Yoga instructor is the disseminator of yoga and the main window for yoga practitioners to understand and learn yoga. Only a yoga teacher has good professional quality and comprehensive quality, can he correctly guide the practitioners and ultimately benefit them. Among them, major is the most basic requirement for a yoga teacher, and yoga is a serious and relaxing thing. Only when the yoga teacher has comprehensive professional basic knowledge and solid basic skills can you apply it freely in teaching, in a simple way, step by step, bring your students the same feelings, better explain and show yoga to your students, and make pertinence and effectiveness according to the age, gender, physical condition and practice purpose of the practitioners.
Second, improve the knowledge structure.
Yoga is a very old practice, which combines philosophy, medicine and art. There is a scientific theory behind any yoga style, so it requires yoga teachers to establish a knowledge structure with scientific yoga knowledge as the core, giving full consideration to and organically integrating philosophy, medical theory and artistic knowledge, which is the foundation of yoga teachers' foothold.
Third, good ideological and professional ethics.
A teacher's teaching will affect students' cognition and evaluation of this industry, so good moral character, conduct, personality and sense of responsibility are the important quality foundation for yoga teachers to engage in guidance work, so that they can communicate with students with good and healthy emotions, especially for beginners of yoga. Due to the pain in practice, teachers' guidance and relief will make students feel safe and trust psychologically.
Fourth, extensive knowledge of educational disciplines.
The core job of a yoga teacher is teaching. Both students and members can skillfully and scientifically organize teaching and successfully complete teaching. Only by mastering the skills of yoga teaching can we enhance the scientific nature of the course and let the other party have a better yoga experience. Secondly, the expression of language and emotion is both communication and guidance.
Teaching notes 1. Pay attention to the psychological characteristics of early yoga students?
1. At first, students perceived the characteristics of things mainly by sight and hearing. Before class, they should carefully arrange, design and decorate the venue, which will help to improve their interest in class. ?
2. At the beginning, students' unintentional attention dominated and their attention was easily distracted. Therefore, yoga teachers should explain concisely, vividly and vividly, demonstrate correctly and beautifully, and use diversified and interesting methods to cultivate students' intentional attention. ?
3. At the beginning, students' spatial perception ability is weak and just developed. Yoga teachers pay attention to using gestures and language to guide students' practice in teaching. ?
4. At the beginning, students' memory is mainly mechanical, so the explanation in teaching should be concise and easy to understand, but attention should also be paid to running through action terms. Visualization and interest in explanation can help students deepen their memory. Teachers should make full use of intuitive teaching to attract students with vivid, beautiful and correct postures, and pay attention to explaining and showing different aspects, difficulties and key points of actions in demonstrations. ?
5. Pay attention to and guide the initial students' will independence, initiative and persistence. Yoga teachers should pay attention to the teaching methods of encouragement, praise and prompt, but at the same time, they should pay attention to distinguish between rough practice and tenacity of students. Therefore, yoga teachers must always do detailed ideological work, pay attention to safety and improve guidance in yoga teaching.
Second, pay attention to students' physiological characteristics.
1. According to students' physiological characteristics, problems that should be paid attention to in teaching: bones are elastic and easy to deform, and students must be guided to sit, stand and move correctly. ?
2. Action symmetry exercises. Pay attention to the practice of the other limb and the all-round symmetrical development of the body. During class practice, you should do some corresponding body movements, such as stretching, chest expansion, back bending, hyperopia and so on. ?
3. In the initial stage, we should teach students the correct breathing methods and develop good breathing habits, such as chest breathing and abdominal breathing, expanding the chest when doing exercises, inhaling when stretching, and exhaling when recovering. Never hold your breath, especially for a long time, so don't do anaerobic endurance exercise. ?
4. For students with poor cardiovascular development, the heart rate must be arranged reasonably in teaching. Generally speaking, the amount of exercise should not be too large and the practice time should not be too long; For people who are overtired, fasting training is not suitable, which will cause hypoglycemia. Therefore, warm-up activities and finishing activities should be done well in practice.