1. What are you interested in gaining from the 300 hour Lotus Grad School program? Please be specific on what you are most interested in learning from us. What aspects of your teaching would you like to improve?
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2. What inspired you to take your first yoga class and what kept you
coming back? What did your life look like then and what does it look
like now? How has your relationship with Yoga and yourself changed since then?
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3. In order to teach, it is essential to be a student. What have you
been learning about yourself lately?
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4. It takes time and a lot of showing up to cultivate confidence as a
yoga teacher. What area(s) would you like to have more confidence in?
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5. What part of your practice and teaching do you feel the most
confident in (i.e., asana, mantra pranayama, prenatal, ayurveda,
sanskrit, restorative)?
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6. What have been some of the greatest challenges that you've had to
overcome in your life, and how have these difficulties affected your practice and teaching? How has yoga allowed you to heal? Please explain.
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7. What does your personal or home practice look and feel like? Please
be specific. What books, teachers and sources do you turn to for inspiration and information?
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8. Are the classes you teach generally the same, or do they differ? Explain how they change. What does the loose shape of your class look like? Do you teach from your home practice? Where do you teach and how many classes, including privates, do you teach a week?
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9. When and where did you do your 200-hour certification? Have you done other trainings since then? If so, which trainings and where did you complete them?
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10. How often do you take class and where? What draws you to these people and places?
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11. Where do you find satsang? Do you feel you have a good support system with positive people around you? Explain.
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12. Is there an area in your life and/or practice that you avoid, either because you think you're not good at it or it's challenging and even provocative? How does this resistance show up for you?
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13. Where or how does your own ego show up in your practice?
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14. Do you regularly engage in karma yoga, or service? Share your experiences.
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15. Do you have any physical injuries, or have you had any over the past few years? How do you maintain injury prevention and healing, and continue to teach? Have you had time away from practicing and teaching? Explain.
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16. What are the most common injuries you see in students? Do you have the ability to help guide them through this time, or do you direct them to seek medical attention or the help of a healer?
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17. Please sequence a class moving us toward Hanumanasana.
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18. Capturing your essence, please describe yourself as a teacher.
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19. In your own words, how do you express devotion and gratitude, and what does liberation mean for you?
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20. What is the importance, relevancy, impact of yoga on today's society? How has it evolved and where do you see it headed in the future?
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