Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses

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

Experienced yoga instructors Sage Rountree and Alexandra DeSiato give yoga teachers the tools to find their voice and tap into innate wisdom. The authors offer ready-made, detailed themes to use in classes and provide flexible templates for building a toolkit of themes for future use. Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses offers guidance for both new and experienced teachers starting with a section on voice, authenticity, emulation, phrasing, practice, repetition, and finding inspiration. It continues with a second section that contains fifty-four complete themes that instructors can easily use in their own classes. The final section includes blank templates for instructors to create their own class themes and notes. With a unique angle and practical feel, this workbook will appeal to yoga teachers, teacher trainers, and at-home practitioners who want to move to the next level.

About the Author

Sage Rountree, Ph.D., is a teacher trainer at the highest level (E-RYT 500) and director of the yoga-teacher trainings at the Carolina Yoga Company, which she co-owns. The author of numerous health-centric books, her writing has appeared in Runner's World, Yoga Journal, ESPN, Vogue, Men's Fitness, USA Today, and the Chicago Tribune. She presents internationally on yoga and athletics at venues including the U.S. Olympic Training Center and the Pentagon.

Alexandra Desiato, MA, holds the highest accreditation of yoga teaching (E-RYT 500) and is the co-author of Lifelong Yoga. An expert in yoga for healthy aging and yoga for prenatal and postnatal women, she presents and assists in yoga workshops locally and nationally, including Yogaville and Kripalu. With a master's degree in English literature from Appalachian State University, she has taught writing and literature at the college level for over fifteen years.

Angie Kane is a theatre artist and audiobook narrator based in Southeast Michigan. She is a proud member of the Actors' Equity Association and a Resident Artist of The Purple Rose Theatre Company.