About this Masterclass:
A midwife doesn't deliver the baby. She tends the conditions for birth in order for the mother and child to feel as safe as possible.
This is what yoga teaching could be. But it requires us to let go of the idea that good teaching means having all the answers, all the cues, and of all the control.
Most yoga teacher trainings give you tools like philosophy, sequencing, alignment, anatomy, and language. But what many do not offer, is Embodied Spaceholding — how to tend to the people in the room from a place of truth within you, that can shapeshift as needed in real time. This is the art a midwife holds: not delivering, but tending the conditions so something can emerge on its own terms.
This is a live, 3-hour online masterclass for yoga teachers ready to look honestly at what holding space actually means, how to do it whilst staying present and responsive, and how to know when to soften and when to skilfully challenge. We question the difference between safety and the appearance of safety, and the difference between guiding someone and quietly shaping them into your own image of what they should become, because you are their teacher.
Pain everywhere. We are in the birth canal. We need so many more midwives.
— Jaiya John
You'll leave with language to support your guidance and cueing, so the people you teach feel more held, not more managed. You'll leave having felt, in your own body, the difference between teaching from control and teaching from trust, and what becomes possible for your students when you make that shift.
We’ll have the conversation most yoga teachers never get to have: about power, agency, presence, and what we're really modelling when we teach. This is the midwifery of yoga teaching: tending the conditions for people to find their own way to exactly where they need to be.
Saturday 18th July
3 hours · 9am-12pm
Live on Zoom
Limited spaces
Early bird £65 until 7th July · Thereafter £85
Replay available for 72 hours (I highly recommend joining live to be in the energy of the group)
Finer Details:
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