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Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2: 54 New Themes, Templates, and Ideas for Integrating Inspiration Into Your Class
Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2: 54 New Themes, Templates, and Ideas for Integrating Inspiration Into Your Class | Sage Rountree, Alexandra DeSiato
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Volume 2 of the bestselling guide for yoga teachers--design fresh, confident, and dynamic classes your students will love 54 inspired new themes: a full year of templates to engage, retain, and connect with your students This companion volume--with all-new material--offers 54 ready-made ideas and templates to elevate your classes, refine your voice, and teach inspired themes with joy and confidence. Each chapter--like Rise to Joy, Less is More, and Rebel, Yogi!--introduces a series of updated themes. Authors Sage Rountree and Alexandra DeSiato offer practical upgrades to the bestselling first volume of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, with new prompts, expanded notes, and thoughtful cues to help you connect with students and center their experiences in class. Each template offers useful guidance on: Expounding on your theme and connecting it to both personal and universal experiencesChants, quotes, mantras, poems, or songsSpecific practices that work with your themeDistilling your theme to a short sentence or intention for your classTakeaway ideas and helpful notesAny of the 54 class themes can be used as-is or molded to embody your own personal teaching style and authentic voice. Each includes insightful options for opening your class, suggestions for what to say during movements and pauses, and helpful ideas for closing out strong. Grounded in the knowledge that yoga philosophy is applicable to our daily lives--and its wisdom is for all of us--this book offers adaptable and easy-to-use ways to transform your classes, empower your students, and build richer, more meaningful connections by teaching beyond the poses and into the world.
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Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2: 54 New Themes, Templates, and Ideas for Integrating Inspiration Into Your Class | Sage Rountree, Alexandra DeSiato
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I haven't read the first volume so I wasn't familiar with the layout or content of this series. I was interested in the theme ideas and how a yoga class could be structured.

I found this very alien and inauthentic. Several of the things suggested I felt were outside a yoga teacher's remit.

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PuddleJumper This may be cultural because I've not come across any yoga classes where the things suggested would be appropriate. If a teacher started reading poetry or song lyrics in a class or gave me wool at the beginning of the class, I would walk out.

Thanks to #Netgalley for the #ARC 2w
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Yikes. I‘d probably sprain something trying to turn on my heel so fast. 😅🤣 I love yoga, but that extra woo-woo stuff right there isn‘t my style. 🙂‍↔️ 2w
PuddleJumper @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I don't know the history of yoga so I'm always a bit unsure about Western Yoga. Is it just exercise or is it spiritual? But, I find the classes that do go into the spiritual stuff do it in a real pseudo science, pop psychology, cringe way. This would make me so uncomfortable in a class. 2w
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KathyWheeler I enjoy doing yoga, but this would not be what I‘m looking for in a class. 2w
PuddleJumper @KathyWheeler I think it must be aimed at a niche group of yoga teachers? I've never experienced anything like it in classes before 2w
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I know for some people it is a spiritual thing, but typically in a class here in the US, this sort of thing wouldn‘t fly. I feel like over here it‘s seen as more of an exercise and any spiritual stuff is typically focused inward, so you wouldn‘t necessarily want to “connect” with everyone around you constantly. I know there are some local New Age shops that have yoga classes and they might be more like this, but I‘ve never gone. 😅 2w
ImperfectCJ I attended yoga classes in the San Francisco Bay Area that had things like this, and I suspect there might be areas of the Pacific Northwest where this would fly, but yes, most yoga classes I've been to elsewhere would not be amenable to this kind of thing. People seem to want their workout and then want to go home. 2w
PuddleJumper @ImperfectCJ That's interesting. A review of the first book mentioned it was very 'America Yoga' so maybe that's what they meant. I'm in the UK and I just don't think that style would work here 2w
Faranae Sounds very White TM Yoga, where they know yoga is a spiritual/religious practice, but have no connection to that set of religions, so they invent one of their own. Detached from spirituality, it's just stretching exercises. If the spiritual focus is purely inward and not accompanied by anything other than asanas and a little bit of meditation, then it's still not got much to do with the original yoga. 2w
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