While yoga is an excellent form of gentle exercise for many people with limited physical capabilities, some poses can aggravate knee injuries. You can modify common yoga poses to be gentle on the knees and even aid in the healing process. The following modifications allow you to continue to practice yoga and gain beneficial rehabilitation from the gentle stretching involved.
Become a Prenatal Yoga Instructor
Prenatal yoga is becoming popular across the country. Prenatal yoga helps pregnant women stay healthy during their pregnancy, helps prevent common aches and pains and helps prepare the body for labor and childbirth. Many gyms and birthing facilities now offer prenatal yoga classes, making prenatal yoga instructors very needed.
Wash a Yoga Mat
Yoga mats are used mostly on floors. Some of them might not be as clean as they look. Before you use one, you should take the time to regularly clean it. If your hands are sticky after class or a short routine, then you know that a cleaning is long overdue. Follow these steps to find out how to clean it.
Keep Your Hands From Slipping on a Yoga Mat
There is nothing worse than being in the perfect downward facing dog position when your hands start to slip on your yoga mat and you lose your balance. When using a new rubber yoga mat, some people find their hands and feet slipping. This is normal and will occur until your yoga mat has been put to use and there is a little wear and tear on the mat. There are some steps you can take when using a new yoga mat to stop slipping and make your yoga practice more rewarding.
Get Teaching Experience as a New Yoga Teacher
There are small armies of newly minted, certified yoga teachers in nearly every city in the U.S., all vying for paid teaching work. While some people chose to practice and refine their own yoga physical practice for many years before teaching, many more are entering the teaching field within the first 2 years of their physical practice.