How to get comfortable teaching Yoga online?

With the Covid-19 situation many teachers had to face the challenge to teach your students online. We are sharing here some of the problems we have gone through so you can avoid them and give your students a better experience:⁠⁠

If we tend to be optimistic we may think that our phone / laptop battery will last more than we expect and get disconnected. Having it fully charged or even connected during the class is not a bad idea.⁠

Trying the connection with someone (a friend or maybe a loyal student) some minutes before sharing the links with the class, will help fix sound / light / echoes problems. It helped us save time in the beginning of the class.

⁠Remember that the amount screen that your students will see may depend on the device (f. ex. if you are recording yourself in vertical, the attendants watching in horizontal through the laptop may miss part of the frame). It's good to keep in mind while doing the setup. ⁠

If you like interactive classes (like we do), be realistic with the amount of clear feedback you can get from your students, especially as the number of people in the class grows.⁠

Don't assume your students will have a perfect setup, you will not be able to see fully some of them, or receive their answers. Online we need to take extra care about the clarity and simplicity of our instructions⁠
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Avoid the frier! Some students microphones can be very noisy in the worst moments (friying shavasana?), try to identify at the begining of the class which one is failing and try to fix it or kindly ask him / her to mute it when not required⁠

To conclude the list, some platforms in their free versions (like Zoom) have a timer after which the connection falls down (in Zoom it was 40 minutes). Keep that in mind while planning.⁠
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