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Many yoga teachers feel overwhelmed when it comes to grappling with the marketing and entrepreneurial aspects of their yoga business. With the market for yoga teachers becoming increasingly saturated, it is crucial that yoga teachers understand what makes their offering unique to implement a focussed business strategy.

This part-guide, part workbook helps yoga teachers bridge the gap between the spiritual essence of being a yoga teacher and the financial viability of their business and is based on the authors' two decades worth of experience. Covering everything from the nuts and bolts of starting out as a yoga teacher, to navigating social media there is something for everyone, whether you're just starting out on your journey, or trying to propel your career to the next level.

This book is part of the series 'Yoga Teaching Guides', which provides expert information on essential topics as well as ideas for creative teaching.

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Menstrual cycle awareness is crucially important when trying to understand the needs of your yoga students and this guide will give you the knowledge you need to confidently address the menstrual cycle when teaching students in group and one-on-one settings via the principles of both western and Ayurvedic approaches. This book addresses the importance of the menstrual cycle and how Ayurvedic principles can best be applied to understand the anatomical, physiological and hormonal changes that take place during different stages and weeks throughout the menstrual cycle.

Anja Brierley Lange highlights the purpose and importance of each phase of the menstrual cycle and how yoga teaching can and should be tailored accordingly to your students' menstrual needs.

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Considering yoga philosophy, mythology, poses, and nature, Theming Skills for Yoga Teachers provides guidance in how to skilfully theme yoga classes with greater depth and give students meaningful ways to integrate yoga into their lives beyond the mat.

The book encourages autonomy of interpretation whilst also providing questions and exercises at the end of each chapter to help inspire ideas and form a synergy of practical application and creativity.

Essential for both yoga teachers and trainees, this book allows them to create more meaningful yoga sessions and hone their teaching ability to provide a more memorable and holistic learning experience.

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Teaching yoga online can help you to grow your business, help more students, while also allowing you to work more flexibly to suit your lifestyle. However, whether you want to move fully online, or even blend in-person teaching with an added digital offering, it can be daunting trying to incorporate a style of teaching that you've otherwise never had to engage with.

This book is for you if...

· You've been sticking your head in the sand, reluctant to start online teaching.

· You've been struggling to adapt to online teaching and would like to streamline your business with the right tools and software.

· You've stopped teaching and need to get started again.

· You lack confidence and feel overwhelmed trying to figure teaching online out.

· You would like to access a larger student base.

This down to earth guide will offer you advice and reassurance on all of the above in succinct, straightforward, and mindful chapters. It speaks candidly on goal setting, planning, fruitful mindsets, equipment and much more, allowing you to develop a thriving online yoga business whilst embracing the accessibility benefits that come with this form of teaching. The book is supported by worksheets to aid with planning and video tutorials to help you get to grips with equipment and software.

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Drawing on the philosophy and history of the body positivity movement, Donna Noble presents a radical re-examination of teaching inclusive yoga classes by breaking down stereotypes and demystifying yoga.

By sharing accessible tools for everything from marketing a body-positive class to setting the scene in the space, using appropriate language and considering consent and touch, Noble demonstrates why every body is a yoga body - no matter what shape or size.

With guidance on modifying poses for larger bodies, as well as chair-based sequences, this resource helps yoga teachers to ensure that the benefits of yoga are available to everyone. With practical tips, as well as information on social justice and body-positive yoga off the mat, Body Positive Yoga is a well-rounded resource that gives yoga teachers the confidence to host inclusive and welcoming classes for all.

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Find freedom in your yoga practice with this empowering guide from beloved yoga teacher and social justice activist Dianne Bondy and Yoga International editor-in-chief Kat Heagberg.

Yoga Where You Are welcomes readers of all backgrounds, body sizes, and abilities into the practice of yoga. Dianne Bondy and Kat Heagberg offer everything you need to know to build a custom yoga practice that supports you exactly where you are - now and at every stage of your life's journey.

Yoga Where You Are discusses how yoga intersects with body image, introduces essential information on elements like breathwork and meditation, and celebrates yoga's diverse roots through an introductory chapter on its origins and history. Whether you're a beginner, a seasoned practitioner, or a yoga teacher, the step-by-step instructions for hundreds of customisable pose variations provide an essential resource you can turn to as your practice evolves. Bondy and Heagberg also present tips to find inspiration and creativity on the mat.

With truly inclusive language, alignment options for real bodies, and photos of a range of practitioners, the book provides you with everything you need to customise and deepen your practice with clarity and confidence.

