04.12.10
My first class
Afternoon I simulated a class in a yoga center in Clifford. (This yoga center also offers Bellydance class).
What I hope is to teach some workshop class in my spare time in my condo to spread the joy while doing my own exercise.
Took 2 important advice from my friend who’s been teaching for almost 2 years: dress well and teach slowly.
Pretty useful advice–by dressing well and looking good makes your students wanna be like you and this boosts their interest somehow. Teaching slowly–break down movements are extremely important to beginners and you don’t want to discouraged a beginner by pulling some stunts that she thinks she could not achieve. One has to believe she can do it and find the joy to go on.
It was pretty quiet afternoon. There was no Yoga class. I actually just gave lesson to the Yoga teacher and the girl at the reception. I’d prepared pretty much including a full choreo dance but in the end I just ended up explaining 2 movements-hip slide and hip lift-and-drop. We did this over and over again and it was quite enough to have the two girls sweat all over.
I don’t think I’ve taught too well…Over these years I’ve been screwing up my languages so much that I found quite inadequate to express myself sometimes.(You can say that I am multi-lingual but the truth is, my mandarin is no better than my English, Cantonese’s worse, and chaoshanese is worst. Let’s not mention the other two foreign ones.)
I had some positive comments on the class from the girls(“I would have signed a contract with you instead of this current one if you had appeared earlier.”), but really think I should have done better.
My warm-up session was too long and my stretching time was too short, and the music I prepared was not exciting.
Right now I am just waiting for next month to see if they can admit enough students for a beginner’s class.
mira said,
April 13, 2010 at 10:28 am
You are teaching already? WOW!
Tammy said,
April 13, 2010 at 11:19 am
actually I take it as part of my learning. when are we going to catch up? I miss frozen yogurt.
kev said,
April 18, 2010 at 5:41 am
Go Nagwa…Congratulations