Foundational And Inspiring Books for A Budding Yoga Teacher
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Two years ago, I discover that I wanted to switch from just sweating it out in my hot yoga classes and trying to master half moon pose to actually sharing this practice with others. I wanted to be the kind of person that my yoga teachers were: calm, kind, grounded, and incredibly athletic. Certainly, doing a lot of yoga would push me to get in the right kind of shape. However, I also wanted to find the right headspace for becoming a yoga teacher, and for that I knew I needed more guidance. I found those with yoga teacher books.
I started with two yoga teacher books by Donna Farhi, Bringing Yoga to Life and Teaching Yoga. These two texts opened me up to how much yoga is about a method for living life and creating good decisions. It’s not just a way to work out and feel good. I learned that yoga teachers have a whole host of other concerns even as they seem totally serene. They are keeping an eye out for students who are pushing themselves too far, and they are handling the unnecessarily-chatty person who doesn’t respect the general silence of the yoga class. It made me see how much must be learned in the Yoga Teacher Training classes (YTT), which are usually hundreds of hours long.
If you too are thinking about yoga teaching, formally or just to share a practice, here are some more yoga teacher books that might help you take into account the complexity of teaching yoga, just like Farhi’s work did for me:
This text is a great option for those who want to understand what is physically happening to people in different yoga poses. Knowing these kinds of facts can be helpful as a yoga teacher for preventing re-injury or strain.
Restorative Yoga is specifically geared toward healing and relaxation, so learning from this practical guide can help you to impact those in your future yoga classes with truly helpful and wholesome postures. Don’t think push-yourself kind of yoga in this case: these postures are helping us to release tension we didn’t even know was there.
I started with two yoga teacher books by Donna Farhi, Bringing Yoga to Life and Teaching Yoga. These two texts opened me up to how much yoga is about a method for living life and creating good decisions. It’s not just a way to work out and feel good. I learned that yoga teachers have a whole host of other concerns even as they seem totally serene. They are keeping an eye out for students who are pushing themselves too far, and they are handling the unnecessarily-chatty person who doesn’t respect the general silence of the yoga class. It made me see how much must be learned in the Yoga Teacher Training classes (YTT), which are usually hundreds of hours long.
If you too are thinking about yoga teaching, formally or just to share a practice, here are some more yoga teacher books that might help you take into account the complexity of teaching yoga, just like Farhi’s work did for me:
