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| |  | Keyword Search: Henryk Gorecki | Home » Yoga Posture Adjustments and Assisting: An Insightful Guide for Yoga Teachers and Students | | | | | | | Description: | | This is the first comprehensive guide for yoga teachers and yoga students providing all the details on how to adjust or assist someone while they are performing a yoga posture. With yoga's recent worldwide popularity, this book is invaluable to millions who teach or practice yoga. The book goes beyond just the physical aspects of yoga - it deals honestly with some touchy matters that affect yoga teachers and students alike. The book's clear instructions and generous supply of photos make it easy for yoga teachers to learn how to adjust or assist their students. Yoga students can use this book to enhance their personal practice by working with a partner. Yoga Posture Adjustments and Assisting: An Insightful Guide for Yoga Teachers and Students demonstrates and explains adjusting techniques for over 65 postures and contains over 200 photos. You can learn: • How to adjust or assist someone who is performing a yoga posture
• How to perform the yoga adjustments using effective body mechanics and leverage
• Multiple variations for adjusting a posture
• How to use yoga props
• Verbal cues to help your yoga student or partner
• Ways to accommodate different body types
• How to safely take your students deeper into the yoga postures The book also features a thought provoking section on how to navigate the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of being a yoga teacher or yoga student. It candidly discusses topics such as: • Dealing with difficult emotions before, during, or after class
• Coping with thoughts that can surface during yoga class or home practice
• Managing expectations and judgments about ourselves, our teachers, and our students
• Dealing with unusual situations in the classroom
• Handling competitiveness, jealousy, nervousness The international yoga community will greatly benefit from this book. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Stephanie Pappas | | Paperback:
| 260 pages | | Publisher:
| Trafford Publishing | | Publication Date:
| January 17, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1412051622 | | Product Length:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.54 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 42 reviews |
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 A must for all Yoga teachers!Jul 07, 2010
As a yoga teacher, this is a great book to have in your collection. The pictures are clear and the instructions are easy to follow. I find that it's very important to assist my students with hands-on adjustments and there are not many books out there that illustrate the assists the way Stephanie's book does. Of course some adjustments can be dangerous, but only if the teacher is rough and doesn't listen to the student's body. The adjustments that are given in this book are safe and effective as long as they are conducted properly. I highly reccomend this book!
insightfulMay 12, 2010
i bought the book with the intention of taking a workshop. i have dozens of yoga books (as most teachers do) i really love this book, well written (extremely easy to understand the dynamics of the assistance in the postures) i eventually did do the workshop, and i am even more of a fan! Stephanie is so very enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge, you come away with the understanding she is extremely knowledgeable, warm, and that she wants you to be comfortable in finding ways to touch your students in adjustments that verbal ques just can't express. i feel Yoga Posture Adjustments and Assisting: An Insightful Guide for Yoga Teachers and Students, is as easy to understand as the title states. a clear no nonsense guide you will refer to often.
Love this book!Feb 27, 2010
As a new Yoga teacher, I am so grateful for this book. It has helped me continue my education and deepen my understanding about adjusting and assisting students. It is full of excellent advise and alignment cuing. The photographs and descriptions make everything crystal clear. This author seems to be able to anticipate all questions and information that teachers and students alike have been wanting to ask. This book is a must have for anyone building a Yoga library. I have learned so much about adjusting and assisting from this book, more than in my teacher training.
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 Not worth the moneyOct 20, 2009
There are so many good books on yoga postures and alignment - but this is not one of them. The adjustments are way too dramatic and could do more harm than good. Advice for more gentle adjustments is not given nor is advice about getting into and out of the pose. Definitely not worth it!!!!!!!!!
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A dangerous bookOct 18, 2009
This is not yoga and is definitely a dangerous book. Yoga is about respecting the limitations of the body and not succumbing to the egoistic concept of perfecting a pose. The difference between yoga asana and exercise is AWARENESS. This awareness is cultivated from within and not from someone pulling or pushing you into a pose. I know that many teachers are out there doing these sorts of adjustments and that students may request them, but this is not classical yoga and may account for the alarming increase in the rate of yoga practitioners being injured.
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