Drawing on decades of experience training Yoga teachers and cowriting the California Yoga Teachers Association (CYTA) code of ethics, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for teaching Yoga. A bonus CD features the author speaking about Yoga ethics at a 2002 conference.
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Drawing on decades of experience training Yoga teachers and cowriting the California Yoga Teachers Association (CYTA) code of ethics, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for teaching Yoga. A bonus CD features the author speaking about Yoga ethics at a 2002 conference.
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Drawing on decades of experience, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for yoga teachersConsidered the "teacher of teachers," Donna Farhi has led international yoga retreats and trained yoga instructors around the world for over thirty years. InTeaching Yoga, she shares the knowledge she's gained from her decades of experience, exploring with depth and compassion a variety of practical and philosophical topics such as-.The student-teacher relationship and how to create healthy boundaries.How to create physical and emotional safety for the student.Reasonable class sizes and how much they should cost.How to conduct the business of teaching while upholding the integrity of yoga as a philosophy, a science, and an artFilled with personal anecdotes and illustrations,Teaching Yogais an essential resource for current or aspiring yoga instructors with questions about creating a safe, empowering space for themselves and their students.
About the Author
Donna Farhi has practiced yoga for twenty-eight years and has taught internationally for over two decades. One of America's most respected and loved yoga teachers, she travels throughout the world leading retreats and training others to teach. Farhi has been an Asana columnist for both Yoga Journal and Yoga International and is the author of the contemporary classics The Breathing Book and Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit. Born in America, she now resides in New Zealand.
Drawing on decades of experience in training Yoga teachers, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for yoga teachers. Teaching Yoga explores with depth and compassion a variety of topics both practical and philosophical, including how to create healthy boundaries; the student-teacher relationship (including whether a sexual relationship is acceptable); how to create physical and emotional safety for the student; what is a reasonable class size; how much a class should cost; and how to conduct the business of teaching while upholding the integrity of Yoga as a philosophy, a science, and an art. A bonus CD features the author speaking about yoga ethics at a 2002 conference.
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