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• Teach more locally.
• Become a part of our local community.
• Develop a teaching model more like a yoga teacher, with lots of local classes.
  
  
• Teach online.
• Use Zoom as a way of gathering internationally, and maintaining connection with distant communities (so we can visit less often..).
• Work remotely with a group who are all together in person.
  
  
• Make teaching available through pre-recorded material.
  
  
• Change the paradigm of what it means to be a successful teacher!, so we don’t have to travel long distances to feel valued..
  
  
• Travel by train not plane. (And charge more for the teaching, to offset the extra cost.)
• Say no to invitations that involve flying.
  
  
• Highlight more climate-friendly travel options for participants.
• Facilitate lift-sharing to workshops.
• Design our teaching schedule so people don’t have to travel long distances to dance with us.
• Teach holidays and retreats closer to where our participants live.
  
  
• Ask people to specify how they will travel to a workshop as part of the booking process, and how they intend to offset the carbon they will generate.
• Offer a discount to participants who come by public transport, or more than two in a car.
  
  
• Integrate our visits to other communities with their local programme.
• As ‘senior’ teachers, support and train local teachers to offer more of what we currently teach.

We hope these ideas will spark your creativity!
Do let us know if there’s something you do which we haven’t mentioned.

We each have the power to make a difference.
What could be your next step in this area?

With hope for the planet
The Climate Team 

(You can find the second part of this article here.)