Teaching skills and knowledge

Teaching skills and knowledge builds upon a basic skillset developed in teaching to evolve to consider how students learn and understand.

The skills and knowledge subject focus is through 2 focal areas

1. Principles of Demonstration, instruction, observation, and correction. These 4 principles statements were distributed to teachers in the mid 1980 as a guide by BKS Iyengar and are still relevant today.
2. The Abhyasa-Vairagya Axis. The Axis is designed to deliver a different way of looking a teaching other than the lens of alignment and technique. As core principles of Yogic philosophy Abhyasa and Vairagya are what we aim to establish when teaching and the axis is a means for teachers to review any teaching