The Monthly Meet-Up Collection

300 CLUB + BEYOND

 MEET-UP: May 7, 2024... Click Here to watch! YTT4, 50 minutes.

  • Disregard midway check-in** It doesn’t exist in May!

  • GROUP GOALS: personal responsibility, daily discipline, Ashtanga, “developing the yoga brain” continued

  • JOURNAL: Mysore Style, consider your own accountability + daily discipline thru this lens. Create a 30 day plan, for practice with at least 6 days off (1 day every week, plus Full + New moon days). What are your tools for success? .5 hrs, YTT5.

  • Consider your own lineage. Include my own info about our “old-school” teaching lineage and the true meaning of Ashtanga Yoga. Revisit the Family Tree exercise from Module 2, Section 1: WATCH: The 8 Limbs and our family/philosophy tree with Chrissy. CREATE: a visual representation of your own being, feel free to include important places and philosophies or values (like the 8 limb tree on p 52 of your YTT manual) as well people like the lineage chart (on p 50) and/or any other strong influences on your self… Upload a photo and write a description of this to our 300 hour media album! Up to 2 hrs, YTT4.

  • WATCH Defining Yoga + Teacher with Chrissy. BRAINSTORM words that come to mind when you think the word YOGA and the word TEACHER. READ Yoga Sutras 1:1+2 with the interpretation. This class was borrowed from Module 1, Section 3… Let’s elaborate:

    • Can you think of a time when you felt shy, scared or intimidated to say something because of someone else’s “authority” or “status”?

    • Why is it important to give voices to our students?

    • HOW do we do this?

    • EMAIL Chrissy and SHARE a response to this piece of the puzzle.

    • 1.5 hrs, YTT4.

  • Practice Teaching: reminders….

    • Check out the new Chandra themed Grateful Yoga Mini-Series with Lauren Priestap and PRACTICE as many as you like, YTT1. Please leave a comment with feedback on each class you participate in… A great chance to support your peers and motivate your inner teacher!

    • CREATE your own and submit the theme/lesson plan the Chrissy for REVIEW, YTT4.

    • TEACH them + Chrissy will talk you thru this process, pay you, plus SHARE via the Grateful Yoga page. YTT5.

  • On Request: Please WATCH: Social Media Navigation: the spaces where yoga teachers and social media collide with Chrissy 67 mins, YTT4. Explore how to create healthy and abundant relationship with social media platforms. (borrowed from Module 4, Section 2)

  • Another SHARE:

    • CREATE a Progressive Sequence that encourages memorization and repetition.

      • Consider a lesson plan that teaches on movement, asana, sound or breath at a time. Slowly repeating and building through out until 5 or more “moves” are linked together.

      • EMAIL this lesson plan to Chrissy. Try to keep it VERY simple, and VERY repetitive so that anyone could memorize it with a little effort. Think SUCESS!

  • For continued Study: DEVELOPING THE “Yoga Brain” EXPLORE this new anatomy section focused on the brain, mind and mental health... YTT2. I’ll continue to add a segment to this monthly as we move thru meet-ups! This month, the Mysore teaching methodology, memorization, discipline and repetition all speaks to healthy brain functioning, too. So cool!!

DID YOU COMPLETE ALL OF THE ABOVE!? How many hours did you track total? I’m trying to get a feel for how much time JUST this online portion of the 300 CLUB + BEYOND takes up in a month. Let me know your feedback AND that you’ve completed this task list!