Weaving Mindfulness and Compassion into Yoga Teaching

This is important. What you are holding in your hands is crucial reading for all yoga teachers and all committed yoga practitioners … you will find jewels within these pages. – Norman Blair, author and yoga teacherAs the Foreword says, this book is important. Packed full of common sense advice, as well as wide-ranging and accessible practical tools for teachers and students, it is an essential reminder that yoga is not about performance, but about giving ourselves space and time really to get to know ourselves, and to meet what we find with compassion, non-judgment, and the willingness to change. An incredibly valuable resource for yoga teachers new and old. – Dr. Graham Burns, Yoga teacher and teacher trainer

In the 21st century, the word yoga has become synonymous with the physical practice of yoga postures, relegating this time-tested spiritual technology to a form of calisthenics with Sanskrit names. Having jettisoned the essential values of yoga, modern practitioners are being short-changed of what could be a much deeper experience with rich rewards.Anna Taylor’s Weaving Mindfulness and Compassion Into Yoga Teaching, reasserts that yoga’s primary purpose is to reduce suffering and to awaken an awareness of ourselves and the world that is both clear and compassionate. What I love about this book is the warmth of the author’s voice which makes the reading of this book feel like a warm balm for the soul. I highly recommend this accessible book, not only for yoga teachers, but for anyone interested in understanding yoga, themselves, and what a yoga practice can be when it is reconnected to the heart of a living tradition.

Anna Taylor is a Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals, an IAYT Accredited Yoga Therapist and a Mindfulness & Compassion Instructor, currently based in London. Anna is passionate about sharing these teachings with clients and fellow teachers, and has been on the teaching faculty of a range of teacher training programmes including MindfulnessUK, Yoga On The Lane and YogaCampus.