Yoga Business

Thousands of yoga lovers take teacher training courses each year, hoping to share what they learn with others. Many want to make yoga teaching their full-time career, but most training programs fall short in covering business acumen, and they may not equip graduates with the entrepreneurial skills and savvy they need to make a go of it. This indispensable and inspiring book guides both new and established professionals toward maximizing their impact as teachers and achieving their career goals.

Yoga is thought of by many as a fitness hobby—a gentler alternative to SoulCycle and CrossFit—but its underlying philosophy offers much more than a good workout. Yoga can relieve stress, focus the mind, and provide a path to reinvention, resilience, and a meaningful life. In Beyond the Mat, physician, executive, and yoga instructor Julie Rosenberg reveals how the essential lessons of the four-thousand-year-old Yoga Sutras contain a relevant framework in which to thrive both personally and professionally.

Non tutto ciò che provoca piacere conduce verso la felicità. L'essere umano vive una continua tensione tra Eros e Amore: la mera soddisfazione dei desideri sensoriali, da un lato, ed una necessità insopprimibile di idealità, dall'altro. Pur essendo in perenne viaggio alla ricerca della felicità, spesso orienta i propri desideri verso piaceri effimeri, che infine producono vuoto interiore e sofferenza. Come si può quindi essere felici? Ricercando la vera felicità nell'autentico Amore, quello che vive nella congiunzione tra anime, spiega Marco Ferrini.

Et si le management s'inspirait du yoga ? Un ouvrage inspirant qui propose un regard unique sur le "travailler ensemble". Alors que le climat en entreprise se dégrade (52 % des salariés présentent un niveau élevé d'anxiété selon l'étude 2017 du Cabinet Stimulus), le yoga rassemble environ 2,5 millions de pratiquants en France et 300 millions dans le monde. Aussi surprenant que cela puisse paraître, le management et le yoga ont plus de points communs qu'on ne le croit.

Play It Forward details the remarkable journey of Joan Barnes, founder and former CEO of Gymboree, and how she learned to align her inner life with outward success. Forty years ago Joan Barnes founded a play center in a church basement with $3,000. Determined to enable women to achieve personal and entrepreneurial success, Barnes led Gymboree to become an innovative leader in a new industry: activity-based early childhood development.