Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2: 54 New Themes, Templates, and Ideas for Integrating Inspiration into Your Class

by Sage Rountree, Alexandra DeSiato

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798889841968
Publisher:	North Atlantic Books
Publication date:	03/18/2025
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256

About the Author

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. Rountree has taught the same Monday evening class there for over 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. DeSiato teaches and leads the 200-hour yoga teacher training at Carrboro Yoga Company. Find videos, blog posts, and more at alexandradesiato.com. DeSiato has partnered with Rountree on two books: Lifelong Yoga (2017),about healthy aging and yoga and Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses (2019), about yoga themes and inspiration. DeSiato is co-creator of a prenatal and postpartum yoga teaching collective, Whole Mama Yoga (wholemamayoga.com), and she co-wrote the yoga for motherhood guidebook, Whole Mama Yoga (2023).

LASHA MUTUAL (http://lashamutual.com) is an artist whose deep commitment to Buddhist theory and practice has suffused her artistic expression, giving rise to a body of work that blends the action of painting with a meditative sense of contemplation and focus. Lasha’s intention is to cultivate a generous, peaceful, and clear mind that becomes manifest in her artwork and that can be shared with others. She lives with her husband, son, and an abundance of pets in a little yellow brick cottage in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.