Roman Polanski, Sinead O'Connor...

“the siblings from Succession!” our team shouted.

We didn’t even need to get to Kendall and Siobhan.  Our answer ensured that we retained our title as reigning champs… of the Headteacher’s Quiz at the kid’s school!

That final round of the quiz involved finding the hidden link between the answers to a set of 4 questions.

I contributed to some of the answers for each set of questions, but was struggling to figure out the links. My mind was going off on some serious tangents. 

Finally towards the last question I thought it might be helpful if I actually looked at the answers that we were writing down, rather than just discussing them.  And it totally worked!  Being able to see the answers focused my attention.  It made me realise that I’m a visual learner.

I’m sharing this story with you, because it relates to my experience of being a yoga student. I practice without my glasses and rely on verbal instruction and the physical sensations of my body, so I had kinda assumed that I was mostly an auditory or tactile learner.

This realisation reminds me of the importance of using a wide range of teaching techniques to help yoga students in their practice.

As a yoga teacher we’re taught to use a variety of different methods to teach the class - verbal instructions, demonstrating, physical assists and landmarking (“turn towards the window” “face the entrance side of the room”, etc).

What are the learning techniques you find most useful in your yoga classes? As a student and/or as a teacher?

Please share, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

PS - Here are the answers to one of the set of 4 questions from the quiz:

1.) Sadie Frost

2.) Madonna

3.) Lucy Liu

4.) Rita Ora

Can you guess the link between them?