Chicago, IL—Yoga teacher Nancy Gerstein has just released Guiding Yoga's Light (Human Kinetics) a book of 74 succinct, easy-to-follow yoga lesson plans to guide students through the multifaceted lessons of yoga. These include breathing lessons, teaching the yamas and niyamas, learning the chakras, and creating mindfulness. The book also includes three new, teacher-requested chapters: Salutations in Motion, Lessons of the Heart Center, and Relaxation.
Guiding Yoga’s Light emphasizes the importance of using the ancient, yet relevant lessons of yoga philosophy and integrating them into daily living. "I have seen countless students inspired and ultimately changed by the systematic, healing teachings of yoga. To live a healthy, complete and joyous existence, the real yoga practice begins when we leave the classroom,” states Gerstein.
The book takes students and teachers on a journey through the diverse aspects of yoga to understand the foundations of hatha practice. Complete lesson scripts are provided to help teachers focus each class and guide their students along the extraordinary yogic path. Beginning with the basics of breathing, Guiding Yoga's Light progresses to the physical and spiritual philosophy of the asanas and salutations and ends with lessons to bring clarity, calmness, and relaxation into daily living.
Guiding Yoga's Light: Lessons for Yoga Teachers interprets yoga's 5,000-year-old philosophy in an effort to inspire, delight, and empower yoga students to enrich their physical, emotional, and spiritual lives both on and off the mat. With each lesson, Guiding Yoga's Light demonstrates how the strength, balance, and stretching of the physical practice can inspire a healthy, complete, and joyous existence. For more information on Guiding Yoga's Light, visit www.guidingyogaslight.com.
Guiding Yoga's Light: Lessons for Yoga Teachers
Nancy Gerstein
Paperback • 256 pp
Human Kinetics
ISBN 978-0-7360-7428-
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nancy Gerstein has been a student of yoga for almost 30 years and a certified hatha yoga teacher with the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Philosophy and Science. Ms. Gerstein is also a reiki master practitioner and yoga therapist.
As a Wellness workshop speaker and freelance writer, Gerstein shares her experience as a yoga teacher and student emphasizing the systematic integration of yogic philosophy into daily living, encouraging her students to take their yoga out of the classroom. She is a member of the Himalayan Institute Teachers Association (HITA), the International Association of Yoga Therapists, Midwest Yoga Teacher's Network, and Yoga Alliance.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Beginning Lessons
Chapter 2: Breathing Practices
Chapter 3: Asana
Chapter 4: Salutations in Motion
Chapter 5: Prana
Chapter 6: Pranayama
Chapter 7: Yamas
Chapter 8: Niyamas
Chapter 9: Emotions
Chapter 10: Mindfulness
Chapter 11: Chakras
Chapter 12: Lessons of the Heart Center
Chapter 13: Relaxation
