Yogaglamgirl on Trusting Your Practice as a Yoga Teacher

So I'm back from a delightful yoga retreat. I learned a lot from the 4 different master teachers at the conference. What kept coming up for me as I experienced the variations in teaching style was that it was just that...varied. Yes, three of the four teachers were students of BKS Iyengar himself. Yet each had their own learnings and interpretatations of what he taught them. These interpretations become teaching styles flavored by their own unique and personal experiences as a practicing yogi.
As a yoga teacher, this brought great relief. I was reminded that there is no one correct way to teach yoga to students. All that I can offer as a teacher is the best of what I have learned from my teachers mixed with my own rich personal practice and experiences of health and structural alignment.

Amy Cunningham touches on this point of diversity in yoga teaching and a desire to make peace amoungst all the different teachers who think their style of yoga is best. In A Peach Speech to Yoga Teachers she quotes John Friend who is speaking at a yoga conference:

There's good in everything... And we all have our own path. It's important to always look for the good, for the highest in all. May we be positive examples.