Remember that teacher who made you feel like they were speaking directly to your soul? Not just correcting your posture, but seeing all of you—your struggles, your resistance, your potential? Jim Kallett reveals what separates transformational teaching from mere instruction.

"When I'm standing there talking to teacher trainees, I make it a point to look directly at each person in that audience, right in the eye. This is how you teach this Yoga. You don't teach to the ceiling, you don't teach to the floor. Some teachers say 'teach to the body'—what does that mean? You're not teaching a body, you're teaching to a person. The person isn't just their body. There's a totality to each person."

Here's the profound insight: "There's going to be people like you and not like you, people that like you and don't like you, people that resonate with what you say and people that resist. It has nothing to do with you—it has to do with them."

The mastery requirement is staggering: "You have to look them right in the eye, look at their soul, the totality of them—their body, stance, how they move, how they resist, expressions on their face. You have to do that with every single person in the room."

"You can't do that until you've been teaching 10 years and paying really close attention to see how this Yoga works in the practical world, with the gamut of humanity: every size, shape, age, condition, walk of life, belief system, gender, nationality."

This is why authentic Bikram teaching is so rare: "Yes, the 26 and 2 are important. Yes, the heat and mirrors and carpet are important. But it's the way it's taught that really defines what Bikram Yoga is."

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