Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers who want to Further Serve their Students

by Gudjon Bergmann

This valuable guidebook is intended for yoga teachers. The author is an experienced yoga educator (E-RYT 500). He ran his own yoga studio for five years, has taught well over 6000 yoga classes, and trained 80 yoga teachers. The guidebook is practical and explains how yoga teachers can create a safe space for their students and how both the students and teacher can prosper and grow. Topics include clear boundaries between teachers and students, personal practice, teaching philosophy, time management, self-confidence, the myth of the yoga voice, marketing, boredom, using prior experience, encouraging growth and questioning, ethics and more, all the time drawing on the author's years of experience and his interactions with his yoga teacher trainees through the years. The book is not written for any specific style, branch or brand of yoga, but for all yoga teachers, regardless of their affiliations and background.

86 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 2010

About the author

Gudjon Bergmann blends his background in spirituality, religion, and human psychology with 20 years of experience as a workshop facilitator, mindfulness teacher, and professional speaker. He has published two novels and several nonfiction books on self-development, yoga, meditation, stress management, interfaith, and more. Born in 1972 in Iceland, Bergmann moved to the USA in 2010 and became a U.S. citizen in 2013.