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Namaste,
Gabrielle
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Gabrielle,
I really enjoyed the chunking. It all makes so much sense. The breathing information was sooooooo helpful. Ha-really great information for moving to the next level. with love-Patty
Thank you Patty! Sometimes the most simple stuff is the most profound ... and the most often neglected.
Namaste and love Gabrielle 
wonderful video! Now, i'm more aware of my breath. most teachers are so used to giving instructions on how to do the poses so much so that they forgot the magic words, "Inhale and Exhale" which are very important. thanks a lot! --roselle
wonderful video! now i'm more aware of my breath. most teachers are so used with their scripted instructions so much so that they forgot the magic words, "Inhale and Exhale"...thanks a lot!
Hi G!
excellent
thank you
i love how you talk of chunking.....i agree
and how you reenforce the importance of guiding words of inhale and exhale
i like how you never think things are known, assumed or too elementary to discuss
i think we need to hear it all
as instructors
peace and love
I was not able to view video, but VERY INTERESTED!
Hi Christen
Have you managed to see the video yet? Please let me know either here or by email!
Warm wishes
Gabrielle
Thanks Gabrielle!
I'm a newby for Hot Yoga! The breathing info is really helpful!
Thanks for the information...it took me 10 years as a student before I realised that if I stopped holding my breath during the more challenging poses, they became almost easy..... I like the idea of inhaling and exhaling in the appropriate times during the poses....it really seems to help....some of my favorite instructors teach totally outside of the "dialogue"...and it seems so much better for me....like religion verses spirituality...the dialoge is the religion...it gets you the basics of the yoga, but your "hot yoga doctor tecniques" gets you the spiritual relationship with the yoga and onesself....
That's a lovely analogy Stacey, thank you! (can I use it? hehehe)
Wonderful video! I have been teaching for about 9 years and ALWAYS need reminders to keep growing as an instructor. We get caught up in routines, and in my case caught up in trying to create new unique combination flows to add interest and newness to the class. In that sense, I do find myself tied to notes at the front of my mat, as I try to follow a flow sequence. While some are wonderful and offer creative transitions in and out of poses, YOU are so right to remind us to keep our attention on the students! I will pass this along, thanks for the help!
Great ideas! Things I have figured out on my own along the way, but explained in a way I couldn't. Looking forward to the next video.
Very valuable video, I learned a lot from it and appreciate what you have taught me through it.
I did think, however, that it was too long and could use a good/ruthless editor.
Some of the hype distracted from the valuable substance in the same way that a too ornate frame can distract from a painting.
The video could probably be trimmed down to 17 minutes instead of 27 and it would carry even more of a punch.
I hope this feedback helps for future videos.
Where's the video?????????
Great video. I think it would be particularly valuable and helpful to new teachers...they have learned the dialogue but 'now what??'. Teaching one's first class certainly is the completion of one circle but the beginning of a whole other circle of growth and learning to be an aware, knowledgable, inspirational teacher. I know every teacher training is different but in mine at least, they advised us not to give corrections for 4-6 months UNLESS someone was doing something that was going to hurt them. For me, that time frame felt about right (but I was only teaching 2 classes per week)...I don't think I was ready or able to give constructive corrections until that point as I was still learning how to read students' bodies...to know what it was they physically could not do versus what they just didn't understand how to do. Four years later, it comes quite naturally but I am trying to think of how I felt as a new teacher. For people that do struggle with flow and remembering the sequence, the chunking and helper phrase techniques are a great tool to use. The breathing tips were excellent reminders...many of them are actually in the dialogue but many teachers forget to use them or say 'inhale' when it should be 'exhale' so bringing teachers'/people's attention to the thought behind what the breath is helping to accomplish in the postures is very enlightening. I look forward to the next video! Jen
Great video for new teachers as well as student to take their teaching and practice to the next level. I agree the inhale/exhale is critical for students to know for each pose. Yoga is about the breath. The chunking is definitely a great way the help with the flow of the class and make it more manageable. The video is way too long, a brief intro would be better and get straight to the heart of it without the lengthly commentary. I would encourage students to take the opportunity before or after class to ask the teacher about specific poses that you are struggling with. It is very difficult to individually help every single student with specific poses during the class with 50/100 students. Teacher should offer themself before or after class to help students. it doesn't take a lot of time. 10 or 15 minutes after class while you are standing around conversing, turn those conversation into a yoga discussion and talk about the poses engaging the students to learn in depth. I find that students are hesitant about getting help so I have to take the initiative outside of class to engage the students. If I know a student is struggling, after class I would offer that student help and suddently other students are interested in learning more about that same pose.
