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Trying to catch up on my back issues of YJ - read this a few weeks ago and found a lot of good stuff in it.
There was a short article about teaching yoga to deaf students that I thought was really interesting, since that's something I'd never really thought about, but a deaf person could walk into my yoga class anytime. There are some simple things a yoga teacher can do to make a class more accessible for a deaf student, like making eye contact, demonstrating poses, and using touch to guide. These are easy things to do that wouldn't disrupt my usual teaching rhythm at all but that I wouldn't have thought of on my own, so I was grateful that this article broadened my awareness. Definitely tore that one out for future reference.
There was an article on chair pose that I really appreciated, since it wasn't too long ago that I was struggling a bit with chair pose and did a write-up for the yoga blog. I can see myself coming back to that article for reference later. I was also really interested in the moon salutation sequence - I haven't tried it yet, and it could end up being a little flowy for me, but it's definitely something I want to try.
I was also really interested in the article on yoga and religion. I really appreciated that YJ put together a panel to discuss this. After reading the article, I went back to the March 2012 issue that I'd read a few weeks earlier, and there were several letters from readers about this article, some of whom really liked it. One reader noted that the article might have had more depth if the panel had included some actual religious leaders (priests, nuns, rabbis), rather than just yogis, which was an interesting point. I was glad, though, that Brooke Boon, the founder of Holy Yoga, a Christian ministry group, was included on the panel. I'm really interested in the intersections of yoga with personal faith, and the article gave me some new perspectives and talking points. I wish YJ made its back issues available online.
There was a short article about teaching yoga to deaf students that I thought was really interesting, since that's something I'd never really thought about, but a deaf person could walk into my yoga class anytime. There are some simple things a yoga teacher can do to make a class more accessible for a deaf student, like making eye contact, demonstrating poses, and using touch to guide. These are easy things to do that wouldn't disrupt my usual teaching rhythm at all but that I wouldn't have thought of on my own, so I was grateful that this article broadened my awareness. Definitely tore that one out for future reference.
There was an article on chair pose that I really appreciated, since it wasn't too long ago that I was struggling a bit with chair pose and did a write-up for the yoga blog. I can see myself coming back to that article for reference later. I was also really interested in the moon salutation sequence - I haven't tried it yet, and it could end up being a little flowy for me, but it's definitely something I want to try.
I was also really interested in the article on yoga and religion. I really appreciated that YJ put together a panel to discuss this. After reading the article, I went back to the March 2012 issue that I'd read a few weeks earlier, and there were several letters from readers about this article, some of whom really liked it. One reader noted that the article might have had more depth if the panel had included some actual religious leaders (priests, nuns, rabbis), rather than just yogis, which was an interesting point. I was glad, though, that Brooke Boon, the founder of Holy Yoga, a Christian ministry group, was included on the panel. I'm really interested in the intersections of yoga with personal faith, and the article gave me some new perspectives and talking points. I wish YJ made its back issues available online.
