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This a question that has posed a challenge to all kinds of educators since the COVID pandemic began and schools and universities closed. From the perspective of yoga teachers, it is particularly challenging given the importance “presence” in successful yoga training courses. At the Teen Yoga Foundation our experience in this area actually predates COVID,

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COVID, digital teaching, education, online training, pedagogy, presence, remote learning, teacher training, technology, yoga, yoga certification

Dec 18 2018

Shining the light on yoga in schools – Part 3

News & Organisation Updates

Here’s the final part to Netia Mayman’s presentation from Instil. Enjoy! “How young people develop I wish, as a newly qualified teacher I had understood that the girl constantly looking behind her was hypervigilant; that a boy’s apparent lack of remorse, cruelty to others and failure to take responsibility of his actions was a symptom

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adolescent development, classroom strategies, education, Instill, positive, pranayama, reinforcement, teacher training, trauma, wellbeing, yoga in schools

Dec 4 2018

Shining the light of yoga on schools – Adapting and accommodating 21st century knowledge to ancient insight by Netia Prema Mayman

News & Organisation Updates, Yoga in schools

Netia Prema Mayman spoke at our recent Instil conference. She has kindly given us her presentation to share. We will break it into sections so you can absorb the most important parts in bits. Be sure to check back every week for the full presentation. Here is the start of it: “The presentation will cover:

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Oct 25 2018

Why Teens Need Yoga More Than Ever

All Blog Posts, Teen Yoga

On my way to the second day of the Yoga for Teens training course, I reflect over the common themes that always come up on these days, 28 people from all over Europe, united in one vision to support young people with yoga, have all noticed the same thing – young people are increasingly anxious,

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adolescence, community, Europe, mental health, stress, teacher training, teen anxiety, wellbeing, yoga for teens, yoga values

Dec 1 2017

Teen Yoga Alert

News & Organisation Updates

It has come to our attention that there is a training programme in the UK that uses our logo and our manual but is not accredited by us. To be clear, the only teacher trainers running the accredited full TeenYoga course are Charlotta Martinus, Yvonne Morey, Helen Clare and Sarah O’Connor. If you have received

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accreditation, certification, community, fraud, official trainers, quality assurance, teacher training, teenyoga, warning, yoga standards

Jul 18 2014

Giving and Loving

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When we find our dharma, life flows. It doesn’t always flow, so its nice when we fall into our dharma. Dharma in yoga means the path you are meant to walk, the one you find easy and fulfilling, the effortless path which gives so many people joy. Recently, running the Universal Yoga Teacher Training Course

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community, dharma, flow, Give, giving, joy, love, purpose, Serve, service, Sivananda, teacher training, yoga philosophy

May 8 2014

Mindful teachers = mindful students?

News & Organisation Updates, Yoga in schools

Increasingly, schoolteachers come on the TeenYoga course. I was told by a teacher trainer once that a good teacher can teach anything. I believe this is true. Getting school teachers excited about yoga and practising themselves is the best way to inspire children to practise as a form of self care. (see Ingunn Hagen’s Review

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