Great Video. I have no plans to teach but the video has valuable information for students also.
Thanks so much.
Great video Gabrielle, I think about the right length - longer than 30 mins would be too long. Some good fundamental tips. Breath is always the most critical element and as a student it is often the one element I forget as I try focus on everything else. I also like the chunking and look forward to more detail on how to mentally and physically link postures in the series that benefit each other. Karen
Hi Gabrielle
I was not able to view the video, please advise.
Looking forward to...
Spela
Always wonderful to receive your emails and videos -- I learn new things every single time and would like to think that my teaching is so much more rich and insightful for the students because of it. You're fun to watch and to listen to also! I bought your big book within 15 minutes of being on your site about a year ago and have used it sooo much. My students love to look at it too and I have referred many to your site for handy hints, inspiration, etc.
Keep going....you're awesome!
Gabrielle,
I continue to be impressed by your gifted and inspirational teaching style. In all your materials you break down the information in a way that makes it easy to get an 'ah-hah' and to incorporate the learning. i discovered hot yoga early this year and fell in love with it. I have always been a drastically stiff person and am learning that my body doesn't have to stay that way. However i was disappointed that the 'scripted' instructors in the studio could not help me learn how to safely build to the right pose while my body was gaining flexibility. Right after getting addicted to hot yoga, I had to move to another city where there were no classes. Imagine my delight in discovering you and your marvelous materials. Although i am not planning to instruct, I have been able to successfully set up a home studio and continue to grow in my practice. I never get tired of listening to you and learning from you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Keep your special insights coming!
Great video ...
Thank you Gabrielle, that was awesome and extremely helpful. I've been teaching Hot Yoga for 10 months now, having taken the Absolute Course in Koh Samui last October. I get more confidence with each class, although still feel like I have a long way to go and tons to learn. I stay on my mat too much because it seems easier to teach my way through the class by just saying what I am doing. So much easier for the rights and lefts in particular. My goal is to peel myself off my safety mat and walk through the class teaching upright ;- )
I LOVE hot yoga like nothing else I've ever done!
Bonnie Evoy, RMT Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Thank you for these new insights - As a practitioner I certainly can feel the difference in class when being guided by someone who has "just learned the script" as opposed to the teachers who have mastered and contemplated the poses. Thank you for the chunking concept applied to yoga - I would have never thought of that!
Very helpful for newbies. I've been teaching for 1 year, and have learned this already, and like to add
'what are you feeling", and" what you should be feeling", and how that moves throughout the body, with the length of the stay in the pose.
And to always let the students know it's okay to speak up if they are not sure about something, or to give feedback when needed,during, or after clas,s to me, or the front desk in the comment box.. And yes a personal practice is so very important, because you have to feel these things first, yourself, before you can instruct others.
Thanks, Gabrielle, you are doing a great service!
namaste~
I haven't actually taken a hot yoga class yet but I have been teaching flow/hatha yoga for a few years. I get a lot out of your emails and this video was very informative. I use the chunk method to remember in all the types of classes I teach as well as in yoga. I hope to eventually get more comfortable moving around the room and keeping the flow of class. The video reinforced my constant cueing of breath with movement that I do and was thinking was getting too redundant, now I feel better about it. Students tell me they appreciate the detailed cueing I do so I guess it isn't too much....
Dear Gabrielle,
Great work! I really enjoyed watching your video!!
Thank you for sharing all these with us!
Namaste
Wow, everyone! Hello and thanks so much for the great comments.
I was about to answer them all separately...
