Why We Recommend This Book
This is an impressive addition to modern yoga literature. Most books about yoga continue to be written for students, thereby offering only a small part of the story that helps teachers hone their craft. Specific support for teaching is lacking in most sources, but Melanie Cooper addresses this need head-on and she does it very well. In fact, her book is twice as good as most because she provides not only great support on many aspects of teaching, she also features wonderful asana adjustment teaching. That’s a lot packed into an organized, accessible teaching manual. Highly recommended! – Shelly
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This book is for teachers of all kinds of yoga. It is a source of sadness to me that some yoga teachers look more for the divisions between types of yoga rather than what we have in common. I feel we are all doing essentially the same thing but with different emphases to cater to all the different personalities and body types doing asana.
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Why We Recommend This Book
This spiral bound reference book offers a lot of value. Developing skills and confidence in alignment and sequencing are often the biggest challenges in the first few years of teaching. While some trainers and workshops provide excellent teaching support on these vital topics, becoming an expert in these areas requires ongoing commitment to practice and study. After the training workshop is over, you need a guide or reference to refer back to, but compared to other teaching topics, practical written support on these topics is slim. So this guide really stands out as a quality support piece for teachers. It covers the fundamentals of alignment and explains the relationship between physical alignment and energy flow. And it includes sequencing guidance plus sample sequences for each type (hip stretching, grounding, calming, invigorating, etc.) – Shelly
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The cycles of nature and the seasons are a perfect metaphor for sequence building. We start quiet and still in a seated posture at the beginning of our practice, just as Winter is poised for Spring. The gradual warm awakening of Spring transitions into the bight, full exuberance of Summer. The power of Summer peaks, then moves toward the descending energy of Autumn. Autumn folds inward, finally releasing back to Winter and its silence. When designing your own sequencing, keep the rhythm of the seasons in mind.
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