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What are your top 3 prerequisites for good yoga teacher?
For me it is:
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Hands-on assistance and correction of my asanas
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A calming/ peaceful manner, no ego
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Spirituality or a spiritual element to the class[/QUOTE]
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Being a very good listener and being able to impart advice with a non-judgmental attitude (regarding ALL aspects of Yoga and not just Hatha Yoga or else Yoga becomes nothing more than just glorified physical exercise).
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Being as flexible in mind as they are in body (this is hard to explain, but they shouldn’t care if somebody can’t pay up this week, or can’t attend next week due to personal reasons or any of that…I won’t go so far as to say that the Yoga teacher should be calm, peaceful and ‘ego-less’ but being very polite, considerate and understanding goes a hell of a long way or as ‘Inner Athlete’ said…just having a lot of personal integrity).
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Being fully trained as a Yoga Teacher (and that includes all of the ‘hands on’ stuff, having total knowledge of the subject and is able do all of the asanas very well themselves).
Some people like a ‘spiritual element’ to the class while others get turned off by it. I have seen that.