| Yoga Teaching Handbook: A Practical Guide for Yoga Teachers and Trainees Contributor(s): O'Neill, Sian (Editor), Lasater, Lizzie (Contribution by), McGonigle, Andrew (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1848193556 ISBN-13: 9781848193550 Publisher: Singing Dragon OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Yoga |
| Dewey: 613.704 |
| LCCN: 2017022816 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Health & Fitness |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This trusted companion offers help and guidance on the day-to-day practicalities of teaching and running a yoga business. Including insights from renowned yoga professionals, including Liz Lark, Lizzie Lasater, Andrew McGonigle, Katy Appleton and Tarik Dervish and more, this book offers practical ways to hone teaching skills. It features topics such as working with common injuries and conditions, breath, sequencing, incorporating philosophy and myth into class, and the links between yoga and Qigong and Ayurveda. It also provides key information on how to get the most out of a yoga business, with advice on setting up and running a studio, and planning and leading retreats. |
Contributor Bio(s): McGonigle, Andrew: - After originally training to become a doctor, Andrew McGonigle moved away from western medicine to pursue a career as a yoga teacher, massage therapist and anatomy teacher. Based in both London and Los Angeles, Andrew has been practising yoga and meditation for 15 years and teaching strong, grounding, alignment-based yoga since 2009. Andrew combines all of his skills to teach anatomy and physiology on yoga teacher training courses across the world. He contributes monthly to Om Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine with his 360° Yoga anatomy feature and has released a series of anatomy applied to yoga apps. His teachers include Hamish Henry, Paul Dallaghan, Eileen Gauthier, Kristin Campbell, Anna Ash-by and Sally Kempton. For more information please visit: www.doctoryogi.co.ukO'Neill, Sian: - Believing in the transformational power of yoga, Sian has been practising yoga for around 14 years. She completed the British Wheel of Yoga accredited teacher training diploma at Yogacampus and also also the BWY Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy module with Tarik Dervish and the Scaravelli Immersion course with Catherine Annis. She attends regular workshops and has been fortunate to learn from eminent practitioners including the wise and experienced tutors at Yogacampus and from intensives/workshops with leading practitioners from around the world. Sian teaches a flowing hatha yoga class incorporating alignment, a mindful flow and breath awareness, aiming to help students on their own path of yoga. Further details can be found at www.yogawithsian.co.uk.Lasater, Lizzie: - Raised in San Francisco and trained as a designer, Lizzie Lasater M.Arch, RYT, teaches restorative yoga internationally and online. She sometimes jokes that yoga "runs in the family" because her Mom, Judith Hanson Lasater, co-founded Yoga Journal Magazine and has been teaching since 1971. Lizzie posts daily on Instagram about the pleasure of deceleration. She lives in the Alps with her Austrian husband.Lark, Liz: - Liz Lark is an experienced yoga teacher, author, artist and retreat leader. Her yoga clients have included high-profile actors, dancers and the Monteverdi Choir led by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She has authored eight books, including one for children, and has made a DVD entitled, Yogalibre: A Creative Practice of Hatha Yoga (2008). She is also a Board member for www.yogacampus.com, a London-based teacher training course.Mickwitz, Tanja: - Known for her authentic voice and speaking from the heart Tanja weaves yogic principles and life understanding into a journey of creative flow and intelligently progressed asana. Her Soulful Vinyasa classes serve as an inspiration and support for life, with āsana as the playground and metaphor. Tanja creates a nurturing space for exploration of the internal landscape and inner growth whilst challenging the physical edge with a safely led dynamic practice. Tanja is also an engaging storyteller and teaches regular Mythical Flow classes where she weaves in the Indian deities, their stories and symbolism into the practice. Tanja is based in London where she is one of the senior teachers at The Life Centre in addition to being a teacher and mentor for Yogacampus Teacher Training. She is registered SYT (Senior Yoga Teacher) with Yoga Alliance UK and E-RYT 200 & RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance US.Kuo-Deemer, Mimi: - Mimi has been a student of yoga since 1995 and an avid lover of dance since 1978, when her moth-er put her in ballet school for walking with turned-in toes. Her two main teachers in the yoga world are Erich Schiffmann and Donna Farhi. Her qigong practice, inspired by her own curiosity and love for Daoism and the Chinese Five Elements, emerged as a complementary and distinct practice alongside her love of yoga and meditation. