Motivational Yoga Online CE Exam With Print Book

This package includes the following:

• Motivational Yoga book
• Online continuing education exam

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 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.

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

Learning Objectives 

• 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.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1. Beginning Lessons
Chapter 2. Breathing Practices
Chapter 3. Asana
Chapter 4. Salutations in Motion
Chapter 5. Prana
Chapter 6. Pranayama
Chapter 7. Motivation
Chapter 8. Yamas
Chapter 9. Niyamas
Chapter 10. Chakras
Chapter 11. Mindfulness
Chapter 12. Lessons of the Heart Center
Chapter 13. Emotions
Chapter 14. Workshops
Chapter 15. Yoga for Special Populations
Chapter 16. Practices for Home and Office
Chapter 17. Guided Relaxation

Glossary
Recommended Reading List
Asana Index
About the Author

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.