Safe Yoga Essay

Yoga Essay 3 – How and why teaching method would be safe for every student who attends your classes. Establish ten safety guides to prevent injuries in your class.
Teaching highly effective yoga classes requires the inclusion of optional safety variations. This not only protects the practitioners in the class but also protects the Yoga instructor. As a yoga instructor, your primary duty is to ensure the continuing safety of your students. These guidelines transfer the burden of student safety from being the sole responsibility of the yoga teacher to the students themselves. A foundation of set guidelines helps students safeguard their own safety, which also gives teachers peace of mind.
The guidelines I will establish are:
1. Proper Attire

Students should use their yoga class as a time to listen intently to their bodies. One of our goals in yoga is to reduce suffering. That means we pay attention to the physical sensations in our bodies, and we watch for good ones and bad ones. Good sensations: feeling a muscle stretch or work, shaking, trembling, sweating, or the heart rate elevating. Those are sensations that for most of us are okay, and a symbol that we’re building strength or doing work. Bad sensations: stabbing pain, throbbing pain, aching pain, burning pain, tingling, pressure in the face or throat, gasping, shortness of breath. These are signals that we need to back off or try something else. Only you are in your body, and only you know what sensations you’re

Always start yoga with warm-up exercises
The warm-up exercises done prior to a yoga session will help loosen and relax all your muscles while promoting better blood circulation. Using different methods such as, Stretching, contracting, swinging from side to side are all good ways to increase flexibility of the muscles.
7. Proper Alignment
No pose should be done without proper alignment, even if it means not doing the pose at all. The presence of an intense sharp, shooting pain is a sign that an asana was forced or done without proper alignment. Effective hands-on assisting asks for your full attention to the student. As a teacher, we have the option to teach through words and to use our hands in the context of physically assisting students as a way to reinforce the primary action of the pose, deepen the pose or help a student who may be struggling with understanding the alignment. When we approach the student and in the actual assist, it’s critical for safety that we focus on the student and his or her reaction to our touch. This can be challenging, as we also need to keep the class moving forward. A general rule of thumb: if you can’t be there for the student, best to avoid