEsNiUTt6jzDts-hjEmbQ">Move. Nourish. Heal.</a><br />
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My personal recommendations:<br />
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Bethany Lyons - Lyon's Den NYC<br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?studioid=44367">Happy Hour M-F 5-6pm EST</a><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?studioid=44367">Sunday Service 12:00-1:30pm EST</a><br />
(choose Online Streaming as class type from Den Tribeca to sign up)<br />
All online streaming classes are free to stream, $20 to purchase link to recording, donations are accepted to support Lyon's Den.<br />
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Desirae Pierce - Breath and Body Austin TX<br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?sDate=04%2F01%2F2020&sLoc=1&sTG=22&sType=-7&sclassid=1511&studioid=9669">4/1 9:15-10:15a EST</a><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?sDate=04%2F05%2F2020&sLoc=1&sTG=22&sType=-7&sclassid=1479&studioid=9669">4/5 11-12:15p EST</a><br />
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Sami Lea Konczewski - Down Under School of Yoga Boston<br />
<a href="https://www.downunderyoga.com/boston-yoga-schedule">4/1 3-4p EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.downunderyoga.com/boston-yoga-schedule">4/3 3-4p EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.downunderyoga.com/boston-yoga-schedule">4/5 9:15-10:30a EST</a><br />
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Austin Kapetanakis - Real Hot Yoga Hoboken NJ<br />
<a href="https://hoboken.realhotyoga.net/apps/mindbody/signup/36726/confirm">3/30 6-7pm EST</a><br />
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Karen Torrone - 5 Boro Power Yoga<br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">3/30 7:30-8:30pm EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">3/31 7:30-8:30pm EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">4/1 6:15-7:00am EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">4/2 11:45-12:30pm EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">4/4 9:45-10:45am EST</a><br />
<a href="https://www.5boropoweryoga.com/schedule.html">4/5 12:15-1:00pm EST</a><br />
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Pam Rader - SHIFT Power Yoga Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada<br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_info.asp?studioid=802859">3/31 9-10pm EST</a><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_info.asp?studioid=802859">4/2 2-3pm EST</a><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_info.asp?studioid=802859">4/3 12-1pm EST</a><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_info.asp?studioid=802859">4/4 2-3pm EST</a><br />
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Brandon Compagnone - Baptiste Power Yoga Boston<br />
<a href="https://baptistepoweryogaboston.com/pages/schedule">9:15-10:15am EST M-F</a><br />
<a href="https://baptistepoweryogaboston.com/pages/schedule">9:!5-10:30am EST Sat/Sun</a><br />
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Lauren Brown - BFREE Yoga Austin TX<br />
<a href="http://bfreeyogaaustin.com/schedule.html">3/31 5-6:15 EST</a><br />
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G'Nell Price - Practice Yoga Austin<br />
<a href="https://practiceyogaaustin.com/#schedule">4/1 7-8pm EST</a><br />
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Jen - Breath and Body Austin TX<br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?sDate=04%2F03%2F2020&sLoc=1&sTG=22&sType=-7&sclassid=1655&studioid=9669">4/3 7-8am EST</a><br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?sDate=04%2F04%2F2020&sLoc=1&sTG=22&sType=-7&sclassid=1266&studioid=9669">4/4 8:30-9:30am EST</a><br />
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Lissa<br />
<a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/mainclass?studioid=762939&tg=&vt=&lvl=&stype=-7&view=week&trn=0&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=3%2f30%2f2020&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0&loc=2">Wed 4/1 5:30p EST</a><br />
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Mary Lyn Jenkins - Big Fish Power Yoga<br />
<a href="https://bigfishpoweryoga.com/jacksonville-schedule/">4/3 9:15-10:15am EST</a><br />
<a href="https://bigfishpoweryoga.com/jacksonville-schedule/">4/3 12-1pm EST</a><br />
<a href="https://bigfishpoweryoga.com/jacksonville-schedule/">4/5 4-5pm EST</a><br />
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Darin Fulks - Give Yoga Columbus, OH<br />
<a href="https://www.giveyoga.com/login/?mtredirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.giveyoga.com%2Fbook%23%2Fweek%2F25190">4/4 4-5pm EST</a><br />
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In October of 2019, I attended the <a href="https://www.baptisteyoga.com/programs/the-baptiste-power-yoga-teacher-course/">Baptiste Power Yoga Instructor Credential Course</a> held at <a href="https://www.practiceyoganaples.com/">Practice Yoga in Naples, Florida</a>. I had the pleasure of spending the weekend with 31 other Baptiste yogis as we learned how to create an extraordinary (yoga) classroom experience.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Coach/Luca-Richards-Yoga-1308441799250649/">Luca Richards</a> was our program facilitator and this is my takeaway from the weekend program. I'm phrasing my writing in the terms of "I" rather than "you".<br />
