Welcome to Episode 110: "I Don't Take Requests" with Host Sandy Raper. Have you ever taken a yoga class and had the teacher ask whether anyone has any injuries or whether anyone in the class would like to work on any area in particular? Perhaps, you a yoga teacher, and this is common practice for how you begin the classes you lead? Have you ever considered that, although this may feel like an act of kindness, you just might be heightening the level of personal liability and your duty of care responsibilities by doing so.
Episode Highlights;
- Why yoga teachers may want to reconsider asking students about injuries or other specialized requests prior to class and opt rather to simply teach to the collective of the class offering additional options and adaptations to the sequence being offered.
- What responsibilities and liabilities come with being a yoga teacher?
- What are a yoga teacher's "duty of care"?
- The yoga teacher's primary responsibility, duty of care, is to provide students with a safe practice environment.
- Five areas of responsibility areas.
- Why considering a "don't ask policy" versus full disclosure may be a better approach.
- How focusing on the bigger intention of teaching and meeting students where they are brings great freedom to a yoga teacher.
- Learning to be okay with not being everyone's teacher.
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