So, yes, I appreciate you taking the time to comment. These techniques are definitely profound and have a great impact on your students and your ability to teach and feel confident. After all, being present is what it's all about.
While the video was fairly lengthy it was the length it had to be to give the prerequisite information.
Having said that, we will endeavor to make the next ones more punchy for you. And give you some great stuff to learn and practice.
Namaste
Gabrielle
Hi Gabrielle,
I also found the video too long and the background music far too loud at times. I am having great difficulty understanding why people are attacking scripted instructors, to do so means they have totally missed the point of the dialogue and are probably unaware that their most wonderful unscipted teachers are probably using 80% of the dialogue anyhow and and I dare say that includes you Gabrielle, and if not, you have no doubt developed your own "script" !! From Rowena we have this "most teachers are so used with their scripted instructions so much so that they forgot the magic words, “Inhale and Exhale”… if this is the case the "scripted teacher" was not following the dialogue and this statement only serves to reinforce the value of the dialogue. From Erin (a teacher) YOU are so right to remind us to keep our attention on the students !! If you have a scipt to follow you can pay more attention to students individual needs while at the same time giving the whole class what they paid for. I have been in classes where the "wonderful teacher" was giving so much unscripted help to a newer student the rest of us were without instruction for much of the class. Thank you Rowena and Erin. Any number of senior teachers will tell how they drifted from the dialogue at different times through their carreer only to find that like the given example they were forgetting important things. As teachers we were told we could personalise and help people with individual instruction through the class but to always come back to the dialogue as a solid base to work from. An interesting thing as a student is the number of times you do not hear something in the dialogue and yet it is being repeated class after class, finally one day your focus shifts and suddenly you hear what you "think" is something new !! Another point of course is that if you are trying to bring a brand name to the world it has to be consistant, people go to burger and coffee chains around the world because the expect the same dining experience! How can you bring a style of yoga to the world if there is no consistancy with the instructors ?? Imagine if every one of the 600 or more new teachers each year was going out and creating their own hot yoga masterclasses, piggybacking on what their guru has taught them yet changing it ever so slightly to make it appear to be something new?? I like it that I can take a class in Spanish and French and Chinese and follow along, I have had great experiences knowing that as i travel my favourite hot yoga experience is going to be of the same high quality ! Finally, I do not understand why there is this constant attack filled with bitter innuendo and if it continues I will opt out !!!
Great video! I've always enjoyed the little email reminders that you send out but this is the first video I've seen of yours - it's nice to have another perspective .
I'm off to Teacher Training this fall - I've always taken everything under consideration and hot yoga is included. The only thing that I can disagree with is that this type of yoga "just works" for me and as someone with a medical background, it really does make sense.....
But still love that someone is out there who is offering another point of view - we don't all learn the same way.
Lisa from Canada
very innovative doc!!
well done
Hi Gabrielle,
I started doing Bikram Yoga 2 1/2 months ago and I am totally infatuated with it. However, I did discover after a few classes, that most teachers only recites the words and fail to really instruct. Because of this, I am now interested in becoming a teacher in hopes to really make a difference through a better teaching technique (especially for newbies and yogis who are searching for corrections in their posture). This video basically shows me how to incorporate these ideas and make it possible to really teach with these words. I have a long ways to go before I can even become a teacher but I'm glad to know that these videos are available for me to become a really good one in the future. Thank you.
Mylene
Interesting. Keep up the good work. I especially like to know about the breathing - when to inhasle and when to exhale. Thank you.
Gabrielle,
thank you for the valuable assistance provided in this video. You receive blessings for this.
Namaste
Gabrielle,
Thank you for the valuable assistance provided in this video.
You receive blessings for this.
Namaste
Thank you I guess I had a good Yoga Teacher Trainer because this is the way I was taught...to chunk...and direct the breath flow with each pose. I am looking forward to your next video! Thank again!
Wanda
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Unfortunately the video would not open, but I would love to see it. I am now starting yoga and would like to do the poses the correct way from the start.
This was a great video. I am a fairly new teacher in yoga and it had very useful information. Looking forward to the next one. Thank you.
