Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Autistic Yogi Reflects on Teaching in New Spaces

Class sizes ahve dramatically changed for me. Going from teaching 10-20 classes a week to an average of 2-4 students to a class size of 15 or more on average has had a tremendous effect on my pre-class nervousness.
To navigate feedback from the student body from class sizes that large is a rather hard endeavor.  Most if not all feedback so far goes through a funnel, going up to the Manager or studio owner and then is delivered to the practitioner.
The questions that hit me are: 
Is all criticism/feedback reflective of the larger % of the group?

How much conformity needs to be had in order to appease holding a class structure?

Are there any hard rules that make transitioning experimental classes easier?

Will there ever be a chance to appease all practitioners?

Having Aspergers and communication in large groups has always been a slight difficulty, where I am more likely to have the Um's Ah's and other go to words that have little to no place in the dialogue of teaching.. What is a best way to get over those without going to toastmasters?




Going into new spaces has a very peculiar feeling, So many aspects of our being that take on a new light when we observe them as a non-partial observer.


A little scattered today, and it feels great :)

Namaste!

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