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Welcome to the March newsletter for yoga teachers.

My article this month is about: Technology and yoga teaching - minimising the negative side of technology and maximising its benefits.

Our next yoga teacher networking meeting on Zoom is this Saturday 7th March - see below.

Love and blessings,

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🤷🏻 Article: Technology and teaching yoga

👉 News and resources: Yoga teacher get-together dates

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Article:

Technology and teaching yoga

Juggling the pros and cons

Computers are hard to avoid these days. In fact it’s not easy to live without IT, what with online banking, internet shopping, and instant navigation to wherever you want to go.

We all now carry a powerful personal computer around with us in the form of a mobile phone. We can find information more easily than ever before – sometimes so much information that we have to use a high degree of discernment.

Technology can be a great time-saver and can help us in our work as yoga teachers. We can print registers to use in class, create handouts, keep digital records, email students, run a website, or use social media. Some use online booking systems and others like myself offer online courses.

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How much time do you spend in front of a screen?

And how does your brain feel if you use a computer for a period of time?

Over the last month or so I’ve been moving the website from one platform to another. When you go to www.yogauk.com it won't look much different, though you might notice some minor changes. I’m currently ironing out any last wrinkles - do let me know if you come across any errors!

As the site is now in a new place, the next time you log in to a course, you'll need to reset your password. Simply go to log-in and put in your email address as usual, then click on ‘Forgot password’. You'll receive an email which will invite you to reset your password. Any current course subscriptions should be just as they were, so you can pick up your course where you left off.

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Active mind - static body

Getting all this in place has required hours of sitting at my computer, while at the same time thinking and problem-solving.

It's been interesting to do that and to notice the effects. As expected, when I stand up my body feels stiff, my mind feels foggy, and I feel generally fatigued.

The way I’ve been managing this situation, is to make sure that I get up and away from the screen regularly. Stretches and finger exercises then happen spontaneously! And I periodically lie down to rest, or use short practices of deep breathing or meditation when needed.

It's been good to experience what many people have to deal with 5 days a week, and a reminder of what happens to your body and mind when you have a lot of continuous screen time.
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How do you use IT?

I'm looking forward to seeing some of you on Saturday at the yoga teacher get together on Zoom. Always a lovely way to use technology!

As well as any other topic that is brought to the table, I'm interested to talk about IT – both the positives and negatives. How do you use it most effectively? What effect does screen time have on you? And how do you manage that?

Meeting in person to practice yoga together is of course the ideal, but Zoom allows us to meet with people geographically separated. My online class also attracts people who prefer to practice at home for one reason or another, such as ill health, or caring responsibilities.

I notice differences in how I feel after my in-person class and my Zoom class. There's a different type of energy to each of them.

On Zoom I simply have to turn my computer and lighting on, and log in, as well as sending out the Zoom link by email earlier in the day, and then sending the link to the recording afterwards. Easy.

My in-person class is half an hour longer, I have to drive 20-25 minutes each way, and often people stay behind to chat or ask questions, so there’s more time and effort involved.

My brain is always tired at the end of any class these days! And I always need to take rest afterwards. But what I notice is that when I've finished teaching in person, along with the tiredness, there’s an uplift of energy on a different level, even though that class takes more of my time and effort.

My guess is that this is to do with the more natural and nuanced interactions we have with people in person, as well as being in a whole room situation rather than focusing on a small rectangular 2-dimensional space. I’d be interested to hear about your experiences with this.

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Staying in balance in a changing world

As yogis we have some impactful practices at our disposal to help us stay in balance as our lives change with developments in technology.

For myself, I'm working on ways to simplify, to use IT in a more time-efficient way, and to use it to enable more collaboration with others.

If you're interested in having your own online course that you can sell or to share with your students or use for marketing purposes, do check out my free online course that you'll see on the website: How to Create Your Own Online Yoga Course. You can access this (free) short course from the home page at www.yogauk.com​

As we go forward into the unknown future, in a world that seems volatile and fast-changing on many levels, we need to stay grounded and adaptable. I've always felt so grateful to have had yoga to hold on to in turbulent times.

With this in mind, the theme for my yoga classes this term is ‘holding and letting go’ - cultivating detachment, discernment, awareness, acceptance and the flexibility to adapt and stay calm in the face of change.

If you’d like to share what you are focusing on in your teaching at the moment, please do come along to our Zoom get-together. It’s always inspiring to hear about what other teachers are doing and how it’s going.

I’d love to hear from you too if you’re making any changes in your work as a yoga teacher, and if or how the YogaUK website could help or support you in any way. How could IT or an additional online presence support your work or make your life easier? Are you looking for a new string to your bow?

There are some new courses in the pipeline that you might like, and I’m considering reinstalling (in a different form) the yoga teacher directory that I took down a few years ago.

I’m very open to ideas, suggestions and collaborations at the moment as I’m reviewing the site as a whole. If you’d like to collaborate to create your own online course, or if some support for your own project would be useful to you, please do get in touch by replying to this email.

Springtime is on its way! It’s a great time for letting go of dead wood and making space for new growth. Wishing you many blessings for the new growing season.

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News and resources

Yoga Teacher Networking meetings

These sessions are short impactful meetings designed to connect and support us all in our yoga teaching. Make a note of the dates in your diary and join us at a session to share, listen, and get inspired:

• Saturday 7th March 2026 at 10-11am
• Saturday 9th May 2026 at 10-11am

Our friendly get-togethers are open to all yoga teachers and are free of charge. You'll receive an invitation by email the day before, if you are subscribed to this newsletter. (To unsubscribe from the invitations, select Preferences at the bottom of this email.)

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Resources:

👉 BWY Foundation Course online - a deeper dive for serious yoga students alongside their weekly classes. Starting September 2026. Email yogauk@gmail.com for a course information pack. An overview of the course can be found here.​

👉 Essential Anatomy and Physiology for Yoga Teaching online study - more information here​

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