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In this full-color illustrated guide, David Keil brings the anatomy of the body in yoga asanas to life. Writing in an accessible, conversational tone, he outlines how practitioners and yoga teachers alike can utilize a deeper understanding of their anatomy and its movement and function to deepen their yoga practice, increase confidence, prevent injury, and better understand their students and their challenges.

Providing detailed images and photos overlaid with anatomical diagrams, allowing you to see clearly what is happening within each asana discussed, Keil shows how the muscles, joints, tendons, and structure of the body work together to support integrated movement. He discusses the basics of functional anatomy, exploring the workings of the foot and ankle, the knee, the hip joint, the pelvis and SI joint, the spine, the shoulder, and the hand, wrist, and elbow. He examines anatomical patterns and body mechanics in specific asanas, such as forward bends, twists, external hip rotations, arm balances, and back bends, such as, for example, how a wide-legged forward bend shifts the position of the femur and the pelvis, allowing students with tight hamstrings to accomplish a deep forward bend--something they struggle with when the legs are together. Keil also shows how various yoga postures interrelate from the perspective of functional anatomy.

Revealing in detail how everything in the body is connected and how your anatomy functions holistically during yoga practice, this book helps you to understand the body better and connect and integrate yoga postures in a completely new way.

Second Edition.

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As the preface states, 'This is a dictionary of terms you may come across on your yoga journey ...it is comprehensive enough to help you in your search for inner peace through yoga.... Sanskrit is the only language that does not take its name from the people who spoke it. The very word Sanskrit implies something put together perfectly, refined and cultured, and the written form is called ... 'the writing of the gods'.

This comprehensive dictionary of terms used in yoga asanas and in yoga philosophy generally, along with some accompanying Hindu and Buddhist words and reference illustrations of asanas, chakra symbols, and yoga physiology, contains almost every posture known. English terms and posture names are also explained.

A valuable resource for yoga teachers and students alike, this is also an encyclopaedic dictionary giving names and dates of key teachers and yoga authorities.

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The Yogaru 108 Asana Yoga Cards are designed as an easy to follow sequencing guide for all levels of experience, to make your practice more accessible at home, travelling or when building a class.

Each card has alignment cues, levels guide, a unique coding system based on yoga anatomy, and Sanskrit/English asana names. The cards also come with sample sequences and an extensive list of asana benefits to help you tailor to your needs.

Designed and illustrated by a certified yoga teacher, the cards are divided into Asana families, starting with Warm up and ending with Restorative. There are two different ways to build your sequence – simply pick a selection of asana using the Levels guide to suit your level of experience or pick a Peak pose you would like to work towards and use the anatomy coding system to build your sequence. 

Each card has a level guide to help you pick suitable poses for your level of experience. If you are a beginner, pick a range of Level 1 cards; if you are intermediate, introduce Level 2 cards; and if you have an advanced practice, include Level 3 cards. Pick a range of different poses – starting with Warm up and finishing with Restorative. For every 30 minutes of practice, include 5 minutes of Savasana.

The cards also have a collection of anatomy codes to help you understand which muscles of the body are being stretched and/or strengthened. When sequencing, start by identifying a ‘peak pose’ you would like to explore. Then pick a selection of poses from a variety of families that work one or more of the muscle groups from your chosen pose. Working from simple poses to more challenging ones, a well-balanced practice will include all of the families – starting with Warm up and finishing with Restorative.

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Now in its second edition, Instructing Hatha Yoga is a comprehensive guide to developing the knowledge and qualities of a confident and truly qualified yoga instructor.

The updated edition includes revised poses complete with instructions, a web resource, and sample children's and prenatal classes.

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The third handbook of this collection includes 30 basic simple visualisations, which have been tried & tested on yoga students.

Thirty Paths is dedicated to all those who are continually seeking that still small voice within, that which is.

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Price: 10.99

Teaching Yoga explores in depth and with compassion the whole area of ethics & the teacher-student relationship. Drawing on decades of experience training yoga teachers and co-writing the California Yoga Teachers Association (CYTA) code of ethics, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for teaching yoga.

Covering a variety of topics both practical and philosophical, this work explores how to create healthy boundaries; the student-teacher relationship (including whether a sexual relationship is acceptable); how to create physical and emotional safety for the student; what is a reasonable class size; how much a class should cost; and how to conduct the business of teaching while upholding the integrity of yoga as a philosophy, a science, and an art.

A bonus CD features the author speaking about yoga ethics.

