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Teaching Yoga with Intention: The Essential Guide to Skillful Hands-On Assists and Verbal Communication

Teaching Yoga with Intention: The Essential Guide to Skillful Hands-On Assists and Verbal Communication

Lasater, Judith Hanson

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General PsychologySelf-HelpYoga

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ISBN10: 1611809371
ISBN13: 9781611809374
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The definitive guide to effective and appropriate communication through words and touch between yoga teachers and their students.

Clear, effective verbal communication and judicious touch are two skills that Judith Hanson Lasater feels are essential for every yoga teacher. In Teaching Yoga with Intention, she gives pointed advice on how to interact verbally with students in class and how to appropriately use touch to make corrections. Drawing from her fifty years of yoga experience and her training in Nonviolent Communication, Lasater trains yoga teachers to effectively communicate not only technique, but also the more subtle lessons of respect, empathy, and compassion. She also shines an unflinching light on the use of touch in yoga. Teachers often use touch to create understanding and awareness in the poses. But this is a subtle art, and Lasater gives clear guidance on how, where, and when the use of touch can be used appropriately to further a student's development.

In this book, Lasater also empowers students by encouraging them to take ownership of and responsibility for their practice. She covers myriad topics that can be difficult for students at any level to navigate, such as how and when to say no to an adjustment; keeping boundaries; when to leave a class; helping your teacher understand your needs; how to communicate your appreciation to your yoga teacher; and if and when to report a teacher's behavior. The skills that Lasater offers help create a safe environment for students to own their learning process, and to progress technically at their own speed.

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