Face to Face: The Student-Teacher Relationship and Private Yoga Classes

The student-teacher relationship is at the heart of learning and teaching Yoga. This article discusses issues arising from that relationship such as the importance of boundaries, the power of clarity, and the need the student has to be heard and understood not only with the mind but with the heart. Bringing modern-day understandings to the student-teacher relationship can serve to integrate Yoga into our culture as well as to protect the student and the teacher as they commit together to the practice of Yoga.