On Saturday 24th September 2022, my friend Andy and I held a yoga workshop labelled 'Take your Backbend to a New Level'. \u00a0Finding a workshop theme is not always easy as it depends on your students\u2019 abilities and of course, yours! It is a bit of guesswork and after much thinking we agreed that backbends were a good choice as many students fear them due to the nature of the poses: bending your spine backwards means letting go of fear and trusting your own strength: easier said than done!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the theme agreed, I started designing a class based on the peak pose: wheel pose \/ Urdhva Dhanurasana or Chakrasana, the ultimate back bend pose in my opinion. Both Andy and I first came up with ideas of our own and then we met up to discuss them. Together we came up with a great class plan which we felt would be accessible and challenging to all our students. Once the date and location were agreed and booked, we just needed to practice the new workshop plan, on our own and together and advertise it at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once advertised on social media the workshop booked up very quickly and we were excited to teach the full class last Saturday at the Wraysbury Village Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We demonstrated first and then supported all the students to get into difficult and challenging backbend poses working towards getting into the peak pose: wheel \/ Urdhva Dhanurasana. The workshop was run in a friendly and relaxed manner, there was no pressure to get into any poses, but they all had a go which was brilliant to see! They all drew courage deep down and made Andy and me very proud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two hour workshop flew by because it is so much fun to run workshops helping students push themselves into poses that they consider too advanced for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hearing the comments straight after the workshop, it was clear they all enjoyed themselves and achieved far more than they thought they would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything went perfectly, we had the right number of students, the location and space were ideal for the workshop, all the students got on very well, laughing, having fun and improving their back bend practice during the class. Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following this success Andy and I are already thinking about our next workshop! We can\u2019t wait to bring fun and joy to our students and see them grow in confidence with their yoga practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you would like to join our next workshop, please do let me know so I can add you to our distribution list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoping to see you at one of my workshops very soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Namaste<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christel \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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