Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses

The book is absolutely a gem if you are looking for ideas about themes, how to execute and most importantly, what to say while teaching, while pausing etc. Lot of philosophy added to take one from gross to subtle while on mat. Great book! One of the best purchases of mine.

Thais book os full of subjects that we may think about and use with friends, students,..

I love this book! I'm a yoga teacher and I've worked really hard creating themes for my classes. This book lays out the themes so clearly, with such detail (including quotes, songs, etc), that they are ready-made for teaching classes. There's 54 themes, so a year's worth of classes is ready made for you. I was worried about using the material for fear of plagiarism, but the authors are very clear in explaining that the material presented is generously fully available for the reader's use. I've had fellow teachers say that theming is too hard, but in addition to the wealth of complete themes, the authors give tips on how to start writing themes for classes ourselves as well as "inspirational prompts" to jumpstart our process. I'd like to add also, that even if you have no desire to teach or teach with themes, many of these themes relate to yoga philosophy and how that philosophy helps to improve our lives by reducing suffering. These ideas are presented in a clear and concise manner that are valuable on their own completely separately from this book being oriented towards helping yoga teachers teach their classes. In order to have a balanced review, I'd just like to mention a small negative criticism. The last section of the book included 54 blank templates for our use to create our own 1 year's worth of class themes. I can understand that some teachers might like having these blank template pages so the classes they create will physically be in the same book with the authors' themes. It could also be helpful for teachers who don't have access to printers so they can't use the template the authors provide on their website. For me, though, it just felt like a big waste of paper because I don't plan on using those pages when I create more themes for my classes. I also could see someone considering buying the book and looking at the length of it and coming up with a conclusion about the value of it based on its length without realizing that about 20% of it is blank (template) pages. For me, it's a fairly minor point. The major point is that it's a great overview of yoga philosophy and messages that I can use for my own understanding as well as a very practical tool to teach with.

Es kommt der Moment, an dem sich die Yoga-lehrende Person uninspiriert und planlos fühlt. Das Buch ist sehr gut geschrieben, bietet gutes Hintergrundwissen (va. welche Themen und Ideen wie aufgebaut werden können). An manchen Stellen wiederholen sich/überschneiden sich die Themen. Ich habe mit der Methodik angefangen meine eigenen Stunden anders zu konzipieren und kann dieses Buch und seine Anleitungen empfehlen.

Nice book but ont useful for experimented teacher.

Bellissimo manuale con infiniti spunti per creare lezioni. Consigliatissimo!