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The degree to which I will be able to connect with my students is proportional to my ability to stay out of my head and come from the awareness that all humans are intrinsically connected and have the same <a href="https://www.cnvc.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/CNVC-needs-inventory.pdf">basic needs</a>. Connecting to other people does not come from my thinking. It comes from being present to the other person and listening to understand. Connecting happens outside of <i><b>me</b></i>. It happens out <b><i>there</i></b>, where the other people are. My awareness of the relatedness I have with people is happening wherever I am, not just when I'm in a yoga studio. Each interaction I have is an opportunity to connect, cultivate a relationship or observe our relatedness.<br />
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The concept of "bridges and pathways" was discussed. The example of a <b><i>bridge</i></b> was that if I can get my students to understand that the body alignment of heels up and over toes is applicable in crescent lunge, fish, high plank, low plank then I have accomplished something very powerful. A <b><i>pathway</i></b> is a new future, not built on the past or my expectations or how I showed up or how other people showed up. A pathway could be workshopping a pose in a new way with props that allows for play and space for what is possible.<br />
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As part of this program, I've been asked to teach all 11 sequences and all of the poses inside those sequences. It was explained to us that something gets created and generated by me teaching the sequence and my level of commitment to leading Journey Into Power as it is written. In each of the 11 sequences, each pose has a peak and is made of a beginning, middle and end. The sequence also represents a whole range of motion for the body. The practice of Journey Into Power can be scaled up or down as needed. The scaling is done by adding or subtracting intensity, range of motion or the length of time for practice.<br />
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Instructing an effective class begins by me bringing the practice alive in peoples bodies and minds. The level of power I have in the classroom is dictated by how much time it takes me to transform intention into reality in the student's experience in real time. When the intention of each sequence of Journey Into Power is realized, the yogi is left in a renewed experience of power, vitality and freedom.<br />
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Class begins by me acknowledging the participants for being there¹, who they are for me², who I am for them³ and what we will be up to on the mat today⁴. An example of this could look like: "Thank you all for making time for yourselves and coming to your mat today¹. You are an inspiration to me by simply showing up². I will be your accountability partner today³ as we focus on core engagement throughout this next 60 minutes of Journey Into Power⁴."<br />
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Timing of the Journey Into Power sequence was discussed as we worked through each of the 11 sequences. The key for the Integration sequence was for me to <b><i>get the students moving</i></b>. Once I get the physicalness of the practice implanted, what starts to happen is that I'm allowing for the students to have the experience of <b><i>their practice</i></b>, an experience of their <b><i>self</i></b>. This is an important point so I will restate it another way. The student's experience on their mat is of their self, <b><u>not of me</u></b>. Their most powerful experience will be in <b>their body</b> in <b>their practice</b>, not in what I <i>say</i>, who I <i>quote</i> or what <i>song</i> I might play.<br />
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For reference, here is the chart showing the timing for a 60, 75 and 90 minute Journey Into Power class. I also <a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2019/08/baptiste-journey-into-power-yoga.html">blogged about this timing and a chart that several other yoga teachers have used to guide their teaching</a>.<br />
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<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">INTEGRATION</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">2</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">2</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">2</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">AWAKENING</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">12</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">VITALITY</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">EQUANIMITY</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">GROUNDING</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">IGNITING</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">STABILITY</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">3</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">OPENING</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">RELEASE</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">REJUVENATION</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 16pt;"><td class="xl65" height="21" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16pt; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">DEEP REST</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">6</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8</td><td class="xl66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10</td></tr>