Gabrielle,
Thank you for the thoughts about breathing. In other types of exercise classes I have taken through the years, I found I was holding my
breath. And often I was inhaling when I should have been exhaling so something must not have felt natural for me during those classes.
Hot Yoga has made me aware of breathing throughout and how to use my breath to benefit my practice.
I look forward to the next video.
Deb
aloha Gabrielle,
thank you so much for this great video and information on teaching. I love hot yoga, and Bikram, but as there are no Bikram studios in my state (ohio), I do a home practice with a heater and humidifier, and cd. Not as good, but still..... There are some studios that offer HOT yoga, really just meaning a hot temp room.....well, I had my own studio for a few years and always kept the heat between 80 - 90, but I never called it a hot yoga class. I would love to do the hot yoga training, but the money situation and time is impossible right now. I still teach 3 or 4 classes a week, and the breath has always been the most important thing I try and get students to "learn". Once again, thank you so much.
aloha
shelly
BRUTAL!! It is just amazing...this stuff is very simple but with principles the people in the yoga class fell guided and safe...is so good-)) Thanhs for you be so kind and share this information...Here in Portugal I Know a instrutor that use this principles...is so good to attended a class with him...
Namasté
Salva
Beautiful video!! I've always had the desire to be an instructor but didn't think that I could be an effective guide through the poses. I get mind boggled easily. With this chunking method I actually think that I could learn and be comfortable in front of a class. I wish you offered teacher training classes?!? Namaste:)
Sometimes some of the teachers talk so fast or low that I can't hear them and it really does help to listen to what
they say. Wish I could read their entire script!
Thank you
this was very good video i learn too much from this video. i hope we will get like this in future.
Rashid
Thank you for the thought provoking video. I was also blown away by the beauty of the location where you filmed the video. Was it a public place? If so, where? Regards.
Hi Laurie
Yes, it IS a sensational place. And no, it's not public! So I am not at liberty to say where it is! Thanks so much for noticing. It's a special place that I am privileged to delight in.
Namaste
Gabrielle
Thanks sooo much, looking forward to doing my homework and the next vidio. Namaste, Beth
Thank you! I've been editing, editing and then doing more editing for months on my own fundamental 'script' trying to give crystal clear instructions and get the critical points covered while keeping it as concise as possible, so people don't tune me out! I loved all of your tips, and the pose helpers are perfect for keeping it concise. Where I teach we only have 60 minutes from start to finish, and they do 34 poses with pretty vague instruction (and yep, savasana is never long enough)...so I've been working on how to organize and fit in key points, modifications and corrections into all those valuable seconds, and it's been a huge challenge! I think with your video, some chunking, and more editing, I can make it all fit with a graceful flow.
AND thanks for reminding me to keep the coordination of breath intertwined into my teaching. That really is the most powerful and useful way to breakthrough! 
LOVE YOUR WORK!
and @ Ken: I don't think the point is to criticize using a script per se. I think the problem is (which I saw from day 2 where I now work) learning only a script, but not learning the fundamentals of the poses, and not knowing how to modify them and correct someone when they need it. At best it is vague and unhelpful. At worst, it's dangerous! I guess if you aren't able to work hard and thoroughly enough to improve upon the information and script that was given to you, it would be better to teach a brand name script, (assuming you had to teach at all) and give students the same 'safe and quality' instruction they expected. But for those who can, they should!
this is a very good video, I bow down for your instructions. they are profoundly knowledgeable]. I admire your teaching. a.b.c. so easy. thankyou very much, I will see this over and over. so get with the second one soon. namasthe. god bless you and your family. blanche.
Thank you, the video finally worked for me. As a newbie, I enjoyed your video length and all. I was always very overwhelmed during practice and wished it would end soon. Most of the time I couldn't hear the instructors or was lost in my own thoughts trying to master the poses and forgetting to breathe or not breathing correctly. I'm the kind of person when embarking on a new adventure, I read up on its history and new findings to truly appreciate my journey completely. I like your video because it encompasses how we learn and the challenges of overcoming being overwhelmed. Your Chunking concept will help me to compartmentalize and not think about ALL those poses at once and wishing class would be done soon. Being a newbie, I could use all the help I can get outside of class for my benefit during classes. Thanks Gabrielle for this video (and your other Hot Yoga DVD/book series). Looking forward to the next video.
