| Doing yoga at home is not just for yoga teachers | | | | … trying to figure out how to effectively teach |
| and hard-core yogis. It's what we should all be | | | | yoga online without compromising the integrity of |
| striving to do, in my opinion. Now, with the internet, | | | | yoga. There have been many ups and downs along |
| it's easier than ever … but potentially dangerous | | | | the way, and now, based on the feedback I get, I'd |
| too! | | | | say that I'm doing a fairly good job … at least |
| The internet didn't exist though, when I first started | | | | compared to what else is available online so far. |
| yoga. Perhaps that was a good thing. The only real | | | | I still teach yoga classes because I believe there is |
| option (to me at least) was going to India … the | | | | much to be gained from them. But my experience |
| source, which is exactly what I did, spending years in | | | | has shown me how limiting they can be, especially for |
| yoga ashrams and studying with various yoga | | | | teaching students how to safely and confidently |
| teachers along the way. | | | | practice yoga at home, on their own. |
| But still, I felt like something was missing. It wasn't | | | | The Internet has opened up a whole new realm of |
| until I found Swami Gitananda's "Yoga Step By Step" | | | | possibilities for yoga, but even though there are tens |
| correspondence course that the "yoga lightbulb(s) | | | | of thousands of yoga websites online already, most |
| finally came on. Yeah, I know … but this was no | | | | yoga teachers who created them still seem to be |
| ordinary yoga book. It was a yoga masterpiece, and | | | | stuck in their yoga classes … yet to realize the |
| my understanding of yoga has never been the same | | | | great teaching potential of this global medium. |
| since. | | | | Teaching people how to practice yoga at home, |
| But what I really got from it was an awareness of | | | | from home, I think, is the way of the yoga future. If |
| how much is missing from yoga in the modern yoga | | | | only just a few yoga teachers start to realize how |
| class approach, and how, when done skilfully, so | | | | to use the internet to effectively share the teachings |
| much more about yoga can be taught on paper and | | | | of yoga and get more people off the couch and |
| with visuals. Now with the video capabilities of the | | | | doing yoga at home, then that future looks pretty |
| internet, we can leap even further. | | | | enlightened to me. |
| I've been working on that for the past few years | | | | |