Instructor Support for Online Resources

Here is information that has helped many instructors to engage Breema's online resources whether as a participant in a class, co-instructing in a class, setting up a Self-Breema Class online, or supporting students to participate in an online Self-Breema class. We hope it supports you.

Getting Started with Breema's online resources  

Teaching Self-Breema Online

Outreach & Followup

Getting Started with Breema's online resources

 

Update your profile at breema.com

The Breema Center has updated the website and we now have multiple ways for potential students to locate you on the site including a listing and a map. The Breema Center promotes all classes on the breema.com webpage through various sources. The website is a great place for potential students to find instructors in their region which could be you. Each Instructor now has access to their own profile page with the option of an anonymous contact field. Update your profile information with a photo, a bio, your favorite quote, and/or your website. Lastly, activate your personalized alias "breema.com/yourname" to make it easier for students to find your information and events online. 

 

Check out Instructor Resources Online

The Breema Center has a variety of online tools to support Breema Instructors and Self-Breema Instructors including videos and notes for each sequence and exercise, updated handbooks, audio streaming, and helpful guides to setting up your Breema events and Self-Breema events on the website.

 

Find Classes in-person or online

The Breema Center has a listing of classes that includes both in-person and online from Instructors around the world. Post your event, attend an event, or share the link.

 

Online Support for Zoom for Participants

An online Self-Breema class may be a new venture for participants who may need extra support to participate comfortably. Participants who are unfamiliar with Zoom or have technical difficulties connecting, hearing, or seeing can find support by visiting the following public link.

 

Teaching Self-Breema Online

 

Letter from Jon Schreiber March 20, 2020

  • Dear Instructors,

    We hope this finds you well and that Breema and its principles have been a support for you in this period. Recently, people have asked the Center about the possibility of instructing Self-Breema in an online setting. The Breema Center has decided to allow Self-Breema and Breema Instructors to present Self-Breema in online venues provisionally during these exceptional times. We are planning to monitor and evaluate the effects/results, and based on our findings, either continue or modify our policy. 

    Since in most areas, actual in-person classes are temporarily not possible, the "virtual" class may be the best available option for many people. We hope that those who study and practice Self-Breema in this way will understand that the potential benefits of attending an actual class are far greater, and will do so when circumstances again permit that. Ultimately, Self-Breema must be learned live — the way that all of us did.

    Meanwhile, here are a number of guidelines and  suggestions that we ask Instructors to follow to help everyone have a more beneficial experience. These are all in the direction of maintaining a harmonious atmosphere:
    1. If you haven’t held an online class before, practice with friends or fellow Breema Instructors to make sure that the experience will be a technically smooth one, both for you and for your students.
    2. The "classroom" environment and appearance is important. Please make sure the room that you are presenting from is not visually overwhelming or distracting and, of course, clean. A simple background is helpful.
    3. We suggest wearing solid color clothing, and making sure to minimize exposed skin. If you're not wearing a gi, it is best to wear long pants, socks and long sleeves. 
    4. Make sure to eliminate or minimize sounds coming from other parts of the house/apartment.
    5. Before beginning the class, let the students know that they can adjust the volume. Offer support about which orientation (vertical or horizontal) is preferable for their device if you know. Let them know they can tell you if there is a sound or buffering problem.
    6. As always, please show Self-Breema exercises that you have practiced a lot, which you relate to well, and "have in your body." It's always worthwhile (and sometimes a surprise!) to double check that you know the form precisely by looking up the exercises you wish to show and watching them on the Instructor Self-Breema Video Library. 
    7. Remember, you can let your students know there are helpful resources on the Breema Center website, information about Breema and inspirational material about the Principles, and Essence of Breema excerpts.

    Since this is a new step for all of us, please let us know when you come upon some useful information or something from your experience that may be of value for other instructors. We wish you, and those who learn and practice Self-Breema with you great benefit!

    We, of course, welcome your resumes.

    All the best,
    Jon

 

Essential Support for Online Self-Breema Classes

Compiled from months of online instructing and staffing experiences since April 2020, this list of tips for creating atmosphere in an online class has been an enormous support for keeping the purpose of these classes "in view."

 

Starting a Self-Breema Class Online

If you are inspired to start your own Self-Breema Class online, here is a step by step  guide to support you.

 

Setup and Tech Support for your Self-Breema Class on Zoom

If you have started a Self-Breema Class online but need more support with the online class setup or technical issues.

 

Staffing a Self-Breema Class Online

Online Self-Breema classes often need the support of someone to admit participants, answer questions in the chat box, mute or unmute participants or instructors, or spotlight instructors if there are more than one. We have compiled a helpful step by step list with tips on how to staff a class.

Outreach & Followup

 

Find Promotional Materials Online

The Breema Center has promotional materials for upcoming events that can be printed, emailed, and/or shared across a variety of social media platforms. If you would like to access promotional materials for an event that you are participating in and need another format or timezone, please email a request to center@breema.com.

 

Engage your Social Network Online

The Breema Center has a presence on many social media platforms. Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest are all platforms that we have active campaigns that support the essential Breema teaching as well as promoting Breema Center events.

 

Benefit from Self-Breema Notes

Self-Breema notes can be an additional support for students participating in an online class. The document "Benefiting from Self-Breema Notes" can accompany those notes being sent to beginning students who may need more support to know the purpose and direction of using Self-Breema notes. 

 

Benefit from writing a Breema Resume

Writing a resume for your Self-Breema class, whether co-instructing or hosting the class, supports you to clearly see your experience. Often, the atmosphere of the class becomes alive for you while you are writing and you benefit by it a second time. Your resume is not only a great way to stay connected to your experience but it also connects you and your teaching activity to the Center, as it is read by senior staff members at the Breema Center.