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Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship
by
Donna Farhi
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. Teaching Yoga explores with depth and compassion a variety of topics both practical and philosophical, including how to create healthy boundaries; the student...more
Paperback, 177 pages
Published
September 25th 2006
by Rodmell Press
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Useful for those interested in teaching yoga only, this book provides moments of ponder on some ethical dilemmas found in any subject classroom. It does so beautifully interwoven with Pantanjali's sutras. Foremost, the book challenges any yogi-wannabe that a profession of teaching Yoga must accompany the practice of living truthfully - that is to say, within the stated yamas and niyamas. Questions follow a short case study. Questions like, "Notice if you enjoy being put on a pedestal. How d...more
My first reflection after reading Teaching Yoga by Donna Farhi, is that I have SO much more to learn. The more I learn, the more I realize that I’ve only scratched the surface – really this applies to everything in life. Teaching yoga gives much insight into some of the ethical and operational dilemnas yoga teachers face. I absolutely recommend reading it for anyone considering teaching yoga....and probably re-reading again after teaching yoga for a year or more as a reminder. Read on if you ar...more
This book is really helpful. It's only 150 pages (without the glossary and bibliography), and it covers a lot of material without being dense. It really made me think about what it means to be a yoga teacher, the ethical dilemmas I might encounter, and how I might choose to deal with them. Farhi is very obviously qualified to write such a book, and I think her extensive knowledge on the subject is a boon to anyone who is thinking about teaching yoga.
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...more
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...more
Every Yoga teacher needs to study this book. What it has about ethics and the teacher-student relationship is really unique.
Amazing resource for yoga teachers! Required reading for the Therapist Training course I'm taking with Essential Yoga Therapy.
From the perspective of a student: spot-on. And incredibly well written.
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