6. Laurel Beversdorf - Pedagogy, Critical Thinking and Yoga Evolution

Some of the topics covered in this talk with Laurel:


The story behind her pedagogic skills, growing up surrounded by
teachers and conversations around pedagogy, and her teaching
experience previous to yoga.


Her critical thinking process and her yoga training journey
through Yoga Works and Yoga Tune Up.


The difference in between Yoga Works and the guru-based model of
Iyengar Yoga, and about the horizontal vs the vertical model of
apprenticeship.


The challenges of training new yoga teachers and the culture of
yoga in India, in the West, and how to honor yoga while using it
in a way that feels relevant to the people we are sharing it
with.


Kinesiopathologizing, in contrast to
Movement Optimism, from the lens
of Dr. Greg Lehman. 


The mistake that movement specialists make in terms of trying to
fix posture, vs exposing people to a variety of movement.


Reflections about the state of the vast majority of yoga teachers
around right and wrong posture and movement.


Yoga teacher scope of practice.


Reflections about the essence of yoga.


 


Laurel Beversdorf, B.F.A, E-RYT 500, is the creator of Yoga with
Resistance Bands Classes and Trainings and Body of Knowledge
Anatomy and Biomechanics workshops. A Yoga Tune Up trainer and
senior teacher and teacher trainer for YogaWorks, Laurel
regularly presents trainings and workshops at locations and
studios across the US and the world. Laurel is an
interdisciplinary movement educator specializing in anatomy,
biomechanics and yoga teaching pedagogy, based out of YogaWorks
in NYC. You can learn more about her online classes and workshops
at www.laurelbeversdorf.com