Why Ongoing Professional Development Is an Ethical Imperative in Youth Yoga We cannot teach young people as if nothing has changed. The world they are growing up in is not the world we trained in. It is not even the world of five years ago. It is faster, louder, more fragmented, more exposed. Identity is
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Teaching young people yoga, sometimes I am aware of a clash between my values and the values of the school or the establishment I am teaching in. I suggest to my students the ideas of collaboration vs competition, love vs fear, self care vs pushing the boundaries. Sometimes I have to be careful how I
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As practitioners ourselves, we know only all to well, how yoga can assuage feelings of anxiety, calm our nerves and generally uplift us. Why would it be any different for young people? This was my thought as I calmly and confidently strode into my first yoga class for teens ten years ago and was met
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