Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses: A Practical Workbook for Integrating Themes, Ideas, and Inspiration into Your Class

Super book, really helpful with construction sequence building. Wish I had known about this book during Teacher Training Yoga.

This book is a must have for yoga teachers. I’m really pleased I ordered it as a present to myself. Inspirational!

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.

I like this book it is very accessible -and is a nice tool to help with improving class sequencing and theming.

An inspiring, easy to read, must have for new and experienced teachers. Perfect for class planning, and reminding oneself that we can do this! I would highly recommend.

Fantastic book for yoga teachers. Sometimes I can sit for hours trying to write my classes. This book is so inspirational full of ideas. I've recommended it to all my yoga teacher friends This belongs on everyone's bookshelf!

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.

Arrived promptly, brand new book. It is very helpful lots of good ideas. Will be a book that I use a lot

Excellent book! Plein d’idées inspirantes. Complet. Je l’utilise régulièrement pour la préparation de mes classes. Le seul regret que j’ai c’est de ne pas l’avoir acheté avant!

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.