Bøker av Gudjon Bergmann

This valuable guidebook is intended for yoga teachers. The author is an experienced yoga educator (E-RYT 500). He ran his own yoga studio for five years, has taught well over 6000 yoga classes, and trained 80 yoga teachers. The guidebook is practical and explains how yoga teachers can create a safe space for their students and how both the students and teacher can prosper and grow. Topics include clear boundaries between teachers and students, personal practice, teaching philosophy, time management, self-confidence, the myth of the yoga voice, marketing, boredom, using prior experience, encouraging growth and questioning, ethics and more, all the time drawing on the author's years of experience and his interactions with his yoga teacher trainees through the years. The book is not written for any specific style, branch or brand of yoga, but for all yoga teachers, regardless of their affiliations and background.

In this novel about yoga, self-discovery, wisdom, and human frailty, we follow sixteen yoga teacher trainees over a five week period. We experience the day to day activities at the ashram, where strict rules, close living quarters and friction between authentic yoga and it's Westernized counterpart create circumstances of turmoil and discord as well as moments of enlightenment. As we follow the interplay between the students, staff, and colorful characters who frequent the ashram, instants of discovery, empathy, and sadness pull us ever deeper into the struggle between inborn human tendencies and the yearning to rise above them.