{"id":22341,"date":"2019-03-14T22:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=22341"},"modified":"2019-03-17T20:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:57:52","slug":"thanks-to-jason-culls-teacher-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/yoga\/thanks-to-jason-culls-teacher-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Jason’s Yoga Wall teacher training (Jason Cull, C-IAYT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had fun subbing for a very well respected senior Iyengar yoga teacher – using the ultimate prop – the yoga wall!\u00a0 This version of yoga wall was a bit more complicated than the standard yoga ropes used at most Iyengar studios so I felt a little anxious to sub-teach the class.\u00a0 What’s different?\u00a0 Jason’s wall has all the bells and whistles, with safety buckles, balls and sockets, additional props – the belt, handles, bars – so I might say that there are yoga walls and there are GREAT YOGA WALLS.<\/p>\n

Hearing that Iyengar certified instructors are only permitted to teach in that style, while I highly respect the Iyengar teaching, liking sounds and flow more, I had never pursued their brand of teacher training. Rather I pursued the Yoga Therapist training at 800 hrs. after the 200 hrs. and 500 hrs. with Yoga Alliance.\u00a0 Still, Iyengar school , I so respect as there are so many fundamentals and superb take aways from Iyengar teachings.<\/p>\n

Treating the class as more of Iyengar Inspired Yoga Therapeutics with Yoga Wall, I am happy to report the 75 minute class progressed smoothly, a student walked out saying “it was awesome! ” even, much to my delight – all thanks to Jason Cull’s Yoga Wall training level 1&2. Yes, happy to report that my fears of someone falling off and getting injured, thank goodness, did not happen. Rather this super enthusiastic guy I was worried may fall out of the strap, didn’t and walked out with that awesome comment.<\/p>\n

Thank you Jason – I’m glad your training prepared me well to face room full of students with diverse body types and needs. Now if I could only get this wall home – especially after a 10 hours flight back from Asia, use of yoga wall felt soooo good as I got to lengthen strengthen the compression I felt along the lower back – and ah what elation – to go up side down without worrying about my cervical spine ( I had a whiplash many years ago when a drunk driver rear ended me on HW 880 between Berkeley and Silicon Valley – the nightmare commute).<\/p>\n

Yoga wall is so therapeutic- I was one happy yoga therapist last night.<\/p>\n

Yoga Health Center is the only place with this Great Wall here in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n

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Feels sooo good – just hanging out -Blissed our:). Thank you also to Maria and Regina for entrusting me to lead the class.\u00a0 I usually rise to the occasion and that’s one of the many benefits of yogic lifestyle – to say YES ! whereas before yoga, I might have snubbed it – too busy, too tired, too sudden, too unprepared, too unsure, too imperfect, too hard, too risky … etc etc.\u00a0 Today, I just say YES:)\u00a0 Yes,\u00a0 Saying YES to sharing the teachings of yoga brings Joy:)\u00a0 Yoga is not about pretzel poses and stern serious faces – it’s about connecting to our higher Self … that inner Joy that is everyone’s birthright.<\/p>\n

Hanging out … floating weightless to me is …about inviting this natural rush … you are flooded with this sense of …<\/p>\n

Euphoria:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had fun subbing for a very well respected senior Iyengar yoga teacher – using the ultimate prop – the yoga wall!\u00a0 This version of yoga wall was a bit more complicated than the standard yoga ropes used at most Iyengar studios so I felt a little anxious to sub-teach the class.\u00a0 What’s different?\u00a0 Jason’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22341"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22419,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions\/22419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}