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Right away I saw how I'd been been leading less effective classes by putting my focus onto what<b> I</b> was saying that I hoped was powerful or insightful. I'd been spending too much time speaking during Integration. By trying to have a unique file name when I uploaded the class recording, (<a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/p/online-audio-classes.html">I often record my classes and post them online</a>) I was putting the focus on <b>me</b> and what <b>I </b>wanted from the class. I now number each Journey Into Power class sequentially (rather than have an preconceived idea for a class title before class starts). This frees me up to teach from the Baptiste methodology and speak to what is happening in the room in real time.<br />
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I made a list of guidelines from this program in the form of <b><i><u>do</u></i></b> instead of <b style="font-style: italic;">do not </b>and in my own words.</div>
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<b>Effective Instruction of the Journey Into Power in a Baptiste Power Yoga Class</b></div>
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<li>Have a clear purpose for playing music if you do play music</li>
<li>Build in active rest and recovery into a beginners class</li>
<li>Keep beginner students in the vinyasa, allow them to have their experience (whatever that is)</li>
<li>Use essential language. Movement<b> ></b> body part<b> ></b> direction</li>
<li>Teach to the middle-strongest students and up. Their energy will empower newer students in the room.</li>
<li>Offer a challenge to your students by giving them space to take themselves to their edge (whatever that looks like for them from moment to moment)</li>
<li>Teach from Journey Into Power as written</li>
<li>During Integration, get the students <b><i>moving</i></b></li>
<li>Be with the students in the room and keep the energy moving forward.</li>
<li>Allow for <i>flow</i> in Awakening by removing obstructions to movement</li>
<li>Organize the students mats with the more experienced students at the front of the room (newer students learn by creating shapes with their bodies)</li>
<li>Maintain safe practice space between students mats front to back (a minimum spacing of 12 inches)</li>
<li>Reestablish drishti, ujjayi and foundation in the Grounding sequence</li>
<li>Establish trust with your students by giving them a clear measure of how many repetitions or breaths will occur for each pose.</li>
<li>Count sequentially with the end number first, then count up 1, 2, 3, 4.</li>
<li>Switch sides on the second to last number as the transition between sides</li>
<li>Room lights are on and delivery strong through Opening sequence</li>
<li>Leave people in the experience of themselves</li>
<li>In a 75 minute class there is time for one alignment demonstration</li>
<li>In a 90 minute class there is time for introducing 2 alignment demonstrations (two minutes max)</li>
<li>When sealing the practice, acknowledge your students after the three OMs are complete and all the students' eyes are <b>open</b>. This is an <u>opportunity for connectedness</u>, acknowledge them and make eye contact.</li>
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<b>Feedback</b></div>
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<li>Ask if a teacher is open to receiving feedback</li>
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<li>Make your feedback winnable (something concrete that can be modified)</li>
<li>Avoid the keep / stop / start style of feedback and focus on "Is it winnable?"</li>
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It was said that the best place to learn new skills and knowledge is inside of where you'll be applying it - in real situations. That being said, I agree with this and I would <b><i>highly recommend</i></b> you take the <b><a href="https://www.baptisteyoga.com/programs/the-baptiste-power-yoga-teacher-course/">Baptiste Power Yoga Instructor Course</a></b> if it happening nearby. Reading this blog post of my thoughts is <u>no substitute </u>for spending a weekend in the work with several dozen other Baptiste yogis! ❤️</div>
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<i style="background-color: yellow;"><u>This is <b>not</b> a paid advertisement</u></i>, I just love <a href="https://www.mandabees.com/">Manda Bees headbands</a>. If you're like me, the wispy hairs that don't stay put when you're sweating your face off in a hot yoga class drive you absolutely crazy when you're trying to keep your drishti on point and stay cool in the face of a long Warrior Two hold.<br />
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I've purchased a few different colors/styles of <a href="https://www.mandabees.com/">Manda bees headbands</a> and they're all super cute, stay put and do not pull your hair or give you a headache. They're 100% what they say. No rolling up, no slipping, no pulling and no headaches. It just stays put!<br />
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If you've been using those strips of elastic to hold your hair wisps back - switch up your hair management to something that supports a small business entrepreneur and lets you choose from basically a thousand colors and patterns. Everything from <a href="https://www.mandabees.com/collections/flawless-solid/products/basicblack">basic antimicrobial black</a> to <a href="https://www.mandabees.com/collections/patterns/products/aquata">rainbow mermaid scales</a> and they even make <a href="https://www.mandabees.com/collections/wide">extra wide headbands</a> if that's your jam.Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-78316085407646073772019-10-25T21:08:00.002-04:002020-02-13T13:35:03.771-05:0040 Days To Personal Revolution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm currently enrolled in an online 40 Days To Personal Revolution facilitator training. As part of the 40 Days program, participants are provided recordings to practice yoga at home if they cannot make it to the studio and recordings to use for the meditation practice of the program.<br />
