Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses: A Practical Workbook for Integrating Themes, Ideas, and Inspiration into Your Class
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New yoga teachers are often taught the poses but not themes or phrases that will make students come back and seasoned instructors often want a fresh approach or new theme to explore. Experienced yoga instructors Sage Rountree and Alexandra DeSiato give yoga teachers tools to find a genuine voice and tap into innate wisdom; offer ready-made, detailed themes to use in classes or home practice; and provide guidance and useful, flexible templates for building a toolkit of authentic themes for future use. The workbook begins with a section on voice, authenticity, emulation, phrasing, practice, repetition, and finding inspiration. While offering guidance for new or experienced teachers so that they feel confident speaking from a place of authority and offering their students memorable themes, the authors explore what it means to be authentic and how teachers can approach authenticity without feeling overly exposed or turning their yoga classes into a therapy session. The second section of the book contains 54 complete themes in template form, so instructors can easily use them in a class. These themes are broken down in chapters such as: yoga philosophy, seasonal themes, meditations, quotes, and spiritual ideas and stories from other traditions that translate well to yoga. Each theme is explored in a way that allows teachers to add their own voice, take, and spin. The final section of the book includes gentle advice and prompts with 54 blank templates, so instructors can create their own themes. With a unique angle and a practical feel, this workbook will appeal to yoga teachers, teacher trainers, and at-home practitioners who are moving to the next level.
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Additional information
| Publisher | North Atlantic Books,U.S., Workbook edition (20 May 2019) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 224 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1623173221 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1623173227 |
| Dimensions | 17.81 x 1.42 x 25.32 cm |
by Claire Chant
Love this book, great theme guides, nice layout, nice to read, a great purchase ;0)
by Amazon Customer
LOVE LOVE LOVE this book!
Very inspirational and brings you some beautiful themes ????
by fran p.
This is a fantastic find. As a new yoga teacher it is full of beautuful philosophical themed to weave into your classes. Even provides examples of things you could say that link to the themes. Easy laid out which makes for quick reference. Beautiful book.. excellent quality and bigger than I expected. Highly recommended.
by myddlewoman
Overall could be useful if you are a real beginner at teaching and haven’t been practicing yourself for very long. Some good basic advice but nothing that you wouldn’t learn on a good yoga teacher training programme. Most of the themes they use are based on yoga philosophy and it’s a very superficial approach which is likely to leave your students either confused or with a very trite and superficial understanding.
Also theming your yoga classes can help with marketing them so people can start to understand what the class may cover. This isn’t mentioned.
If you are stuck for yoga theme ideas get a few yoga teachers/ students together and just brain storm ideas. You’ll be amazed what great ideas this generates.
by TrayBon
Some really good practical advice and guidance for yoga teachers and trainees. Lots of inspiring ideas, suggestions and tips to help teachers hone their skills and reflect on their practice. Just one gripe, why include 53 pages of the same lesson plan template?
by Sara Jobling
I like this book it is very accessible -and is a nice tool to help with improving class sequencing and theming.
by Adriana
I loved the clear instruction into the information behind the yoga poses.
Very enjoyable read.
by fran p.
Book was great and really inspiring with ideas on themes. Such a shame that 2 pages fell out within the first week- nothing a bit of sticky tape won’t fix though!