Motivational Yoga With CE Exam

The package components are as follows:

• Motivational Yoga text
• Continuing education exam (accessed online)

The benefits of yoga are valuable to people of all ages and all fitness levels. As a yoga teacher, you have a responsibility to keep your classes fresh and challenging to help students discover their unlimited potential. Motivational Yoga With CE Exam simplifies that task with 100 easy-to-follow lesson plans that vary in length. The lessons progress from basic yoga asana and pranayama lessons for beginning students to more advanced material such as mindfulness and meditation.

Fully customizable to meet individual student needs, these ready-to-use lessons will save you valuable preparation time. Choose from beginning lessons focusing on body and breath awareness, basic postures, and breathing, or select more advanced instruction on the yamas and niyamas, guided relaxation, the heart center, the chakras, emotions, and mindfulness. You’ll also find lessons for kids, older adults, athletes, and pregnant women to ensure you are equipped to serve populations with different needs.

With each lesson, Motivational Yoga demonstrates how the strength, balance, and stretching of the physical practice can inspire a healthy, complete, and joyous existence on and off the mat.

In addition, five full-length workshop lesson plans help you expand your teaching beyond a traditional class to offer focused workshops to your students on these popular topics: Spring Cleaning Yoga Detox, The Joy of Backbends, Yoga for Absolute Beginners, Introduction to Meditation, and Transformational Breath.

Upon completing the book, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to do the following:

• Describe the important points to consider when structuring lesson plans.
• Demonstrate various breathing exercises, asanas, and sequences.
• List the benefits of yoga.
• Explain intention setting in yoga.
• Summarize the benefits of a pranayama practice.
• Discuss the benefits of positive motivation and gratitude.
• Describe how energy level influences quality of life.
• Describe the importance of the yamas and niyamas.
• List the seven chakras.
• Explain the concept of mindfulness.
• Explain how yoga influences emotions.
• Identify asanas that release emotions that are stored in the body.
• Describe the process of developing a workshop.
• Explain the importance of a home yoga practice and possible obstacles.

Audience

A continuing education course for yoga instructors, personal trainers, group exercise instructors, and other certified fitness professionals.

Introduction
Teaching What You Need to Learn
Tips From the Front of the Room
Eight Limbs of Raja Yoga

Chapter 1. Beginning Lessons
Beginner’s Flow
First Class Facts
Learning Diaphragmatic Breathing
Benefits of Yoga
Softening the Edges
Body Tension
Lengthening the Exhalation
Defining Ha and Tha
Setting an Intention

Chapter 2. Breathing Practices
Smiling Breath Vinyasa
Two-to-One Breathing
Three-Part Exhalation
Ujjayi Breath
Nadi Shodhana
Opening the Left Channel

Chapter 3. Asana
Stepping Stone Vinyasa
Feet
Forward Bends
Backbends
Twists
Headstand
Asana and Acceptance
Asana and Peace
Sequencing a Class

Chapter 4. Salutations in Motion
Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutation)
Chandra Namaskara (Moon Salutation)
Star Salutation
Earth Salutation
Salutation to the Self

Chapter 5. Prana
Wave Vinyasa
Holding On to Prana
Feeling the Flame
Prana and the Focused Mind
Storing Prana

Chapter 6. Pranayama
What Is Pranayama?
Benefits of Pranayama
Working With Ha and Tha
Boosting the Immune System

Chapter 7. Motivation
Motivation in Motion
Moving Forward
Morning Gratitude Meditation
Energy Is Your Identity
Transformation
Reframing

Chapter 8. Yamas
Yamas: Moral Disciplines and Restraints
Yama 1: Ahimsa
Yama 2: Satya
Yama 3: Asteya
Yama 4: Brahmacharya
Yama 5: Aparigraha

Chapter 9. Niyamas
Niyama Flow
Niyama 1: Saucha
Niyama 2: Santosha
Niyama 3: Tapas
Niyama 4: Svadhyaya
Niyama 5: Ishvara Pranidhana

Chapter 10. Chakras
Chakra Flow
Chakra 1: Muladhara
Chakra 2: Svadhisthana
Chakra 3: Manipura
Chakra 4: Anahata
Chakra 5: Visuddha
Chakra 6: Ajna
Chakra 7: Sahasrara
Chakras and the Five Tibetans

Chapter 11. Mindfulness
Vinyasa for Awakening
Mindfulness: The Core of Practice
Paying Attention
Dharana
Mindfulness of Gratitude
Holiday Gratitude
Mindful Eating

Chapter 12. Lessons of the Heart Center
Anjali Mudra: Namaste
Seeds of Love
Expanding the Heart
Reversing Negative Emotion
Self-Love

Chapter 13. Emotions
Emotional Effects of Asana
Frustration in the Body
Empowerment of Change
The Only Constant Is Change
Fear
Letting Go
Clinging to Happiness
Patience

Chapter 14. Workshops
Spring Cleaning Yoga Detox
The Joy of Backbends
Yoga for Absolute Beginners
Introduction to Meditation
Transformational Breath

Chapter 15. Yoga for Special Populations
Yoga for Kids
Yoga for Pregnancy
Yoga for Seniors
Yoga for Athletes
Chair Yoga

Chapter 16. Practices for Home and Office
Design a Practice to Support Your Needs
Obstacles to Practice
Keeping Your Home Practice Interesting
8 Minutes to Awesome
10-, 20-, and 60-Minute Home Practices
Busting Through Anxiety
Bedtime Yoga
Good Morning Bed Yoga
Chair Yoga at Work

Chapter 17. Guided Relaxation
Be a Corpse
Expanding the Light
Favorite Place
Dark Cloud
Journey Through the Chakras
Silent Chanting

Nancy Gerstein is a yoga teacher, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the creator of Motivational Yoga, a yoga style that empowers life decisions, goals, and results. Nancy’s teachings incorporate spiritually strengthening practices that bolster personal growth and self-motivation. Her classes feed the body and the mind, encouraging students to make conscious choices about how they direct thoughts, energy, and physical focus to live the best live they can. It's Nancy's belief that a genuine yoga practice begins within.

A Himalayan Institute–certified yoga teacher, Nancy is a frequent contributor to yoga publications and websites, including Elephant Journal, Yogi Times, Yoga Magazine, and Yoga and Health Magazine, and she is the author of Guiding Yoga’s Light (Human Kinetics), a go-to reference book for yoga teachers and students. Motivational Yoga is Nancy’s third book.

Nancy resides in Morton Grove, Illinois. In her free time she enjoys hiking, traveling, and trying most things at least once.