Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2: 54 New Themes, Templates, and Ideas for Integrating Inspiration Into Your Class

Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2: 54 New Themes, Templates, and Ideas for Integrating Inspiration Into Your Class | Sage Rountree, Alexandra DeSiato

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I haven't read the first volume so I wasn't familiar with the layout or content of this series. I was interested in the theme ideas and how a yoga class could be structured.

I found this very alien and inauthentic. Several of the things suggested I felt were outside a yoga teacher's remit.

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PuddleJumper This may be cultural because I've not come across any yoga classes where the things suggested would be appropriate. If a teacher started reading poetry or song lyrics in a class or gave me wool at the beginning of the class, I would walk out.

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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Yikes. I‘d probably sprain something trying to turn on my heel so fast. 😅🤣 I love yoga, but that extra woo-woo stuff right there isn‘t my style. 🙂‍↔️ 14h

PuddleJumper @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I don't know the history of yoga so I'm always a bit unsure about Western Yoga. Is it just exercise or is it spiritual? But, I find the classes that do go into the spiritual stuff do it in a real pseudo science, pop psychology, cringe way. This would make me so uncomfortable in a class. 14h

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KathyWheeler I enjoy doing yoga, but this would not be what I‘m looking for in a class. 14h

PuddleJumper @KathyWheeler I think it must be aimed at a niche group of yoga teachers? I've never experienced anything like it in classes before 14h

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I know for some people it is a spiritual thing, but typically in a class here in the US, this sort of thing wouldn‘t fly. I feel like over here it‘s seen as more of an exercise and any spiritual stuff is typically focused inward, so you wouldn‘t necessarily want to “connect” with everyone around you constantly. I know there are some local New Age shops that have yoga classes and they might be more like this, but I‘ve never gone. 😅 14h

ImperfectCJ I attended yoga classes in the San Francisco Bay Area that had things like this, and I suspect there might be areas of the Pacific Northwest where this would fly, but yes, most yoga classes I've been to elsewhere would not be amenable to this kind of thing. People seem to want their workout and then want to go home. 13h

PuddleJumper @ImperfectCJ That's interesting. A review of the first book mentioned it was very 'America Yoga' so maybe that's what they meant. I'm in the UK and I just don't think that style would work here 13h

Faranae Sounds very White TM Yoga, where they know yoga is a spiritual/religious practice, but have no connection to that set of religions, so they invent one of their own. Detached from spirituality, it's just stretching exercises. If the spiritual focus is purely inward and not accompanied by anything other than asanas and a little bit of meditation, then it's still not got much to do with the original yoga. 11h

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