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A practical guide for yoga teachers and trainees. This trusted companion offers help and guidance on the day-to-day practicalities of teaching and running a yoga business. Including insights from renowned yoga professionals, including Liz Lark, Lizzie Lasater, Andrew McGonigle, Katy Appleton and Tarik Dervish and more, this book offers practical ways to hone teaching skills.

It features topics such as working with common injuries and conditions, breath, sequencing, incorporating philosophy and myth into class, and the links between yoga and Qigong and Ayurveda. It also provides key information on how to get the most out of a yoga business, with advice on setting up and running a studio, and planning and leading retreats.

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Your Spine, Your Yoga is arguably the first book that looks at the spine from both the Western anatomical/biomechanical point of view and the modern yoga perspective. It is filled with detail, discussion, illustrations, and practical advice for spines of all types.

This emphasis on variety is welcome and necessary: no two spines are exactly alike, and no two people have the same biology and biography. What your spine is able to do may be vastly different from what other yoga students’ or teachers’ spines can do.

Your Spine, Your Yoga focuses on the axial body, the core, from the sacral complex, which includes the pelvis, sacrum, and sacroiliac joint, through the lumbar and thoracic segments of the spine, to the cervical complex, which includes the neck and head. The structural components of each segment are examined: from the bones, to the joints, ligaments, fascia, tendons, muscles, and even the neurological and blood systems.

The range and implications of human variations are presented, as well as the ways these variations may affect individual yoga practices. The sources of restrictions to movement are investigated through answering the question “What Stops Me?” The answers presented run through a spectrum, beginning with various types of tensile resistance to three kinds of compressive resistance.

Whether the reader is a novice to yoga, anatomy, or both, or a seasoned practitioner with an in-depth knowledge in these fields, this book will be valuable. For the novice, there are easily understood illustrations and photographs, as well as sidebars highlighting the most important topics. For the anatomy geek, other sidebars focus on the complexity of the topic, with hundreds of references provided for further investigation. For the yoga teacher, sidebars suggest how to bring this knowledge into the classroom.

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Patanjali's Yoga Sutras is the key text of yoga. Yet for many contemporary practitioners, its deeper treasures remain either unknown or mired in obscurity.

Ranju Roy and David Charlton focus on 18 of the most important sutras and show how each one illuminates the relationship between the body, the breath and the mind in a practical, clear and contemporary manner. The sutras are carefully deconstructed, put into context and then developed into ideas for practice. They examine the interplay of three key terms: support, direction and space. They suggest that only by taking support on something can you establish a clear direction; and only then can a space open up to grow into. This formula can be applied as successfully to the body (in asana) as to the breath (in pranayama) and the mind (through meditation).

With illustrated asana sequences and suggested practices, Embodying the Yoga Sutra is both a practical as well as a deeply philosophical book. Roy and Charlton give readers a whole new vocabulary with which to understand yoga as a living, vibrant and dynamic tradition.

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In 30 Essential Yoga Poses, Judith Lasater draws on her wealth of yoga practice and teaching experience, as well as her training as a physical therapist, to present this comprehensive guide for beginning students and their teachers.

In Part One, "Beginning with an Ancient Tradition," she discusses yoga's ancient eightfold path and its relevance in today's world. In Part Two, "Being a Student, Being a Teacher," she goes to the heart of yoga, that is, the all-important student-teacher relationship. Students will find this part helpful in selecting an appropriate teacher.

Her discussion about creating clear boundaries is invaluable support for teachers who wish to establish, as she advocates, "a restorative environment" for their students.

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Create yoga class themes with yoga philosophy, inspirational quotes, and simple concepts that inspire and motivate students.

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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Price: 25.00

A full-colour practice deck of the Ashtanga Primary Series by the dynamic yoga teacher Kino MacGregor.

Ashtanga Yoga is one of the most popular and rigorous styles of yoga - and now practising the Primary Series at home could not be easier. This full-colour set of practice cards includes 90 poses (the series plus each pose in Surya Namaskara A and B), each with a photo, instructions, the drishti (point of focus), and a list of benefits.

A fold-out introduction card explains Ashtanga's history and tradition; the essential connection of breath, posture, and gaze that is the core of the practice; and how Ashtanga is fundamentally a path of spiritual transformation and development.

Whether you're new to Ashtanga or an experienced practitioner, this card set will be a useful and inspiring support to your practice.

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Writing for both yoga teachers and students of yoga, Siva Mohan explains the principles of Ayurveda and how it can be used as the framework from which to learn how to live a yogic life.

As she says in her first chapter, 'One of my gifts is to show you how to fit Ayurveda into the container of your modern urban life. And then, use it to change the container entirely.'

This book teaches the basics in an accessible way, while always including the psychospiritual component. Siva offers guidance on how to apply the teachings of Ayurveda in a variety of settings and how to incorporate them into an integrative approach to health.

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The benefits of yoga are valuable to people of all ages and all fitness levels.

As a yoga teacher, you have a responsibility to keep your classes fresh and challenging to help students discover their potential. Motivational Yoga simplifies that task with 100 easy-to-follow lesson plans that vary in length. The lessons progress from basic yoga asana and pranayama lessons for beginners to more advanced material such as mindfulness and meditation.

Fully customisable to meet individual student needs, these ready-to-use lessons will save you valuable preparation time. Choose from beginner lessons focusing on body and breath awareness, basic postures, and breathing, or select more advanced instruction on the yamas and niyamas, guided relaxation, the heart centre, the chakras, emotions, and mindfulness. You’ll also find lessons for kids, older adults, athletes, and pregnant women to ensure you are equipped to serve all students.

Most of the lesson plans offer a written script for use in class. For beginner teachers, these scripts provide a helpful structure and set the stage for mindful yoga instruction. More experienced teachers may use these lessons and scripts as a creative departure point for expanding on one of the eight limbs of raja yoga or designing a tailored focus for the day’s practice.

Motivational Yoga is a starting point for bringing yoga’s abundant teachings into the daily lives of teachers and students alike. For ease of planning and organisation, each lesson follows a five-part outline: The intention provides the focus for the day's yoga class. The lesson (script) embodies the essence of the day's teaching. The Asanas for Deepening section illustrates the lesson through body stretch, movement, and sensation. The Motivation Off the Mat section presents suggestions, homework assignments, and reminders for practising the yoga teachings outside the class. Teacher Tips and Wise Words offer advice for fine-tuning sequences and proverbs that convey a specific thought or feeling for the lesson.

In addition, five full-length workshop lesson plans help you expand your teaching beyond a traditional class to offer focused workshops to your students on these popular topics: Spring Cleaning Yoga Detox, The Joy of Backbends, Yoga for Absolute Beginners, Introduction to Meditation, and Transformational Breath. With each lesson, Motivational Yoga demonstrates how the strength, balance, and stretching of the physical practice can inspire a healthy, complete, and joyous existence on and off the mat.

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Written for a broad yoga market that includes teachers, teacher trainers, studio owners, and students, Yoga Sequencing presents 67 sequences of poses designed for a range of yoga student experience and offers a comprehensive resource for designing and refining yoga classes.

Drawing on ancient yoga philosophy and contemporary teaching methods, Yoga Sequencing: Designing Transformative Yoga Classes presents detailed instructions and photos for 67 sequences of yoga poses that include multiple sequences for students at all levels, children and teens, women across the life cycle, seniors, people with depression and anxiety, and poses for each of the major chakras and ayurvedic constitutions.

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Price: 14.99

Yoga Sequences is a compilation of Vani Devi's previous three yoga books, with additional sequences. Drawing on the author's decades of experience teaching yoga to students of all levels of skill (including prisoners, children, and adults with special needs), these sequences are practical, easy-to-follow and will provide inspiration for every student and teacher.

Beautifully illustrated with the author's hand-drawn images of her students as well as images from the natural world, this is a uniquely imaginative yet substantial yoga book, and a valuable addition to any yoga library.

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Yoga Biomechanics: Stretching Redefined gives teachers a grounding in biomechanics so that they can easily and safely use yoga and/or stretching with their students. Most yoga teacher schools provide only limited training in anatomy and biomechanics, and the study of the effect of mechanical forces on structure and function is often overlooked or misunderstood.

Aesthetic cues (instructing students where to place their hands and feet in yoga asana) may not be biomechanically appropriate for everyone. Readers will learn to fit the pose to the student, rather than making the student fit the pose.

In this book Jules Mitchell: 

• Educates yoga teachers to think beyond common scripted yoga education 
• Supports teachers to understand biomechanics, rather than simply memorizing anatomy, empowering them to make smart choices for instructing a variety of populations in both private and group class settings 
• Provides insight into critical interpretation of research findings helping the reader to avoid clinical assumptions
• Encourages variety in popular modern day asana, using yoga props and a keen eye, based on the understanding of how tissues adapt to applied loads.

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Price: 6.99

This is the 4th handbook written by Susan Johnson. It gives 30 basic simple visualisations, which have been tried and tested on her students.

This handbook is intended for yoga teachers, trainees and anyone working in the field promoting relaxation.