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I recorded these meditations to align with the themes of the 40 Days To Personal Revolution and I hope that they will be of use to others who are leading or participating in a 40 Days program.<br />
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<a href="http://jentechyoga.libsyn.com/40-days-to-personal-revolution-week-1-presence">40 Days To Personal Revolution Week 1 Presence</a><br />
<a href="http://jentechyoga.libsyn.com/40-days-to-personal-revolution-week-2-vitality">40 Days To Personal Revolution Week 2 Vitality</a><br />
<a href="http://jentechyoga.libsyn.com/40-days-to-personal-revolution-week-3-equanimity">40 Days To Personal Revolution Week 3 Equanimity</a><br />
<a href="http://jentechyoga.libsyn.com/40-days-to-personal-revolution-week-4-restoration">40 Days To Personal Revolution Week 4 Restoration</a><br />
<a href="http://jentechyoga.libsyn.com/40-days-to-personal-revolution-week-5-centering">40 Days To Personal Revolution Week 5 Centering</a><br />
<a href="http://jentechyoga.libsyn.com/40-days-to-personal-revolution-week-6-triumph">40 Days To Personal Revolution Week 6 Triumph</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXyvDBz84VZKZQYMTSoWyiQ">These are also on my YouTube page as well</a> as in <a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/p/online-audio-classes.html">all the places you find podcasts online</a>.<br />
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As part of the facilitator training, watching these video segments were part of our homework:<br />
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<li><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA">Simon Sinek | Start With Why -- How Great Leaders Inspire Action</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIho2S0ZahI"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Julian Treasure: How to Speak so People Will Listen</span></a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saXfavo1OQo" style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Wry: Power of Listening</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o" style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/WATCH?V=G3VSYBT1ACO"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rebecca Kleinberger - Why you don't like the sound of your own voice</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZluriQUzE" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amy Cuddy - Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1vskiVDwl4" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Celeste Headlee - 10 ways to have a better conversation</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIUMJ6rQCN8" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meditate to Marianne Williamson - Our Deepest Fear</span></a></span></li>
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Some months ago I came across <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/burning-man/online/scott-froschauer">this post</a> on Facebook about the artwork of Scott Froschauer. I got inspired based upon the artwork of his I saw and made some stickers via <a href="https://www.stickermule.com/unlock?ref_id=6651170701&utm_medium=link&utm_source=invite">Sticker Mule</a> which have a decidedly Baptiste Yoga spin on them. Some of them are pictured above, the best of them I've uploaded to Flickr as PNG files so that you can use them as you see fit.<br />
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I also uploaded the other Baptiste Yoga artwork I've made into this Flickr photo album. Click through to see all of the images in each of these Flickr albums!<br />
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Recently I saw this posting in a Facebook group for Certified Baptiste teachers. First off,<b> this</b> is <b>David's</b> first post to the group and my reaction was along the lines of "<b><i>WHY HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS AS A TOOL UNTIL TODAY??</i></b>" What an amazing first post!!!! When I thought it couldn't get any better, <b>Brittany</b> posted a video of a version of the timing tool she'd gotten from a friend who was part of the Fit To Lead program. The beginning of the <a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2016/08/journey-into-power-sequence-all-poses.html">Journey Into Power</a> timing clock is designed to be rotated to wherever the class start time is!!</div>
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Then as if that wasn't enough, <b>Alice</b> posted her clock face charts for 75 and 90 minute JIP class timing! Her clock face timing didn't include the <b>Release</b> portion of JIP so I took the liberty of taking a minute here and there from the other portions of JIP to give some time to <b>Release</b>. It's a portion of JIP I often find myself "not having enough time for".</div>