Lovely summary of cognitive science of chunking. When my kids used to call from college and complain about having to write a 20 page paper I would say "You are really just writing four, five page papers...press the easy button."
Love the yoga and the emails. Thank you.
Thank you, Gabrielle!
I always appreciate your new e-mails, videos, books - there's always something new, inspiring, that makes me say 'a-ha!!'.
Comments on your video (many are covered by other previous comments):
The first seven minutes are spent on ironic criticism of the script etc etc. No need of that, is it? At least not seven minutes.
It takes 12 minutes before you turn up on the screen, and we get to see the lecturer. Lectures with some text on the screen but the voiceover/commentator/lecturer talking loads makes me concentrate on the text and I miss some of your spoken, good comments.
Good: to learn in chunks! Very good idea, and perhaps also for the practice, to form "mental steps", to deal with the class step by step - at least those days when you realise after five minutes that it will a tough, looooong, class.
Good: to coordinate breath with the pose. Something I've missed from other yoga forms.
A comment about instructors and the script. I find that I nowadays avoid classes where the teacher is new/fairly new. They have no idea about when to correct a student, they sometimes just sound like a tape recorder, I even went to a class where the instructor stood still and focused on her watch for correct timing for 90 minutes. Not inspirational!
Hot yoga teachers need more than just learning the script. They need knowledge in anatomy and what to correct to avoid injuries!
Keep up the good work, am looking forward to your next video!
Gabrielle,
Nice video. Beautiful setting. Excellent tone quality. The information was helpful and thought-provoking, but a lot to take in. I will have to review it a few more times. I am slow to develop my practice with many excuses, so I appreciate any reason to see and react to hot yoga and prompt myself to get off the couch.
What I am also deeply touched by is your care and sharing of information. In my experience, knowledge is power and many will hoard all things to advance themselves, not others. Again, thank you for your expertise and helping me.
Tracy May
Very nice and helpful. I like the chunking idea. I may end up using it elsewhere in learning other subjects. : )
Thank you so much for sharing Gabrielle! I'm looking forward to your next video!
Namaste... <3
Great insight into chunking the series. Can't floor series be chunked even further? The inhaling and exhaling did come to me naturally after a couple of months, but it would have made the journey much easier if I had been instructed that way from the begining. Looking forward to receiving my manual and dvds.
Namaste
Fatima
Hi, Gabrielle!
Thank you for your video, I really enjoyed it a lot! I am preparing myself to go to the next teacher training, in September, and I am in the middle of the process of learning the dialogue, so your videos come in a perfect timing for me!
I will apply the chunks method to learn now, but I have a question about adapting the dialogue. I agree with this idea but I wonder if I should start doing it already. I am sure it would be easier to learn the dialogue, but I was told that for the teacher training posture clinics I have to know it word by word, like it is written, right?
One more thing, about the breathing reminders: one of my best teachers is exactly one who reminds students to inhale and exhale A LOT OF TIMES during every pose. I really leave his class feeling lighter, relaxed and breathing better!
Looking forward for the next video, which I hope is coming soon, because I want to see them all before my training in 5 weeks time!!!
Hi Andrea
Unfortunately you will be penalized (and looked down upon) for adding any logical change to the script. Sorry to break the news but for them it must be word for word.
Namaste
Gabrielle
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Hi Derik
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Namaste
Gabrielle
Loved the video!! As a relatively new yoga student your tips and helps made what I am learning in class make more sense to me. Especially the explainations you gave on when in a pose to inhale and exhale breaths, that is the one thing that I am having the hardest time learning and incorporation in my yoga practice. Thanks, namaste.
Thanks so much for the video. I have been doing yoga for about 5 months and when I go a day with out it my day is not the same. I loved the breathing and the chucking together. I would love to teach my own class some day. Yoga is a big part of my life and it helps me so much. I want to help as many as i can to get the great filling of relaxed. thank you so much...
