As a teacher, you can only truly assist and help your students if you walk around and adjust your instructions and sequence to the needs and capabilities of your students. Therefore, we train our teachers to teach away from their own mat. But in live classes, you can provide so much more value than just demonstrating and guiding the class from your own mat. In times of online classes, this is common and often the only way to teach yoga. They simply roll out their mat at the front of the classroom and practice along. Of course, you can make it easier for yourself than that, and many teachers do, especially when they teach Vinyasa Yoga classes. You should make a clear choice about whom you wish to be. A yoga teacher walks around the class watching, helping, correcting, and adjusting students. A yoga teacher though is more concerned with helping each student meet his or her goals of coming to the yoga class. An instructor is more concerned with what to do and how to do it and will follow a set pattern, sequence, or instructions.

Mostly an instructor will stand in front, during most of the class and demonstrate the asanas for students to follow. An instructor is someone who simply provides or explains instructions about how to do an asana or exercise. It is easy to become confused between the role of a teacher and the role of an instructor.

Be a teacher not an instructor – Get off your mat! How to handle six common challenges with teaching Vinyasa Yoga 1. Read on to learn about how you can work on mastering them and becoming a skilled Vinyasa Yoga teacher. There are six main challenges and therefore six valuable tips on how to teach Vinyasa Yoga for all levels. As a teacher, you must be fluent in your instruction while also being quick in detecting and verbally or manually adjusting any misalignments. Most postures are held for only a few breaths before we make the transition to the next pose.

Why is teaching Vinyasa Yoga challenging? Vinyasa Flow classes are dynamic practices in which we continuously move from pose to pose. In fact, it is more challenging than Hatha Yoga or Yin Yoga.

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