Kathryn Mushala

After ending a 15 year dance background and taking part of several years of personal yoga practice I decided to complete my 200 RYT in March of 2013. This 9 month course through Yoga on High gave me the skills to provide the following:

• Teach breath awareness to beginners
• Understand how to sequence poses from warm ups though deep relaxation
• Analyze a pose and break it into focused points of emphasis in order to introduce it to students  in increments
• Protect students with common functional or structural problems from harm
• Use props creatively
• Teach basic principles of alignment
• Step a pose up or down in complexity to accommodate students with differing capabilities
• Ask your own body a question about the beginner’s body and answer it
• Diversify your teaching approach to accommodate students with different learning styles
• “Read” a student’s body and make proper adjustments
• Teach simple restorative poses
• Guide relaxations
• Understand classroom ethics and professionalism
• Understand general principles of anatomy as they apply to teaching yoga
• Be familiar with basic theoretical principles of yoga philosophy