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I took these various clock face timing tools and re-created them in Photoshop so that if you want to make your own rotating clock timing tool, you can! These JIP timing "clock faces" can be printed on transparent film (either for laser jet printers or ink jet printers), cut to fit the clock face blank (below) and secure them together with a paper fastener in the middle of the clock. Then you can spin the class start time to any point on the clock face! Of course this is a guideline for JIP. Teach to what is happening in the room, but this clock face may help you strengthen your skill of knowing how much time is still available to you and your students.</div>
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-updated Nov 2019 after attending the weekend course: Baptiste Power Yoga Teacher Course.Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107624786814145982noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602849809073911759.post-28065072163607467162019-08-07T15:03:00.001-04:002020-05-12T10:26:55.686-04:00Using A Wired Headset With A Mic To Record Your Teaching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />This is a follow up to my original "<a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2017/06/how-to-record-yourself-teaching-yoga.html">How To Record Yourself Teaching Yoga</a>" post, now with another (probably simpler) way to record the audio of you teaching. In my first post, I briefly touched on using an older Apple or Android device to record the audio of your teaching by using a wired headset. You probably have a few wired headsets from previous phones you've bought over the years, you just need to make sure your headset has a microphone in it.<br /><br />
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Newer phones now require adapters to use 3.5mm wired headsets because <a href="https://www.cnet.com/pictures/best-phones-without-headphone-jacks/">they've stopped putting headphone jacks into phone</a>s. Which adapter you need depends on what kind of phone you have.<br />
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For this example, I'm using an old pair of Apple headphones which also have a microphone. I taped the wire from the mic to the earbud back onto itself to make it neater. The earbuds still work so I didn't want to cut them off of the headset wire. If the earbuds didn't work anymore, I could cut them off so the microphone would be the only part of the headset wires I'd use.<br /><br />
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I slipped a tiny binder clip over the microphone wires so I could clip the mic to my shirt.<br /><br />
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<br />You could any number of things to keep the mic secured to your shirt. Safety pin, duct tape, gaffers tape, a clothespin - basically anything you've got on hand to keep the mic securely fastened to your neckline so your recording won't be muffled by your clothing.<br />
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Apple devices have the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-memos/id1069512134">Voice Memos application</a> already installed by default. I downloaded and installed a free <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.media.bestrecorder.audiorecorder&hl=en">Voice Recorder application</a> on the Motorola Android device I used in this example.<br />
<br />The device you're using to record your audio should be put into Airplane mode, have the screen locked and then you can tuck it inside the waistband of your leggings or pocket of your shorts while you're recording your teaching. The device you use to record your teaching audio <b><i>cannot</i></b> be the same device you're using to play music into the studio (if you teach with music) because it is not possible to stream bluetooth music from a device and record an audio input to the same device at the same time. You probably have an older phone you're not using which can be repurposed into a voice recorder.<br />
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Here are the steps you can use on an Apple device to use the Voice Memos application to record your teaching, save the file, export the file off your phone so that you can share the recording with other people. I find it easiest to use Dropbox to save files from my devices, but there are many options (Google drive, AirDrop). I would caution against trying to send your recording via <b>Mail</b> or <b>Message</b> because the file size of your recording may be larger than what is supported by <b>Message</b> or <b>Mail</b>.<br />
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Here are the steps with an Android device as an example:<br /><br />
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Once you have the audio recording copied onto your laptop or PC, you can refer to my post on "<a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2017/06/how-to-edit-your-yoga-teaching-audio.html">How To Edit Your Yoga Teaching Audio File</a>" so that it will be ready for sharing with others.<br />
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If you are interested in sharing your audio recordings as a podcast, here is a post I wrote "<a href="http://www.jentechyoga.com/2017/04/sharing-yoga-teaching-audio-recordings.html">Sharing Yoga Teaching Audio Recordings As Podcasts</a>". If you're not interested in paying for your audio to be hosted/shared as a podcast, you can always upload your recordings to <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/willmartinyoga/">Mixcloud</a> like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/willmartinyoga/">Will Martin</a> is doing.<br />
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