Yoga Sequencing

Yoga Sequencing: Designing Transformative Yoga Classes is an essential resource for yoga instructors looking to elevate their teaching. This comprehensive guide features over sixty-seven expertly designed yoga sequences, tailored for students of all levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Discover dedicated sequences for children, teens, women at different life stages, and seniors, alongside specific classes aimed at alleviating depression and anxiety. Dive into the intricate world of chakras and discover sequences crafted for each major chakra and ayurvedic constitution. Each sequence not only includes detailed pose descriptions but also integrates breathing techniques (pranayama) and meditation practices that enhance the transformative benefits of yoga.

With more than 2,000 instructional photos, this book blends timeless yoga philosophy with the latest insights into functional anatomy, biomechanics, and kinesiology. Learn the interconnectedness of asanas within various families and explore how to stabilize and deepen each pose to fulfill specific student needs and intentions. An extensive appendix offers a glossary of yoga terms, an asana index featuring thumbnail images, class planning worksheets, and a curated list of resources for those eager to delve deeper into the art of sequencing and teaching yoga. This text is ideal for yoga instructors, enthusiasts, and anyone looking to enrich their yoga practice. Enjoy FREE shipping on this vital addition to your yoga library—please allow up to 10 days for delivery.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781583944974
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2012
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Pages: 352


Description:
Yoga Sequencing- Designing Transformative Yoga Classes presents the essential principles and methods for planning and sequencing yoga classes. Addressing one of the most popular topics in the yoga profession, this book offers sixty-seven model sequences of yoga poses (asanas) that cover the broad range of yoga student experience, including multiple sequences for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students; yoga for kids, teens, women across the life cycle, and seniors; classes to relieve depression and anxiety; and sequences for each of the major chakras and ayurvedic constitutions. Each sequence provides guidance for teaching the different breathing (pranayama) and meditation techniques that give yoga its transformative power.

Enhanced with over 2,000 instructional photos and an elaborate guide to the constituent elements of over 150 yoga asanas, the book draws equally from ancient yoga philosophy and contemporary insights into functional anatomy, biomechanics, and kinesiology. The nuanced interrelationships among asanas within and between the seven asana families are explored and the anatomy of opening and stabilizing each pose is explained for sequences designed around specific needs and intentions. A comprehensive appendix includes a glossary of yoga-related terms, an alphabetical asana index with thumbnail photographs of each asana, a class planning worksheet, representative sequences from several popular styles of hatha yoga, and a list of resources for further exploring sequencing and the larger practice of teaching yoga.

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