Create a Safe Space Quotes

“Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“I have seen yoga teachers, almost in frenzy, looking for something new; new postures, breathing exercises, styles of yoga, teachers and so on. But what are they really searching for? Escape from boredom.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“If you want to increase your self-confidence as a yoga teacher very fast – go out there, face your fears, and teach as much as you possibly can!”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“Self-confidence is built from the inside out and has little or nothing to do with outside circumstances.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“Clear, direct and vibrant instructions will inject energy into the class, and create a feeling of safety for the students.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“Speaking softly and slowly, and breathing through the vocal chords in a low voice, has become the mythical ideal voice for a yoga teacher.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“It’s a really simple formula: Your experience + Yoga = New Students.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“Yoga teachers must be willing to step down from this imagined pedestal and utter the words “I don’t know” on a regular basis.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“My rule in relation to time management and teaching is simple: “If you’re on time, you’re late!” That means that if you arrive just on time to teach, you have no flexibility. In essence nothing can go wrong, and in addition to that, your mind probably won’t settle until halfway through the class.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

“Co-dependency essentially revolves around the sentence: “I am not enough.” A co-dependent person will always need another person to validate their worth, their feelings, their ideas and even their existence. This either shows itself as a need to manipulate and control surroundings; or as a need to bend over backwards to make other people feel good, the reason being that “I can’t feel good if you don’t feel good.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students

“One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn’t necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students

“A person with less knowledge and more self-confidence (which is primarily a way of thinking and acting) will often run circles around a person with more knowledge and less self-confidence; which means that self-confidence has the upper hand to knowledge when it comes to acting in the world. It has been interesting to see many of my star academic students struggle with teaching in the real world, while others who were less qualified in the academic field but had more self-confidence have gone out and positively affected many more people through their teaching.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students

“The yogic scriptures paint a picture of perfection, and perfection can be your aim, but I can tell you sad stories about myself and others who have entered into a state of premature holiness with unpleasant consequences.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students