Yoga Inspirations are Alanna’s way of helping teachers embrace their full potential while teaching. Each one provides guidance and information on how to build classes around a particular theme in yoga. Alanna will give you ways to discuss the theme in class, readings to support it, asanas to illustrate it, and other clever ways to teach your students and go deeper in your own practice.
| 1. Yoga Inspirations: Ganesh $3.95 Add to Cart
Ganesh is often thought of as the remover of obstacles, but I prefer to think of him as the revealer of possibilities. 2. Yoga Inspirations: The Power of OM $3.95 Add to Cart Because Om has all meaning as well as no meaning, it is a great way to bring spirituality into your class through chanting it and balancing the energy in the room. 3. Yoga Inspirations: Hanuman! $3.95 Add to Cart Hanuman is a monkey deity and has a great story to illustrate certain things that, as yogis, we can learn, achieve, and use to go inside to find out what’s going on in heart and mind. 4. Yoga Inspirations: Abhyasa & Vairagya This Yoga Inspiration delves into what happens when we practice and detach and when we practice with detachment to the fruits of our actions. 5. Yoga Inspirations: Yoga Sutra 1.33 $3.95 Add to Cart In this yoga sutra, we learn how to stabilize the mind through cultivating a different, more tranquil attitude towards life. 6. Yoga Inspirations: Yoga Sutra 1.1 This very first yoga sutra discusses Patanjali’s ever-present act of now, which enables us to define yoga as practice for something greater than us. 7. Yoga Inspirations: Asteya Asteya, which means non-stealing, is one of the five yamas, the first step in the eight-limbed yoga path. 8. Yoga Inspirations: Gunas $3.95 Add to Cart The three gunas, or worldly qualities, are rajas, tamas, and sattva, which make up the material world. Explore what these gunas entail and where they manifest in our lives in this Yoga Inspiration. 9. Yoga Inspirations: Svadhyaya $3.95 Add to Cart Yoga demands that we study the self, which is the meaning of Svadyaya. In self-study, we engage in the process of reflection that furthers the processes of yoga. 10. Yoga Inspirations: Enlightenment $3.95 Add to Cart What is Enlightenment? And how does it relate to the material world we live in today? This Inspiration explores how yoga views this concept that extends to many major religions. 11. Yoga Inspirations: Guru $3.95 Add to Cart The guru, or teacher, literally translates into “from darkness into light.” The guru is a guide for the student so that they can recognize their true potential. 12. Yoga Inspirations: Vinyasa $3.95 Add to Cart A vinyasa is what we do between poses, but it is also the concept of moving with breath and staying in tune with life’s transitions, both on and off the mat. 13. Yoga Inspirations: Kleshas $3.95 Add to Cart The Kleshas are obstacles to happiness we face in the material world. Suffering is optional and happiness is our birthright. Yoga teaches us how to remove the obstacles to our own happiness. 14. Yoga Inspirations: Bhakti $3.95 Add to Cart Bhakti, or devotion, allows us to devote our practice to a power greater than ourselves. 15. Yoga Inspirations: Asana $3.95 Add to Cart While yoga classes are very physical, the physical postures/poses (asana) are only one part of Patanjali’s eightfold path. 16. Yoga Inspirations: Santosha $3.95 Add to Cart Santosha, or contentment, allows us to be happy with where we are in the present moment. In a yoga class, help your students find this attribute through enjoying where they are, rather than where they “could” be. 17. Yoga Inspirations: Ahimsa $3.95 Add to Cart Ahimsa is kindness, or non-harming. Kindness is a basic principle in how we get along with others and so, it is one of the Yamas. 18. Yoga Inspirations: Tapas $3.95 Add to Cart Tapas, or heat, is what we feel when we feed off each other’s energies. It allows us to move together, as a group and community. 19. Yoga Inspiration: Viveka What we’re talking about here is being able to see that which is real and not real. In this Yoga Inspiration, we discuss what is real and what is not real. 20. Yoga Inspiration: Peaceful Warrior $3.95 Add to Cart Learn how to teach, through the influence of the Bhagavad Gita, what it means to be a peaceful warrior through specific asana and ways to integrate the dharma talk into the class. 21. Yoga Inspirations: Yoga Sutra 2.1 22. Yoga Inspirations: Nadis $3.95 Add to Cart In this prelude to the chakras, we look at the nadis, the subtle energy channels that form chakras throughout the body. 23. Yoga Inspirations: Crown Chakra $3.95 Add to Cart The seventh and final chakra represents the goal of the journey as we move through the different levels of consciousness. 24. Yoga Inspirations: Third Eye Chakra The Third Eye chakra represents wisdom and how we can draw upon it as teachers. 25. Yoga Inspirations: Throat Chakra The throat chakra holds our ability to communicate clearly and honestly with our students and allows our students to communicate honestly with themselves. 26. Yoga Inspirations: Heart Chakra $3.95 Add to Cart This chakra represents our ability to love unconditionally and to be guided by the heart. Learn the various associations with this chakra and how to open it up through various asanas. 27. Yoga Inspirations: Third Chakra This third chakra is the seat of the ego. How do we use ego when we teach? How can we separate it from our yoga practice? 28. Yoga Inspirations: Second Chakra $3.95 Add to Car In this energy center lies your ability to create anything in the world. It is both the center for creativity and procreativity, meaning it balances our sexual and creative energies. 29. Yoga Inspirations: Root Chakra $3.95 Add to Cart The root chakra is where we find our sense of being grounded. When it is imbalanced – when we are away from home literally or metaphorically – we need to find practices that bring it back into balance. 30. Yoga Inspirations: Chakras The chakras are subtle energy centers throughout the body that reflect emotional feeling in physical manifestations. We move through and have the opportunity to balance them when we do asana. 31. Yoga Inspirations: Satya Satya is the principle of truthfulness and is part of the Yoga Sutras. Learn about its history, relation to broader yoga philosophy, and how to incorporate this principle into your classes. 32. Yoga Inspirations: Krishna $3.95 Add to Cart Krishna is featured in one of the primary yogic texts, the Bhagavad Gita, and his image is super relevant to yoga and lends us stories that enable us to practice. |
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