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Mimi spent 13 years living in China, where she co-founded and co-directed Yoga Yard, Beijing's first and leading yoga centre. She now lives in London, where she is a senior teacher and teacher training faculty member at Triyoga. She contributes to movement-formodernlife.com, is the author of the DVD 'Vinyasa Yoga: A Steady, Mindful Practice', and has a Masters with distinction in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS, University of London.Dervish, Tarik: - Tarik Dervish holds an honours degree in Ayurveda and has had 15 years of clinical experience in the field. He is also a Teacher Trainer, Verifier and Modules Officer for the British Wheel of Yoga, the largest Yoga organisation in the UK. He has a passion for educating the Yoga community in the basic principles of Ayurveda and has been running courses and workshops in Ayurveda for Yoga practitioners since 2001. He also runs Yoga Foundation and Teacher Training courses in London and Brighton. He has a special interest in techniques that work with the 'energy body' and his teaching is inspired by ancient tantric techniques as well as a variety of other healing modalities. He is a regular contributor to Spectrum magazine and is also involved in a health charity called the Helios Foundation that works with less advantaged people living with chronic health conditions. He lives in Brighton and runs workshops all over the country. For more information about his work, visit www.yogawell.co.ukAppleton, Katy: - Katy Appleton, Founder & Director of appleyoga, brings to yoga more than 25 years of expertise in movement through ballet, Pilates, body tuning, breath and energy work. She is an internationally recognised teacher of vinyasa flow and is known for bringing the true essence of yoga alive in a student's body mind in creative, dynamic and life transforming ways. Her teaching is biomechanically savvy whilst fun and playful, invoking a deeper embodied sense of self within a practice. Her integrated teaching style involves an eclectic mix of dynamic vinyasa, bhakti yoga, (the heart essence path), structured alignment, philosophy, mantra, sufi poetry and wicked musical vibes. She draws on her experiences to form her own style of yoga, known worldwide as appleyoga. Katy is also the creator of the appleyoga school, running life-transforming teacher trainings, apple adventure worldwide retreats and online courses. She has published several yoga books and award-winning DVDs for home practice.Burns, Graham: - Graham Burns has taught yoga professionally since 2001, principally at The Life Centre and Triyoga in London. Graham teaches yoga history, philosophy, Sanskrit and meditation on the Yogacampus Yoga Teacher Training Diploma courses in London, Manchester and Yorkshire, and also serves as a board member for the Manchester and Yorkshire courses, as well as leading workshops and trainings in the UK and abroad. His main yoga teaching influences over the years have been Richard Freeman, Rod Stryker and Simon Low. As well as a law degree from a previous life, Graham has a MA (with Distinction) in Indian Religions from SOAS, University of London, where he has also lectured on the MA course in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation and currently teaches undergraduate Hinduism. He is currently completing his PhD at SOAS on the development of teachings on ultimate reality in the Vedic Upaniṣads.Moutran, Natasha: - Natasha Moutran is the Co-Founder of The Retreat Collection and an international yoga and meditation teacher. Natasha started her journey as a teacher out of the love and joy of her yoga practice and her wish to share this with London and around the world. She has been teaching for over six years, offering retreats and classes both in London and across the globe, sharing her love of yoga and meditation wherever she goes. Having trained with appleyoga, Natasha has gone on to study with a number of inspiring teachers, gaining further insight into this realm in order to offer more through her teachings and is currently completing her 1000hrs in Yoga Medicine. Natasha continues to work with appleyoga and is an appleyoga teacher and mentor on the appleyoga Teacher Trainings. Natasha