🧘🏻‍♀️Your Posture. Your Power.🦸🏻‍♀️

Elodie Abadie • 31 mars 2025

🧘🏻‍♀️Your Posture. Your Power.🦸🏻‍♀️

Teaching yoga is not just about guiding asanas or correcting postures. It is about embodying a subtle and powerful role — a form of presence that goes far beyond technical instruction. It’s a personal commitment, an inner posture that is physical, mental, emotional, relational, and ethical.

Your teaching posture is what gives meaning to your presence as a teacher. It connects your personal journey to your role as a guide. It cannot be imitated — it is discovered, shaped, and refined over time, through practice, experience, and human connection.

1. What is the teaching posture? A way of being in the world and with others

Your teaching posture is the living expression of how you embody your role as a teacher. It transcends technique to become a state of aligned presence, rooted in your values and experience.


It rests on several essential foundations:

  • The alignment between what you live, what you practice, and what you teach.
  • The clarity of your teaching intention: Why do you teach? What do you want to share? With what energy?
  • The sensitive listening to your students: reading bodies, silences, emotions, and unspoken needs.
  • The awareness of your relational positioning: neither authoritarian nor overly accommodating, but grounded, kind, and embodied.


Your teaching posture is both an inner compass and a way of connecting with the world. It keeps you centered while staying in service to others.



2. Your physical posture: the art of embodying presence

Your body speaks before you say a word. It is your first teaching tool. A stable, grounded, and open physical posture naturally inspires trust, respect, and safety.


🔹 Stand tall, feet rooted to the earth, spine lengthened, shoulders relaxed.
🔹 Breathe slowly and calmly to create a peaceful energetic field in the room.
🔹 Be mindful of your gestures, your movements, your gaze — everything you do communicates nonverbally to your students.


💡 Before each class, take a moment to ground yourself. Feel your connection to the earth, breathe, and set your teaching energy.


3. Your energetic posture: what you radiate without words

Beyond your physical stance, you radiate energy. Your internal state directly influences the classroom atmosphere. A stressed or scattered teacher creates tension in the group. A calm, centered, joyful teacher radiates peace, trust, and clarity.


🔹 Enter the room with a clear intention: I am here to serve, share, and guide.
🔹 Take care of your energy: regular practice, mindful nutrition, quality sleep, meditation.
🔹 Learn to adjust your energy depending on the group: energize, soothe, contain, or open as needed.


🌀 Teaching posture is also about “holding space” with discernment and grace.


4. Your pedagogical posture: aligning form and essence

Your teaching posture also shows in how you teach — your pedagogy. It includes how you structure your classes, the words you use, and the rhythm you set.


To be pedagogically aligned:

  • Clarify your teaching style: dynamic? introspective? anatomy-focused? spiritual?
  • Use simple, inclusive, precise language.
  • Adapt your speech and content to your group’s level, culture, and needs.
  • Build clear yet flexible class structures, leaving room for intuition and adaptation.


🎓 Your pedagogy should be the reflection of your true self — not a copy of another teacher. It grows with experience, feedback, supervision, and ongoing learning.


5. Your relational posture: teaching means being in connection

Teaching yoga is entering a human relationship. You create a space of trust, respect, and openness. The quality of connection you build with your students lies at the heart of your posture.


  • Welcome every body, emotion, and difference with non-judgment 
  • Set a clear and safe framework: timing, instructions, physical/emotional boundaries 
  • Practice active listening to verbal and non-verbal feedback 
  • Maintain your position: You are a guide — not a guru or therapist.


💬 Your relational posture allows each student to feel seen, respected, and supported on their journey.


6. Your ethical posture: a profound responsibility

Teaching yoga comes with an ethical responsibility. As a teacher, you are responsible for honoring the tradition while embodying your truth — without projection, manipulation, or appropriation.


  • 🙏 Practice what you teach. Stay in integrity.
  • 🕉️ Respect the roots and lineages of the yoga tradition.
  • 🗣️ Cite your sources and inspirations. Avoid plagiarism or superficial repetition.
  • 🌿 Remain humble — teaching doesn’t give you power over others.


🤍 Authenticity is your best protection. Teach from a place of truth, not from ego or the need for recognition.


7. Your evolving posture: a lifelong transformation

Your teaching posture is not static. It evolves with you — through your personal growth, your practice, and your lived experiences.


🔹 Observe what flows and what resists in your classes.
🔹 Seek out constructive feedback. Be willing to reflect and revise.
🔹 Keep learning, keep exploring, keep growing.
🔹 Embrace the doubts, the transitions, the discomforts — they are signs of transformation.


🌱 Your teaching posture is a mirror of your humanity. It is nourished by your vulnerability as much as your skill.


8. Cultivating your teaching posture daily

To keep your posture alive and evolving, integrate these daily practices into your life:

  • 🧘‍♀️ Maintain a regular personal practice (asana, pranayama, meditation).
  • 📓 Keep a teaching journal: track your insights, questions, observations.
  • 📖 Read, train, explore new perspectives continuously.
  • 🤝 Seek mentorship, feedback, or supervision to gain new clarity.
  • 🌀 Stay connected with a community of fellow teachers for mutual support.


💡 Your posture is like a garden: it needs light, silence, attention, and sometimes pruning to flourish.


Conclusion: Your posture is your voice, your vibration, your gift

Finding your teaching posture means discovering your unique way of being in service. It’s not a fixed role — but a living dynamic between structure and softness, guidance and listening.


💫 You’re not only transmitting postures — you’re transmitting presence.
💖 Be aligned. Be authentic. Be alive.
🌍 Be in service of your students and in service of the living wisdom of yoga.


Teaching yoga is being both pillar and passageway, container and breath. It’s a human and spiritual adventure — demanding, yes, but deeply fulfilling.


Namaste 🪷


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