Liked all these ideas and realised I had begun to do some of them on my own in class. The chunking helps me focus on what's ahead and what is the goal for a particular group of poses. It also helps me realize how each chunck gets me ready for the next one--they become building blocks. The breathing and the repetitious phrases go hand in hand when a good teacher is teaching. Because of their "grouping" of the repetitive phrases with breath cues, I have learned to breath in response to those repetitive cues even when I have a teacher who isn't as well tuned in. Thanks and will look forward to the next one.
Your guidance on delivering pose instructions is spot on! I especially liked your guidelines for creating succinct and effective instructions.
It may be good to turn the music volume down slightly, especially in the beginning. I found that I had trouble filtering it out to listen to what you had to say during some of the music selections.
Overall, wonderful video and excellent advice. Thank you!
Gabrielle,
I really enjoyed your video. Chunking makes sense. In classes where I've participated, I would forget to inhale/exhale at the right parts. After awhile, I noticed which instructors gave more "cues" on breathing. I really liked how you made the breathing so logically and easily understood. Thanks again for this instruction. I would love to know when you come to America again. thank you, sheryl
Thank you very much Gabrielle,
I love your video! Very interesting presentation. I learn many useful information.....Awaiting to see your next video...
Namaste...
Hi Gabrielle
I have gained additional knowledge from watching the video for my own practice, eg ensuring that I'm coordinating my breathing correctly and trying to flow through the poses. Becoming a teacher is still a way off for me but it is on my five year plan so your teaching/learning hints will help.
My experience as being fairly new to hot yoga is that the best teachers can adjust peoples poses, add comments to the dialogue to assist individual students, tell inspirational stories and keep the flow of the class going. It is an art and a skill that has come from them practicing deeply themselves and being students on the mat on a daily basis, really understanding the poses but also from many hours of teaching students.
It would seem to me to take time and an ongoing willingness to continue to learn and explore.
Your videos and the site offer opportunities for all of us to do that.
The video was insightful and well done.
Thank you. I have alot to learn. I like the idea of 'chunking'. It is very much like the idea of 'kaizen' and remembering that a thousand miles begins with this first step. I also like learning abouth the breathing. Clearly, many people, I know I wasn't so knowledgable about how and when to breathe properly with all the moves. This goes with all exercise and just being alive. Learning how to breathe correctly is actually a big deal. Knowing this alone properly teaches one how to accomplish yoga, any exercise, or just living. Thank you again. Your videos are very helpful.
there is no screen or link for a video??? where is it?
Beautiful thoughts and ideas. Teaching my first class tomorrow.... I will use it all!
Thanks Gabrielle! Im a wanna be instructer and listening to ur video has eased my mind on some doubts i did have.
The chunking method definitly makes it easier to remember each wonderful pose, without feeling you have made any mistakes.
The inhaling and exhaling i have such mastered and use everyday in my practice,, and bringing it into the dialogue is a fantastic concept.
Thank you xx
Thank you so much! This actually supports and confirms everything I have been thinking about and started activated in my classes, with a bit more detail! yay. Cheers:)
hello gabrielle!
I loved this video, thank u very much.Im not a teacher, but a student who likes to go depht.(sorry, i have a broken english...) Im a physioterapist with experiences in body counciouss techniques, and was a dancer also...and have raja yoga practiques (brahma kumaris meditation
I love hot yoga but always feeling the instructions are not safe...always feeling something is missing in this very nice and beautiful technique...
I think u are doing a huge and very helpfull work!!!(and u are a dentist!)U are completing with the dephts missing things...
congratulations, congratulations!!!!
im a brasilian one who stay in India in the last 2 years and maby one day could go to Australia to do some courses with u!!
sorry again about my english,
have a nice day!!!
Claudia
Hi Gabrielle,
many thanks for all the great work you're putting in. I have just recently decided that
i'm quitting my career as a builder to train as a yoga teacher, and this video is very helpful in what I should expect and how to present myself clearly. Thank you once again m'dear!
