Greta Hill on Teaching to Spark Joy

Today my guest is Greta Hill. Greta has been studying yoga, meditation, and the healing arts for more than 25 years, and she has been teaching internationally since 1999. She facilitates Yoga Teacher Trainings, retreats, and online yoga lifestyle courses. She has also served as a consultant for a variety of wellness magazines, including the Yoga Journal.

If you’re tuning in today, you’ll hear insight on teaching yoga, including tips for focusing on students and getting out of your own way, taking feedback and developing your artistic expression of facilitating a yoga class. Plus hear about how Greta chose her teachers, and how she structures her own self-practice.

7:30 Graduating YTT, starting to teach.

8:00 25 classes a week.

11:00 Teaching philosophy.

13:00 Tips for focusing on your students, instead of yourself. 

14:30 How to truly see students.

16:30 How to make a class more conversational.

19:00 On the use of music in a yoga class.

21:00 A takeaway Greta would like to have heard 2 years into her teaching career. 

23:30 How to choose your teachers.

25:00 On self-practice as a teacher.

29:00 What motivates students.

31:30 What feedback to take. 

36:30 The art and audience of yoga. 

39:15 What Greta enjoys in a class. 

43:00 What makes an exceptional leader.

45:00 Billboard message. 

Find Greta on Instagram:

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Greta’s website:

⁠http://gretahill.com/⁠ 

⁠Michelle Cassandra Johnson⁠, a teacher Greta mentions. 

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