Holding Space: The Creative Performance and Voice Workbook for Yoga Teachers

This expert guide provides yoga teachers with the skills they need to understand how to care for and improve their voices technically, as well as how to express themselves authenticity and effectively as a teacher.

Being able to give instruction clearly and with emotional intelligence is part of the personal development that each yoga teacher goes through. This book offers instruction, support and ideas on how to embark on the journey of yoga teaching with greater confidence and mindfulness. After the basics in vocal projection, inflection and intonation are covered, the book details the psychological significance of believing in your own value and finding what makes each teacher unique and accessible to their students. It includes advice on safe boundaries in the student/teacher relationship, self-care, and tips on how to deal with common teaching mishaps with grace and humour.

Improvisation techniques and personal stories from other teachers help to expand the reader's skills further to create an affirming, practical guidebook for all yoga teachers.

Sarah Scharf, MFA is a yoga teacher, author and theatre artist. She holds an MFA in Physical Theatre and has completed multiple trainings in Yoga of various styles. In London she taught at Triyoga the largest studio in Europe and worked as a mentor for the Yogacampus Teacher Training. She runs popular workshops and trainings on voice work and performance skills for yoga teachers, and works as a movement director and teaching artist for theatre. She is an American currently living in Vienna. Her website is www.sarahscharf.com.