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Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2

54 New Themes, Templates, and Ideas for Integrating Inspiration into Your Class

Author Sage Rountree, Alexandra DeSiato
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$20.95 US
North Atlantic Books
7"W x 10"H | 13 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Mar 18, 2025 | 256 Pages | 9798889841951
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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.
"I love this book. It's a game changer for any of us looking for new, innovative, and inspiring ways to weave the deeper teachings of yoga into an often fast-paced, body-based practice."
—LINDA SPARROWE, former editor-in-chief of Yoga International and author of Yoga at Home and coauthor of The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health

"[This book is] not just a guide, it's an inspiration that encourages a deeper understanding of core yoga principles. From insightful reflections on Patanjali to Hindu mythology, asana, and other timeless yoga themes, this book offers numerous points of study and reflection. Its holistic approach reminds you that yoga is more than asana. This book is a beacon of light for teachers of all traditions, inspiring them to delve deeper into the rich philosophy of yoga."
—GABRIELLE HARRIS, author of The Language of Yin and The Inspired Yoga Teacher

"This treasure trove of a book will be an invaluable resource for yoga teachers looking for inspiration to uplift their teaching.... a must-read for both new and experienced yoga teachers alike."
—JILLY SHIPWAY, author of Yoga Through the Year

"Yoga students and teachers often desire to understand how to apply the teachings to their lives, communities, and the greater world. Sage and Alexandra have written a comprehensive, relatable guide meeting this desire.... [This book] illustrates how the path of yoga is meant to change us as teachers, guides, and facilitators; in turn, we can change and transform others through offering teachings from the path."
—MICHELLE JOHNSON, author of Skill in Action and Illuminating Our True Nature

"This second volume is full of confidence-building inspiration. If you want to find a way to address real-life concerns through a yogic lens, this book is for you. If you want to find a way to share your personal yoga epiphanies in a way that touches your students, this book is for you. Yoga is vast. Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2 offers yoga teachers direction and inspiration for how to shape, organize, and clearly share their wisdom in their yoga classes."
—CYNDI LEE, author of May I Be Happy and Drip Drip Drip, the Bucket Fills on substack

"A must-have resource for all yoga teachers. This book not only gives you step-by-step instructions for how to find your voice, easily theme your classes, and take your teaching to the next level, but you'll learn how to truly add impact and meaning for your students and go deeper into your own practice as well. This book is a game changer in the yoga world and needs to be mandatory reading for all yoga teachers."
—MARY OCHSNER, founder of the Yoga+ by Mary app
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.
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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.

Praise

"I love this book. It's a game changer for any of us looking for new, innovative, and inspiring ways to weave the deeper teachings of yoga into an often fast-paced, body-based practice."
—LINDA SPARROWE, former editor-in-chief of Yoga International and author of Yoga at Home and coauthor of The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health

"[This book is] not just a guide, it's an inspiration that encourages a deeper understanding of core yoga principles. From insightful reflections on Patanjali to Hindu mythology, asana, and other timeless yoga themes, this book offers numerous points of study and reflection. Its holistic approach reminds you that yoga is more than asana. This book is a beacon of light for teachers of all traditions, inspiring them to delve deeper into the rich philosophy of yoga."
—GABRIELLE HARRIS, author of The Language of Yin and The Inspired Yoga Teacher

"This treasure trove of a book will be an invaluable resource for yoga teachers looking for inspiration to uplift their teaching.... a must-read for both new and experienced yoga teachers alike."
—JILLY SHIPWAY, author of Yoga Through the Year

"Yoga students and teachers often desire to understand how to apply the teachings to their lives, communities, and the greater world. Sage and Alexandra have written a comprehensive, relatable guide meeting this desire.... [This book] illustrates how the path of yoga is meant to change us as teachers, guides, and facilitators; in turn, we can change and transform others through offering teachings from the path."
—MICHELLE JOHNSON, author of Skill in Action and Illuminating Our True Nature

"This second volume is full of confidence-building inspiration. If you want to find a way to address real-life concerns through a yogic lens, this book is for you. If you want to find a way to share your personal yoga epiphanies in a way that touches your students, this book is for you. Yoga is vast. Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Volume 2 offers yoga teachers direction and inspiration for how to shape, organize, and clearly share their wisdom in their yoga classes."
—CYNDI LEE, author of May I Be Happy and Drip Drip Drip, the Bucket Fills on substack

"A must-have resource for all yoga teachers. This book not only gives you step-by-step instructions for how to find your voice, easily theme your classes, and take your teaching to the next level, but you'll learn how to truly add impact and meaning for your students and go deeper into your own practice as well. This book is a game changer in the yoga world and needs to be mandatory reading for all yoga teachers."
—MARY OCHSNER, founder of the Yoga+ by Mary app

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.
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