Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2

Volume 2 of the bestselling guide for yoga teachers-design fresh, confident, and dynamic classes your students will love

54 inspired new themes- a full year of templates to engage, retain, and connect with your students

Volume 2 of the bestselling guide for yoga teachers-design fresh, confident, and dynamic classes your students will love

54 inspired new themes- a full year of templates to engage, retain, and connect with your students

This companion volume-with all-new material-offers 54 ready-made ideas and templates to elevate your classes, refine your voice, and teach inspired themes with joy and confidence.

Each chapter-like Rise to Joy, Less is More, and Rebel, Yogi!-introduces a series of updated themes. Authors Sage Rountree and Alexandra DeSiato offer practical upgrades to the bestselling first volume of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, with new prompts, expanded notes, and thoughtful cues to help you connect with students and center their experiences in class. Each template offers useful guidance on-

• Expounding on your theme and connecting it to both personal and universal experiences
  
• Chants, quotes, mantras, poems, or songs
  
• Specific practices that work with your theme
  
• Distilling your theme to a short sentence or intention for your class
  
• Takeaway ideas and helpful notes
  

Any of the 54 class themes can be used as-is or molded to embody your own personal teaching style and authentic voice. Each includes insightful options for opening your class, suggestions for what to say during movements and pauses, and helpful ideas for closing out strong. Grounded in the knowledge that yoga philosophy is applicable to our daily lives-and its wisdom is for all of us-this book offers adaptable and easy-to-use ways to transform your classes, empower your students, and build richer, more meaningful connections by teaching beyond the poses and into the world.

About the Authors

Sage Rountree holds a PhD in English literature and the highest level of registration with the Yoga Alliance (E-RYT500, YACEP). She co-owns the Carolina Yoga Company and directs its 200- and 300-/500-hour teacher trainings. Sage has taught the same Monday-evening class there for more than twenty years. She also offers a robust virtual studio at sagerountree.com, including classes, teacher trainings, and retreats. Sage's work gives yoga teachers everything they need to feel confident, relaxed, and helpful in front of the classroom. Her most recent books are The Art of Yoga Sequencing (2024) and The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook (2020). She lives in North Carolina with her husband, Wes.

Alexandra Desiato is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the highest level (E-RYT 500). She is also certified in Pilates and has an MA in English literature. Alexandra teaches and leads the 200-hour yoga teacher training at Carolina Yoga Company. Find videos, blog posts, and more at alexandradesiato.com. Alexandra has partnered with Sage on two other books- Lifelong Yoga (2017), about healthy aging and yoga, and Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses (2019), about yoga themes and inspiration. DeSiato is cocreator of a prenatal and postpartum yoga teaching collective, Whole Mama Yoga, and she cowrote the yoga for motherhood guidebook Whole Mama Yoga (2023).