Yoga Adjustments

Praise for Yoga Adjustments: Whether you're in training to be a teacher, just starting your teaching career, or a veteran with many years of experience, Mark Stephens' Yoga Adjustments will prove to be an invaluable resource. As with all his work, this book is written with intelligence, insight, and integrity. --Richard Rosen, director of teacher training at Piedmont Yoga and author of Original Yoga I'm very excited about Mark Stephens' new book, which offers an invaluable service to the yoga community--teachers, aspiring teachers, and yoga students. As yoga's popularity grows, we need our yoga teachers to mature as well, and Mark has given them a superb guidebook for making smart, safe, clear asana adjustments that further our understanding and deepen our experience of yoga. In this way, the benefits of Mark's expertise extend beyond the yoga community by demonstrating how healthy environments can be created in which anybody can practice yoga with confidence. --Cyndi Lee, founder of NYC's Om Yoga and author of May I Be Happy and Yoga Body, Buddha Mind This book is an important contribution to the ongoing evolution of yoga teaching and practice. Hands-on adjustments provide a quick and amazing two-way communication stream between teacher and student. Used with or without verbal cues, they can bypass most abstract theory and induce good alignment to reveal how a pose might feel when balanced, open, flowing, and free. Conversely, adjustments can be mechanical and even manipulative, seductive, and harmful. Because of this powerful potential in both ways, we all need to look intelligently at their mechanics, purposes, and ethics. Stephens' Yoga Adjustments is a wonderfully detailed resource for our investigation. --Richard Freeman, director of The Yoga Workshop and author of The Mirror of Yoga As someone who is regularly called upon to treat yoga students injured by ill-informed teachers, I can confidentlys