I want to let everyone know about an excellent book that deals with many aspects and responsibilities of being a Yoga teacher. This book is: "Teaching Yoga. Exploring the teacher-student relationship" by Donna Farhi. Donna discusses the many roles that a Yoga teacher can have in teaching Yoga, and deals with a lot of ethical issues centered around Yoga teaching. A number of the types of problematic issues brought up in recent posts are talked about. This book is very unique in its focus and I would highly recommend it to everyone!
This book should be required reading for any yoga teacher training. Not only does it bring up good ethics questions and promote discussion, it lays a foundation for how teachers should teach (and why they should - or shouldn't).
I've long felt that yoga in the West is seen as simply a form of exercise. But true yoga is so much more - it is a lifestyle, it is a belief system, it is the earnest undertaking of a practice to not only better yourself, but the world as a whole. I love that this book lays that out as a central tenet for teaching yoga: that you, as a teacher, are responsible to not only talk the talk, but to walk the walk. Teachers are living examples of the true spirit of yoga for their students - this book inspires us to act like it.
I've long felt that yoga in the West is seen as simply a form of exercise. But true yoga is so much more - it is a lifestyle, it is a belief system, it is the earnest undertaking of a practice to not only better yourself, but the world as a whole. I love that this book lays that out as a central tenet for teaching yoga: that you, as a teacher, are responsible to not only talk the talk, but to walk the walk. Teachers are living examples of the true spirit of yoga for their students - this book inspires us to act like it.