has since gone on to also become the Co-Founder and Director of The Retreat Collection, a luxury boutique retreat company offering transformational and beautiful retreats around the world.Walker, Kate: - Having grown up in New York and Los Angeles, Kate Walker started studying yoga in 1998. She was the weakest, most inflexible person in the yoga room, but persevered as the quiet and calm internal state was unlike anything she had ever known. Having now taken part in numerous teacher trainings, she credits Max Strom, Edward Clark, Seane Corn, Annie Carpenter, Judith Lasater and Rodney Yee as her main influences. Kate specialises in teaching all level classes with a balance of mindful, strong, breath and alignment-based vinyasa flow with restorative yoga and relaxation. She is one of the most popular teachers at Europe's largest yoga venue, Triyoga in London, where she teaches regular classes and workshops. She has released two DVDs, one an all levels vinyasa yoga DVD, and one a restorative yoga and relaxation DVD, both available through her website: katewalkeryoga.com.Boyle, Antonia: - Antonia Boyle is a Master Practitioner Neuro Linguistic Programming and qualified NLP Health Specialist. She is director of Training of Alpha Waves International PDS. She uses NLP in her Out-come Focused Coaching Brief Therapy Practice and training programmes. She works as a trainer, coach and therapist with a wide range of people. For the last 20+ years a large part of her work has been working one to one with clients at the Westerham NLP Practice in Kent. Her other areas of expertise are yoga, meditation and relaxation. She trained yoga teachers for more than 20 years for the British Wheel of Yoga. Her two day NLP for Yoga teachers is recognised by the British Wheel of Yoga as part of their continuing education programme for yoga tutors.She has produced a CD four part relaxation mini course which combines NLP with relaxation. http: //www.alphawavesnlp.co.uk/untangle-your-mind-relax-your-body.html. Visit her website for further information on courses www.alphawavesnlp.co.ukCooper, Melanie: - Melanie has been teaching yoga for 20 years. She is passionate about making yoga safe and right for everyone individually. She mainly divides her time between England and Goa, practising and teaching yoga and sometimes dancing on the beach. For many years she was running the morning Mysore program at the Life Centre, one of London's most prestigious yoga centres. She now lives in Bristol and runs regular classes, workshops, teacher trainings and retreats in UK, Europe and India and is the author of 'Teaching Yoga Adjusting Asana'.Kaley-Isley, Lisa: - Lisa Kaley-Isley, is a practising yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and yoga therapy educa-tor in London UK. Lisa is on the Board of Directors for the Yogacampus Yoga Thera-py Diploma course. She teaches and supervises students on the course, and is Director of the Yoga Therapy Clinic in Islington. Lisa is a long-term student of Yogarupa Rod Stryker and Pandit Rajmani Tigunait in the Para Yoga and Himalayan Institute tradi-tions. She received yoga therapy training in the American Viniyoga tradition with Gary Kraftsow. Lisa earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology in the US in 1992. From 1998 until her move to the UK in 2009 Lisa served in various roles at The Children's Hospital, Colorado including Director of Psychology Training, Chief of Psychology, and founding Clinical Director of the Pediatric Integrative Medicine Program. She conducted research into the effectiveness of yoga for reducing symptoms of anxiety, depression, and somatisation in adolescents diagnosed with medical and mental health disorders exacerbated by stress. She presented her findings at conferences across the US and has published articles on yoga for adolescents.Wong, Paul: - Paul is Owner and teacher at Mudra Yoga London based in Stoke Newington in North-East London. He started out renting and running yoga classes from various community spaces around London with his partner and fellow yoga teacher Emily-Clare Hill before they decided on opening their own studio. These formative years and the experience of running community-based classes provided the ethos and ideas behind Mudra to provide a friendly and accessible community orientated yoga studio with expert passionate teachers. Ever present at the studio Paul is the heartbeat of Mudra and takes great pride in providing an open space for students to feel welcome and inspired when they come to practise. Paul's drive for community wellbeing and positivity shines through every class and is at the core of everything at the studio. |
