How to Use Music to Enhance Your Teaching with Julie Wilcox for Teachers and Trainees
In this workshop Julie will explore how music can help you to develop your voice and style as a teacher, and how it can enhance the environment and practice for your students. Music can be very beneficial to students, but can also be distracting and disruptive to their practice if not used well.
Over the course of 2 hours you will study the following:
- How to use music to help to define and differentiate your classes
- How to make music an extension of your voice and message
- How music affects the brain, emotions, and mood
- How the breath can act as music
- How music can aid you through the 8 Limbs of yoga or prevent you from moving through them.
- What kind of music would you play to elevate your student’s sprits? Energize them? Move them? Calm them?
- How does your music affect you as a teacher and your capabilities and ability to concentrate?
The class will be part lecture part practice. The practice part will involve you experiencing the different effects music has on you as a student during your practice. It is only via your own experience that you will learn and understand the power of music in yoga.
A portion of the workshop will also welcome you to bring in your own music to experiment with it and see how your use of it influences the class (please note not everyone will have a chance to do this).
Bio:
Julie Wilcox co-founded ISHTA Yoga in 2008 with Alan Finger. She is Executive Director of the studio as well as a senior teacher. Julie was born in New York City and was an Olympic aspiring gymnast through the age of 15. She brings her life-long passion for health and wellness; mind and body to her classes. Julie blends various asana, pranayama and meditation techniques to provide her students with a dynamic, precise, strong, and meaningful vinyasa flow practice. She specializes in power yoga and core flow. She also believes that deep flexibility is essential to an evolved practice. Julie teaches the ISHTA 200 hour and 300 hour teacher trainings in addition to her classes. She is registered with Yoga Alliance of America as an ERYT.
In 1995 a friend introduced Julie to yoga at Jivamukti. She then moved to Los Angeles where her practice was inspired by Sean Corne and Vinnie Marino. When she moved back to NYC, she studied intimately with Alan Finger and senior ISHTA instructor, Jean Koerner. She continues to learn from Alan and Jean as well as many other master teachers to this day.
Julie formerly worked in the media and has an MFA from the American Film Institute. She worked in film production in LA, produced photography for Richard Avedon and Steven Klein, and as a journalist, wrote for The New York Observer, The L.A. Times, and The New York Post. Julie received her BA in English and American Literature from Harvard College.