Kevin
Hi Gabrielle,
many many thanks for a great job. i have been practicing for 12 years now and i am so ready to attend the yoga teacher training for awhile now; however, not only the financial issue but most importantly i thought that i won't be able to pick up the dialogue.
this video 1 really helps me a lot to understand the postures and helps me prepare to become a yoga teacher in the future.
thanks a lot..you're awesome.
Thess
Hi Gabrielle!
I'd love to see this material offered as a iPad app! You have so much good information to share with teachers and students! I love your work...it has helped open up my practice in so many ways!
Thanks for your contributions to all of us!
Hi Dana - thanks for that suggestion - and you will be pleasantly surprised in the not-to distant future!
I'm also working on getting these videos to stream in the iPad browser (next week should have that done), as they already do at HotYogaDoctor.com ... we will have these available for download too in mp4 format and they play OK on my iPad using AirSharing (iTunes doesn't always like the higher quality videos unfortunately)
Thanks for the wonderful feedback for Gabrielle - she works so hard, so I'm happy to hear it's making a difference for you!
Robert
Awesome! I can't wait!
Great video, the chunking, was a great thing to use.
Anders
Thank you so much. Not only was your video creative and interesting ( which was the perfect companion to your message about die-hard scripting) As I deepen my understanding of a pose or slight adjustment......Im always able to relate it back to the standard script and say, oh, so thats why they that. However it is definitely conversations like the ones you create and offer, or an instructor who strays from the script and adds a relevant explanation or exaggerated demo.......that really inspires and leads me deeper. If the standard script can be seen as a straw dog of an outline........yea for those of you who bring the crayons !!! Thank you for what you do.
Thank you so much for sharing these videos,even though I am a real novice with only two months of Bikram yoga under my
belt, i found this video really insightful from a students point of view also. I must say in praise of my Yoga Studio " Bikram Yogar Fairview, Dublin" that nearly all of our teachers seem like they may have read some of your tips as they all pay attention to new
students and indeed those progressing constantly correcting in the most consturctive way poses that students may be
struggling with or that they see are incorrect. But what you have had to say in this video is really useful for students also in how they to about their practice and interpreting the teaching dialogue. Many thanks
Jane
Your mind is amazing....thank you for being here for us.....
Fantastic stuff. As a Col in the USMC, I am constantly teaching and training on the importance of understanding how the mind works in order to be able to master the tactical techniques necessary to operate under maximum stress. That can NOT happen without mastery of training techniques and BREATH control, which I use your tapes to demonstrate! Our slogan is "maximum efficiency under maximum stress"...and your constant emphasis on integrating understanding of learning techniques and psychology in the Yoga pursuit is both exceptional and lacking from so many other instructors. I can honestly say I have deepened my practice a hundred fold in the year I have been doing your tapes and website...YOU are exceptional. Keep up the excellent work.
You are amazing! I am not a hot yoga teacher, but I am in education. I loved this style of sharing your information for
the visual learner. I would love to attend a hot yoga class, where there was video and an instructor with words on the screen, etc.
I belong to Sunstone Yoga and feel that this would help their classes as well!
Thank you so much
I loved all the great information. As a new hot yoga teacher I appreciate all the information. Blessings,Kathi
Hi Gabrielle,
I've been using your masterclass material for a while now so I'm looking forward to checking out your videos. Unfortunately, like quite a few people here I can't open or download it - any techo clues?
Cheers
Karin
Superb information. You not only give great information but your teaching style makes it easier to learn and retain.
Thank you
cool swing
Very informative. I hadnt realized that the instructors are so worried about their "lines". That explains why some are more helpful than others in making adjustments with students. I assume its true than, that the more experienced teachers can help out more. I really love and appreciate it when they do this, as it doesnt happen often enough.
Great info for instructors, not so helpful for students.
I HAVE RECENTLY DISCOVERED HOT YOGA AND WOW!!.LOVE IT... YOUR VIDEO HAS HELPED ME WITH THE BREATH AND POSES CAN'T WAIT TO TRY THIS TOMORROW...THANK YOU..DI .
So happy to be of service Di!
Keep me posted. I want to know how you go.
Such amazing feedback! I receive it with humble thanks, motivated greatly to keep on raising the bar.
