http://healthruns.com/health-forum/tags/teachers A HealthRuns.com initiative en-US Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:24:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://healthruns.com/health-forum/search.php http://healthruns.com/health-forum/topic/should-yoga-schools-be-regulated#post-42 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:48:12 +0000 now_i_m_here 42@http://healthruns.com/health-forum/ <p>Yes,yoga schools should be regulated.<br /> Yoga provides several benefits like</p> <p>Flexibility: Yoga makes the body supple, as its postures act upon the various joints of the body including those joints that are never really visible or worked upon. The changes will be evident and result almost instantaneous. Your body, which is otherwise rigid, thanks to the sedentary lifestyle, will experience a new whiff of freedom instantly after a few yoga sessions.</p> <p>Massages all body parts: Ever heard of massaging the internal organs of the body? Yoga is perhaps the only form of exercise, which massages all the internal glands and organs of the body in a thorough manner. It directly or indirectly touches the glands thus massaging it and giving a relaxing therapy to the body.</p> <p>Cleansing and Detoxification: Yoga has a set of advanced activities, which helps cleanse and detoxify the body. It helps throw toxins out of the body and keeps the body clean from within. This keeps the body and the mind well functional.</p> <p>Muscle Toning: Muscles that have become slack, flaccid, weak, loose can be firmed and tightened by yoga. Regular practice of yoga helps tone the body making you a piece of true envy.</p> <p>Beyond the body: Yoga increases the Somatic and Kinesthetic awareness. It improves the overall mood and brings about self-acceptance and self-awareness. Anxiety and depression decreases, concentration, memory and learning ability improves. </p> http://healthruns.com/health-forum/topic/should-yoga-schools-be-regulated#post-31 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:07:12 +0000 raj 31@http://healthruns.com/health-forum/ <p>It is necessary. Yoga is really beneficial if done in a proper way, if not, it may have some bad effects on your body, specially at the armature or the newbie stages. I have seen a lot of people starting in a wrong way, like having jerks while acquiring postures and then that goes on till the very end. We should have quality teachers to tell them the right way in early stages. </p> http://healthruns.com/health-forum/topic/should-yoga-schools-be-regulated#post-2 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:30:48 +0000 blupa 2@http://healthruns.com/health-forum/ <p>If you search the web for Yoga Teacher Training schools, you will be inundated with hundreds of styles and approaches in almost every corner of the globe. All of these programs promise to graduate exceptional, knowledgeable teachers with a penchant for presenting the practice of yoga in a safe and accessible way. But as the number of Yoga schools explodes, are the thousands of new teachers they are producing every year really credible and safe? </p> <p>In New York, the state Department of Education doesn’t think so and is requiring Teacher Training schools to obtain a Vocational License similar to what any technical school would have, and have threatened 79 yoga training schools with closure and up to $50,000 dollars in noncompliance fines if they don’t. These stricter regulations may be a trend in the yoga world as its popularity continues to grow, and more and more people are becoming students and teachers.</p> <p>Though it is not a requirement to become a teacher training program, many of today’s yoga schools are registered with Yoga Alliance, the industries current supervisory agency. Yoga Alliance is not affiliated with any state or national governing body, and seeks mainly to uphold the standards of the ancient practice of yoga as well as ensure the credibility and safety of the teachers that graduate from a registered program. The standards of a Yoga Alliance registered school are broad though quite thorough and help students and potential teachers to know what to expect from the registered program.</p> <p>Whether or not to bring more regulatory standards into the scope of yoga is an ongoing debate. Currently, there are no requirements or standards that one must meet to “teach” yoga, though more and more people are choosing to train through a registered school before going out into the world to teach. Students, also, are becoming more educated on how to choose a certified teacher. But, the practice of yoga, just as any physical practice, can have its risks. Risks that won’t necessarily disappear with stricter regulations. </p> <p>What could happen if yoga schools become state and federally regulated could be a double edged sword. On one side, yoga will become much more of a business than it already is potentially losing the individual creativity and interpretation on which many schools thrive. Schools may often have to teach, or not teach, based on regulations with materials being standardized or omitted based on the opinions of people in business suits who may or may not know anything about the practice and teaching of yoga. But, conversely, having your school or your certification recognized by a state and/or federal licensing board may elevate the credibility and the compensation of yoga teachers. As a fellow yogi/physical therapist recently pointed out, in the 70’s physical therapy was an emerging art that was not state or federally regulated, thus physical therapists weren’t viewed with the respect and credibility that they have today. With regulations and standardizations, physical therapy has grown into a well-respected field which is not only credible but also well compensated. Maybe the potential is there for yoga, too.</p> <p>What do you think about the regulation of Yoga schools? </p>