#7 - The Yoga Teacher's Role - Yoga in Spain with Almudena Laborda Galindo

Welcome to Episode #7 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Almudena Laborda Galindo onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Spain, who leads international yoga retreats. Almudena and I are connected through Punyah Yoga in Rishikesh. While we haven’t met in person, we became fast friends online as we are both consider India to be a kind of second home— especially Rishikesh. Almudena’s passion for India as the root source of yoga is clear. In our conversation, we discuss Almudena’s journey in yoga, her opinions on what yoga in India teaches Western students, and how to honor the essence of yoga, as a teacher, in your yoga classes. What to expect in Episode #7 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Almudena believes that it is the responsibility of the yoga teacher to transmit the spiritual practice of yoga. Teachers who are only taught during yoga teacher training during anatomy, alignment, or asana this is what they are going to transmit. If they are in front of a student in the role of a teacher, then they should go deeper and deeper in this practice. I found that this part of our conversation was the most moving— the responsibilities of a yoga teacher. We also discuss transcending the physical part of yoga. As Almudena says, “Doing an inversion is nothing.” Flexibility is not the goal of yoga, and Almudena definitely drives that home. Yoga is a tool for connecting the individual self to the superior self, and as a path to self-awareness and realization. For the skimmers - What’s in the Yoga in Spain episode? What it’s like to hold yoga retreats abroad and in Spain The asana is the most attractive but it’s not the point of yoga What we should seek in yoga is enquiries: Who am I? What is my purpose? (17:55) The role of the teacher is to go deeper and deeper into the practice Yoga is tool to know about ourselves Learning an inversion is nothing, being flexible is nothing We are not independent individuals, we are part of the whole system, we are all connected as one Transcend the physical part of yoga, and you will realize that yoga is more relevant in our daily life Connect with Almudena www.yogaholidays.es www.malaguru.es https://www.instagram.com/almudena.yoga/ https://www.instagram.com/yogaholidays.es/ https://www.instagram.com/malaguru.es Want more? Head on over to my website https://wildyogatribe.com/thepodcast/ Questions? Comments? Let's get social! https://www.instagram.com/wildyogatribe/ https://www.facebook.com/wildyogatribe https://twitter.com/wildyogatribe Mediate with me: https://insig.ht/6gFTaXHlogb Flow with me: https://www.youtube.com/c/WildYogaTribe Book a private yoga or meditation class with me: https://wildyogatribe.com/yogaclasses/ Everything you need is just one click away! Check out all the resources here: https://linktr.ee/wildyogatribe