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Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
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Teaching Yoga is an essential resource for new and experienced teachers as well as a guide for all yoga students interested in refining their skills and knowledge. Addressing 100% of the teacher training curriculum standards set by Yoga Alliance, the world’s leading registry and accreditation source for yoga teachers and schools, Teaching Yoga is also ideal for use as a core textbook in yoga teacher training programs.
Drawing on a wide spectrum of perspectives, and featuring more than 150 photographs and illustrations, the book covers fundamental topics of yoga philosophy and history, including a historical presentation of classical yoga literature: the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutras of Pataljali, and the main historical sources on tantra and early hatha yoga. Each of the eleven major styles of contemporary yoga is described, with a brief history of its development and the distinguishing elements of its teachings. Exploring traditional and modern aspects of anatomy and physiology, the book provides extensive support and tools for teaching 108 yoga poses (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation. Teaching Yoga offers practical advice for classroom setup, planning and sequencing classes, as well as the process involved in becoming a teacher and sustaining oneself in the profession. The book has over 200 bibliographic sources, a comprehensive index, and a useful appendix that lists associations, institutes, organizations, and professional resources for yoga teachers.
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Review by mike for Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
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Okay, this is the best book out there for yoga teachers and teacher trainers, but what makes it truly amazing is that it’s a great book for all of us-for students as well as teachers. Although I’ve been doing yoga for 12 or 13 years, I’m not interested in teaching yoga, but this book is filled with background information and insights to help deepen my practice. One of the things I like most about it is how the author has approached every topic like a scholar, asking probing questions, giving detailed references, and encouraging the reader to think rather than just accept what some guru out there says is the truth. Yet the book is also filled with spirit, giving me a real feeling for doing yoga at a deeper level. Anyone who is serious about going deeper with his or her yoga practice will definitely want to buy this book. And last but not least, it’s a beautiful book!
Review by Ash for Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
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This is a perfect book for people who are new to yoga and are trying to understand and follow their teacher’s directions. Every pose is perfectly described, (There’s even a detailed section on body structure and movement). I love the foreword by Mariel Hemingway… it’s fun to read about her respect and admiration for the author (Mark Stephens). She writes, “He is a teacher’s teacher.” Beautiful book.
Review by John for Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
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This masterfully crafted and beautifully designed book is the most comprehensive text written on yoga wince B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Yoga was published in 1966. It’s also practical and resourceful, for beginning and experienced teachers. But unlike Iyengar, the Indian master, Mark Stephens writes as an American yogi steeped in Western culture yet completely absorbed in the wisdom of the East. This is also a work of scholarship, a rarity in a world of yoga long on bold assertions and short on evidence, careful reasoning, and even simple references. This books contains hundreds of insights into teaching and doing yoga. The author presents a well-balanced perspective on scores of topics, then encurages the reader to thnk on his or her own. This is a truly outstanding book on yoga that will become part of every yogi’s library.
Review by Kevin L. Dougherty for Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
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Admitedly, one may say that as a student of Mark Stephens, this is a biased review. I won’t argue with the fact that as a student of yoga, Mark Stephens in an excellent teacher who has very popular yoga classes here in Santa Cruz, CA. He is a very friendly, approachable teacher who treats all of his students (which are many) with equal attention and equanimity. His teaching style is easy to grasp and grow upon. My own yoga practice has improved markedly in my classes at Mark’s studio.
Despite all this, I own many yoga books and videos and have enough of them to understand the differences between those that are well-done, and those that aren’t. This book is definitely one of the former.
Although titled Teaching Yoga, this book has obviously been written for not just the teacher, but the student (which I am), too. As a student, I’m very interested in the teaching process, what the teacher is trying to convey to an aspiring student of yoga.
Mark’s book is a holistic production. Unlike many books, Teaching Yoga encompasses the whole gambit of what we in the West interpet as “Yoga”. Roots, traditions, lore, history, styles, philosophies, the physical practice, what to look out for, etc. is found in this obvious labor of love.
The chapter on sequencing ideas in itself is a gem and can easily be rendered into a book itself. For those who want a home-based practice without carbon-copying what was learned in class (I believe that the truely rich realm of yoga is that of self-exploration, the ability to translate a yoga practice to that of “being” yoga.), the underlying philosophy of sequencing gives ones a template to begin with.
Review by S. Schewe for Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
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This book is just great! It contains everything a new teacher needs, is really comprehensive and will be my most valuable tool I will use to prepare classes (sequencing, how to instruct poses in general & also specific poses), I am sure about that one! I can only recommend it to every young teacher.