I live in Los Angeles, where the yoga community flourishes and new yoga “stars” emerge almost daily. It’s a great place to live and great place to practice yoga. The available yoga education is high quality and vast. However, among all this competition there is an overwhelming push of the “right way” or “the best way” onto the students. It seems to counter the essence of a yoga experience. Most of us, including myself, will say any way of yoga is a good way of yoga as long as the yoga is being lived. So, the Los Angeles yogis move through their practice and follow the teachers they resonate with – the ones that teach to that student’s particular body composition and interests. Until they experience the Foundation Weekend with Leeann Carey Yoga.
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The Foundation Weekend with Leeann Carey Yoga transforms your understanding of yoga in such a way that you can apply this new understanding to any class and any teacher. You really learn to look at the individual body in each individual pose and then how that translates into your own unique body. It is a weekend geared toward learning to teach and growing your own practice.
I often hear from new teachers that becoming a teacher is taking away from their personal practice. I most definitely went through this experience and it was disheartening. I chose to teach yoga because I loved to practice yoga, yet I was practicing with less focus – always attempting to translate what I was experiencing into a language for my students. The Foundation Weekend was the first teacher training I attended that really focused on both. I had major breakthroughs in my own personal practice and I was able to see in many other bodies how to guide my individual students toward their own breakthroughs.
For me, it was the Key Positioning Skills (KPS) specifically that provided me with that language. I’ve said before that the KPS’s are like anatomy in the form of poetry. By describing the physical position of the body in relation to another part of that same body, the students is left with a level of inquiry that exists when interpreting a poem. These skills provide people with the freedom to apply the instructional verses to their own bodies, constantly changing and constantly up for reassessment. They speak specifically to what is happening in the individual, not what is happening in a typical body. My teaching, as a result has become much more refined and much less generic – which is often a challenge in a group class. Check out our videos featuring the Leeann Carey Yoga Key Positioning Skills and write me a comment – tell me what you think. Imagine you and a group of other teachers practicing and viewing these alignment skills over the course of 3 days. The weekend will transform the way you teach and practice!
my Earth training
To bring it back to the picture of Los Angeles that I created in the beginning of this post, I find that the Leeann Carey Yoga has helped me sort through all the different styles and techniques of instruction out there. I’m finding that what wasn’t working for me before, is now working, all as a result of a new perspective. Yet all the prior study only enhanced my understanding of the Leeann Carey Yoga just as any future training I experience will also be enhanced by what I learned at my Foundation Weekend. I hope to see you all at an Foundation Weekend so I can share with you what has been a powerful addition to my own yoga education.
