Teaching Tips (September 1995)

Art of Teaching

By Cass Redmon, Watsonville, CA

Tips that have worked well for me:

1. As students do Daughter on the Mountain Top I say, “Notice how long your fingers can stay up towards the sky.” This results in a wonderful refinement.

2. Early on to help students maintain their upright posture I ask them to place one hand over their lower back and feel their muscles engage as they lean (too far) forward. This brings new awareness and then I suggest that they let their spines support them rather than their muscles.

3. Since the subtle energies are often a brand new concept to some people, I sometimes have people briskly rub their fingernails together (not the ends) and then hold their palms close together and then notice what they feel as they increase the distance between their hands.

And I heard this recently:

“Love is our sense of aliveness flowing.”