Namaste to you all
Gabrielle
Thank you Gabrielle!
This is fabulous! I too was disappointed with teacher training and the lack of detail oriented direction . Your techniques are exactly what I have been looking for, adding precision and depth to the teaching experience. I love your book and the video series. Keep up the great work! Claudia
Thank you so much for your input.... I am new to yoga.. although I have an excellent instructor ... who obviously follows these rules... I really enjoyed the chunking, can be appled to so many other things.
Shelley
looking forward to seeing the other video's ...
I get the audio but no picture
Breath was always a problem for me, thank you for phrasing the process in such a way as to reach my understanding.
Great video and great information. Will apply chunking in my learning, thanks. Also pose helpers.The breathing technique I am using in practice already and it keeps the flow going and focus on the breath instead of the wandering mind. Thank you for sharing all this info Gabrielle.
Great information Gabrielle! I especially liked your ideas on "chunking" thoughts to help organize them better in our minds. I also liked what you said about flowing the class. When I take a class I enjoy the classes most that flow the best! When teaching a class I am paying close attention to creating a flow and keeping it flowing throughout the class without getting sidetracked. Again great information, thanks for taking the time to make this learning video for all of us. Thanks for sharing.
it keeps showing no video found or access denied. really need to watch the vdo, plan tell me how. thanks.
Thank you so much Gabrielle, It was wonderful knowing about the chunks made me sit up even more straight and smile to know because with out me noticing I kind of did that but I didn't think of going deeper into chunking
Not assuming openned my eyes up, yes some times I assume people know this already>
Thank you for all thr effort u r going through to help us.
I wait your emails and get so excited opening them sure I will learn new things.
I have asked my son who is studying in the states to order your DVD'S as well as the your guide book
Very interesting. looking forward to the next one.
Amazing work!! Thanks a lot!!!
I'm so honored I found the Hot Yoga website with this adorable teacher.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart ~ what you have tought me and all I have learned.
God bless you today, tomorrow and always... Romy
Namasthe !
A wonderful video. The narrations are excelled, particularly the breathing part. Generally, the instructors leave this point.
A great job. A great service to YOGA and Yogic fraternity.
Om Shanti OM !!
Namasthe
sashidharan
Hi Gabrielle,
Thanks so much for creating this series. I recently started teaching hot yoga at my health club since they added a hot studio. I've been teaching Power Vinyasa for years now, and I am fairly new to hot yoga, having never taken a training for it, simply taking classes and reading books. I find your advice to be so helpful and valuable. When I was learning the sequence myself, I naturally found it was easier to "chunk" it to remember all the poses, though my chunking was a little different from yours!
Thanks again!
Carmen
I'll be watching this video multiple times to get it all down...thank you for such great info!
Thank you for this wonderful video. These are techniques I try to incorporate into my classes. You have confirmed, for me, the importance of guiding students with instructions on breath. That is one thing most of my students acknowledge to me. That they appreciate being reminded of how and when to breathe as well as adjusting into poses because they are so focused on certain things that sometimes they forget to breathe.
Once explained, it all seems so perfectly logical!!!
Thank you for the video, I have been teaching for about 2 years now and enjoy the opportunity to continue to enhance and strengthen my teaching and practice. Specifically in this video I liked the information on the breathing, much of the breathing information is in the dialogue but it helps to hear in explained in another way to keep it fresh. Thanks again.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge Gabrielle. I've been very fortunate to have known some excellent instructors in yoga and other group exercise classes as well. I've adopted some of their teaching methods. While watching the video, it became evident that they incorporated "chunking" and kept their instructions concise. I look forward to seeing the other videos soon.
Thank you very much,Gabrielle!I`m new to yoga,sometimes it`s difficult to do some postures but with your explanation everything seems so easy. I`m trying to apply your advice at all time and it works. Thank you very much for your work.
Gabrielle -
This is a great video - it really helps to have a technique to use for how to approach breaking down all this material.
I am so looking forward to Costa Rica (with a healthy amount of trepidation mixed in, naturally) and these videos make me feel good about the financial and personal commitment that I've made for your teacher training in May!
Thank you and Namaste.