IY Teacher Feature: Jayadeva Mandelkorn
With a distinguished career teaching Yoga since 1969, Jayadeva Mandelkorn speaks with an authority few other teachers can match. He knows not only the challenges of teaching subtle Yoga practices but as the founder and director of the Princeton Integral Yoga Institute, has experienced the worldly realities of running a Yoga center. In this week's blog, Jayadeva offers suggestions on marketing practices and how to create a community wherever you may share Yoga. “It is very challenging to teach Yoga, especially right now. Yoga is not a surprise anymore. It’s everywhere. However, Integral Yoga is quite special. Integral Yoga teachers are doing Yoga for the sake of Yoga. By that, I mean for the union of our individual, ego-centered, finite self with that Self of All, the Absolute. Not all Yoga teachers are doing that.” -Jayadeva MandelkornWhat is the easiest way to share Yoga as a new teacher? “Offer Yoga classes in settings where you don’t have any overhead cost. In other words, you're...
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