| 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. |
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 One of the most useful yoga books for instructors |
| Review Date: July 27, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Theresa Reed, MILWAUKEE, WI USA |
As a yoga instructor, I am always looking for good books to enhance my teaching. There are many fine books on asanas, but very few on how to teach yoga. With the current growth in the yoga teaching market, books that are useful to instructors are starting to pop up.
"Yoga Posture Adjustments and Assisting" by Stephanie Pappas is a relevant book whether you are a new yoga instructor or a seasoned one. It is common in yoga classes to get an adjustment by an instructor - however, for a teacher, especially a new one, it can be challenging to know how to adjust properly. Many injuries happen in yoga due to overzealous or uncautious adjustments.
Pappas has written a book that is a clear and intelligent manual - I love that the focus is solely on adjustments. Big, easy to view photos demonstrating the proper way to adjust accompany every pose along with text that clearly spells out what you need to be doing as you adjust your student. Props are suggested when appropriate as well. I really liked the guidelines on what to say when adjusting - these verbal cues are really helpful as it is sometimes easy to become tongue tied in a class! Using these verbal instructions, I've felt I have been conveying the pose more clearly to my students. This book has certainly helped me to be a more confident instructor! At the back of the book, Pappas has delivered two chapters on questions that instructors ask as well as common questions from students. Her intelligent responses really gave me food for thought.
Some of the adjustments pictured were a bit too 'intimate' for my tastes. But that is simply my preference - not a criticism on the overall greatness of this book. There are some teachers and students that may be more comfortable with that much body contact. Also, even with this book, it is probably a wise idea to get hands on practice with a qualified senior instructor before you practice these adjustments on a student - especially if you have never adjusted someone. Again, not a criticism of the book, just a little common sense.
I think all teachers should consider adding this book to their library. I would also recommend "Cool Yoga Tricks" by Miriam Austin in addition to this book. |
A must for any yoga teacher
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| Review Date: October 6, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Patrick Gresham, Memphis, TN usa |
The key to this book is in the title"assist and adjust", not "correct".
This is the basis for the great response I have received from my students since receiving this book.
I have been teaching for four years, but I have been very cautious with hands-on adjustments, being a male with primarily female students.They have all expressed a noticeable difference, since I can make correct adjustments with confidence.
I use this book on a regular basis when planning class schedules. It has helped me to take my classes to the next level. |
Awesome! Easy to follow! A must read for all Yoga Teachers and Students!
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| Review Date: April 8, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Paula Yogi, New Jersey |
| A must read for any Yoga Teacher or Student! As a yoga teacher I find this book to be of great value due to its comprehensive style of writing, easy to execute adjustment/assisting techniques and clear, and precise illustrations. Not only is this book a resource for any yoga teacher but also for any yoga student. There are descriptions in the book that can lead a student into a more gratifying experience simply by applying some of the alignment cues, for instance, while standing in Mountain pose, Stephanie states "spread your toes", "firm the lower abs and bring your navel toward the spine", "drop your tailbone and let your shoulders relax." The author also provides suggestions on how to deepen the students experience and keep an eye out for misalignment by using props, blankets, straps and blocks. What I find extremely beneficial is the creative language and array of adjustment choices Stephanie provides for balancing and twist postures and forward folds. For example, the author uses the "standing squat" or "horse stance" when assisting a student in a standing posture such as half moon 2 or warrior 3 pose. I especially love the ever so clever "opening a jar" technique for twisting postures. Stephanie Pappas shows teachers how to apply your own body mechanics in a safe and informed way that feels good to the students. There are many more examples in the book, but those were a few of the many techniques I really enjoy doing on my students and my students enjoy receiving. |
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| Review Date: October 9, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Marinda Stopforth, chicago |
I have used this book for almost a year, and it has been a wonderful reference for planning classes, how to support my students and for my own studies - all the other yoga teachers I've shown it to, were very impressed with the quality of the publication.
Simple, effective adjustments - supporting and assisting the student to go deeper into a pose.
Excellent suggestions for verbal cues for each pose while at the same time addressing safety - for the student and the teacher.
A job well done!
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Honest, practical, invaluable advice
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| Review Date: May 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Michele Lawrence, Durango, CO United States |
| This book is truly one of a kind! It's a great tool on its own and when used in conjunction with Stephanie's assisting workshop it's an invaluable reference. Thanks so much for offering your honest, practical advice and imparting your unique style, approach and techniques to yoga instructors around the world! |
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