10/23/25 Live Session Recording
This week’s session offered such a powerful blend of reflection and practical application—beginning with the final reflection presentations from a previous cohort, and then moving into a deep exploration of facilitation approaches, group dynamics, and teaching with awareness and adaptability.
As always, you’re invited to share what resonated most for you from this session—what moments, ideas, or insights stood out as meaningful or relevant to your own practice or facilitation journey.
If you find prompts supportive, here are a few you might consider:
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Reflection on Integration:
How did watching the previous cohort’s final reflections influence your vision for your own facilitation or future practice? What stood out about the way they integrated yoga philosophy, trauma-informed principles, and lived experience? -
Facilitation Awareness:
During our dialogue, we discussed adapting facilitation for individuals with diverse experiences and needs. What approaches or reminders feel most important for you as you prepare to guide others? -
Personal Practice Connection:
How are you currently balancing learning, self-care, and practice? What does it look like to apply the same compassion and adaptability you offer to others in your own process of growth?
There’s no “right” way to reflect—feel free to respond to one of these prompts, or simply share any thoughts or feelings that surfaced for you as you revisited this session.
Here is the additional slide presentation shared during this live session.
- Reflection on Integration
Watching the previous cohort’s reflections was inspiring. It showed how deeply people embody the teachings in their own ways, whether through teaching, service, or personal healing. Seeing how they wove yoga philosophy and trauma-informed principles into real-life contexts helped me imagine more clearly how I want to show up as a facilitator, with empathy, grounding, and authenticity guiding everything I do. - Facilitation Awareness
The biggest reminder for me was to stay adaptable and responsive rather than attached to a plan. Every group and every person carries a different story and nervous system state, so presence and flexibility are essential. I want to continue cultivating the skill of reading a room, meeting energy with awareness, and creating space for everyone to feel safe and seen. - Personal Practice Connection
I’m recovering from surgery right now, so my personal practice is minimal, but I’ve been returning to teaching with deep intention and gratitude. Guiding others has become part of my healing process, reminding me to move with patience, presence, and care. I’m learning to honor rest as practice too, allowing healing itself to be a form of yoga.
As a former school teacher, I found it interesting how many of the Facilitation Awareness ideas correlated to effective teaching strategies. The first thing we do as school teachers is assess students' academic levels. It's essential to know where they are so we can meet them there. Additionally, we are constantly taking the class "pulse" on their understanding of a new concept. We have to know when to stop and re-teach something or reiterate an idea before we can continue on. We also need to recognize when they a need a quick "break" to they can come back to learning focused. Additionally, we need to be mindful of students who are going ahead and moving too quickly, potentially missing important concepts that will end up confusing them in the long run. As educators we are skilled at recognizing and providing accommodations or modifications to diverse learners. We do all of this while promoting a positive classroom culture and a community where safety and belonging are felt by all. These practices are not just done with academics, but also behavior needs and character development. At the end of the day, the closure of a unit or lesson, when a test is given, or the grades have been finalized, we reflect on the effectiveness of our teaching. We ask, how could I have delivered this information differently, in a way that more students would understand? How could I have engaged them more in the learning process? Which lessons, projects, assignments, or units will I change and improve for next year's students? How could I have challenged the high achieving student? How could I have prevented students from failing? It's the reflection that drives our growth as successful educators. The skills for effective teaching in a classroom and teaching in a yoga room are transferrable. My experience as a teacher has prepared me to be an effective yoga facilitator.