Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies

How can a yoga teacher help overweight students feel safe and accepted?

How can he or she help overweight students to adapt an asana if needed, and still maintain good alignment and safety?

This guide is unique. Written for yoga teachers, but also useful for overweight students of yoga, it can help you find the answers to these questions.

Please note: In this guide, the author, Dr. Kay Erdwinn, describes herself as "having been fat all my life," and freely uses the word "fat" throughout. She uses the word in its true sense: as a simple descriptor, not as a demeaning term. We honor her stance and support her desire to see "fat" rescued from being an insult. We therefore have left the guide as she wrote it. We look forward to the day when "fat" is no more demeaning than "tall" or "brunette." Thank you, Kay, for your integrity and for this excellent guide.

Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies

Introduction

1. Adho Mukha Shvasana
2. Ardha Matsyendrasana
3. Balasana
4. Bhujangasana
5. Chandrasana
6. Dandasana
7. Dhanurasana
8. Garudasana
9. Janushirasana
10. Jathara Parivartanasana
11. Matsyasana
12. Padahastasana
13. Parvatasana
14. Paschimotanasana
15. Salabhasana
16. Sarvangasana
17. Sasamgasana
18. Savasana
19. Setu Banghasana
20. Siddhasana
21. Standing Backward Bend
22. Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation)
23. Tadasana
24. Trikonasana
25. Ustrasana
26. Utkatasana
27. Vajrasana
28. Viparita Karani
29. Virabhadrasana
30. Vrikasana