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The benefits of yoga are valuable to people of all ages and all fitness levels. Yoga teachers have a responsibility to keep classes fresh and challenging to help students discover their unlimited potential available. Motivational Yoga simplifies that task with 100 easy-to-follow lesson plans that vary in length. The yoga lesson plans progress from basic yoga asana and pranayama lessons for beginning students to more advanced material such as mindfulness and meditation.
Fully customizable to meet individual student needs, these ready-to-use yoga lesson plans will save you valuable preparation time. Choose from beginning lessons focusing on body and breath awareness, basic postures, and breathing, or select more advanced instruction on the yamas and niyamas, guided relaxation, the heart center, the chakras, emotions, and mindfulness. You’ll also find lessons for kids, older adults, athletes, and pregnant women to ensure you are equipped to serve all populations.
Course Curriculum
Most of the lesson plans offer a written script for use in class, or as a guide for student home practice purposes. For beginning teachers, these scripts provide a helpful structure and set the stage for mindful yoga instruction. Veteran teachers may use these lessons and scripts as a creative departure point for expanding on one of the eight limbs of raja yoga or designing a tailored focus for the day’s practice. Motivational Yoga is a starting point for bringing yoga’s abundant teachings into the daily lives of teachers and students alike. For ease of planning and organization, each lesson follows a five-part outline:
- The intention provides the focus for the day’s yoga class.
- The lesson (script) embodies the essence of the day’s teaching.
- The Asanas for Deepening section illustrate the lesson through body stretch, movement, and sensation.
- The Motivation Off the Mat section presents suggestions, homework assignments, and reminders for practicing the yoga teachings outside of the classroom.
- Teacher Tips and Wise Words offer advice for fine-tuning sequences and proverbs that convey a specific thought or feeling for the lesson.
In addition, five full-length workshop lesson plans help you expand your teaching beyond a traditional class to offer focused workshops to your students on these popular topics: Spring Cleaning Yoga Detox, The Joy of Backbends, Yoga for Absolute Beginners, Introduction to Meditation, and Transformational Breath.
With each lesson, Motivational Yoga demonstrates how the strength, balance, and stretching of the physical practice can inspire a healthy, complete, and joyous existence on and off the mat.
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This book had a very good review of Yoga Philosophy. What I liked most were examples of different types of classes for different populations such as kids and mature adults. Also, there were examples of many types of workshops as well as a review of breathing techniques, poses, sun salutations and sequences. It will be a go to book for review and new ideas.
I was very impressed by the author's ability to put learning and teaching yoga into a new perspective for me. While I was studying the material, I also used many of the lessons provided. It gave my students new information and motivation to live the yoga lifestyle. I will continue to provide lessons from Motivational Yoga for my students.
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Great information, amazing learning tools
This book had a very good review of Yoga Philosophy. What I liked most were examples of different types of classes for different populations such as kids and mature adults. Also, there were examples of many types of workshops as well as a review of breathing techniques, poses, sun salutations and sequences. It will be a go to book for review and new ideas.
I was very impressed by the author’s ability to put learning and teaching yoga into a new perspective for me. While I was studying the material, I also used many of the lessons provided. It gave my students new information and motivation to live the yoga lifestyle. I will continue to provide lessons from Motivational Yoga for my students.