Coding an Interview

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Hello Katie

Hi

Thank you very much for coming in today

Yeh, of course

And so today we’re going to have a little bit of on interview

Ok

Erm the main thing, I just want to really establish, er, what brought you to yoga teaching

Sure

And so just a few line of questioning into that

Yea

Are you good with that today?

Yea of course

Excelent, so, when did you first start yoga?

Er, I first started yoga when I was 16 or 17, um, so a few years ago

(Both laugh)

And uh, originally I used to be a dancer. Um so I kind of already knew that I liked um, kind of the flow of the yoga class but I had really just not really given it a shot. So my sister had started doing yoga and said come do a yoga class with me and, and yea the rest was history after that

Ok, so, it was your sister’s influence really

Yea, er my sister’s my best friend so she heavily influenced me (laughs)

No, brilliant

Which is great

Yea, yea, that’s lovely. Erm and so how did you know, erm, you wanted to be a yoga teacher?

Yea so the first yoga class that I went to with my sister, erm, I didn’t have a mat, I didn’t have, you know, any of the necesaties basically, for doing yoga. And when I went home that day, um, I orderd a yoga mat online and got a sweat towel and all of that. So it was kind of an immediate love of practicing yoga. Um and again my sister, er, decided she was going to do yoga teacher training, um, and as I continued to practice and um see lots of the benefits in my own self just, um, I mean physically, mentally, spiritually, er, lots of growth and I just decided that I wanted to share that with other people

Ok, brilliant, that’s lovely. Ok, so the next question is, er, can you tell me a little bit about your typical yoga class?

Yea so, um, in the typical yoga class usually it’s about an hour long. Um, I  don’t usually do any of the class with my students, I just kind of queue them into postures, then if, um, there’s some confusion or you know, you kind of read the class. Um but yea, so it’s 60 minutes, we start with some breathing exercises, some sun salutations and um, usually towards the middle of the class there’s some, a peak posture, so something that we’ve been working on, building up to throughout the class. And then, again, it kind of comes down slowly relaxing and you end with a 5 minute chivasana, which is just relaxation, lying there and, um, meditating

That sounds really nice, I’d like to give that a go

(both laugh)

Erm, so how do you feel when you are teaching?

(Katie gives a happy, reflective sigh)

It’s, it’s hounestley one of the best feelings, it’s um, not like anything else really for me. I don’t particularly enjoy talking in front of people, I’m not a very extroverted person. But when I walk into a yoga class and um, and it’s almost empowering for me but I almost get such energy from my students. So watching my students grow, you know, as they come class after class again, um, seeing them master a posture that they never thought they’d be able to achieve it’s, it’s a gift really.

It must be quite empowering

It is yea, yea it’s, it’s, it’s the best feeling

Excellent, erm and so what are the challenges of being a yoga teacher?

Yea so, one of the challenges , but also kind of er, one of the things I enjoy about yoga teaching is, I try to make each class different. So I don’t follow, erm, a specific set of sequences, er I, every class is totally different so hopefully someone’s learning something new, each time that they come to a class. So that’s a challenge but also fun, coming up with new sequences and um, thinking to myself, how can I get my students ready for this though posture? What do I need to do to open up their hips or, you know, warm up their spine before they try a back bend. So things like that are challenging but it’s also fun for me

Yea, so all the challenges are fun

Yea, yea

Ok, excellent, and so what is your favourite part of teaching?

Again, I think my favourite part is watching my students grow and building a relationship with my students too is erm, is something I really enjoy. It’s it’s fun to have regulars in my class now, that I know by name and they know me and I know a bit about whats going on in their lives erm, and I know why they’re coming to yoga and what they like in a class erm, so that’s really really fun. But yea, it’s really fun to see progress, to see them be excited about changes with their body to their mind

Yea

Um, that’s probably my favourite thing about teaching

Alright, brilliant, well that’s lovely, well thank you very much for having this talk with me today…