companionship
on the page.
Books to help bring you back to yourself.
Less Lost
Somewhere between “should” and “supposed to,” you lost track of your true self.
When you’re in that place, you don’t need a ten-step plan to your “best life”—you need the companionship of someone who’s also felt lost and now feels less lost.
Through stories drawn from yoga practices, motorcycle rides, moments in nature, client sessions and even a chance encounter with the Dalai Lama, Jay Moon Fields shares her work, so to speak—both her messy inner work, as well as the work she’s guided others through.
Her essays invite you to see yourself more clearly, reclaim ignored or forgotten parts of you, and remember that you’re not the only weirdo who feels the way you do. Each chapter closes with an embodied practice or practical tool to help you take the theme off the page and into your life, so you can make it truly yours.
Less Lost isn’t about chasing a perfect version of yourself. It’s about living a life where you have a good experience of yourself—a life where you can soften in hard times, stand in discomfort without disappearing, connect with others without abandoning yourself, and draw boundaries without detonating your relationships.
Because you don’t need to fix yourself. You just need to find your way back to being yourself.
Teaching People,
Not Poses
12 Principles for teaching yoga with integrity
In yoga teacher training you are taught how to teach the yoga poses but not necessarily much about the art of teaching. Or perhaps I should say the heart of teaching–how to show up as a human being with all of your gifts, passions, fears and insecurities and teach the best class you can. Whether a total newbie to teaching or a seasoned veteran, the 12 Principles for Teaching People, Not Poses are pillars to support you in being a truly remarkable yoga teacher.
1. Be yourself.
2. Practice.
3. Show your vulnerability and your expertise.
4. Teach from your own experience.
5. If you don’t know, say you don’t know.
6. Stay in your body.
7. Don’t take it all so seriously.
8. Remember that your students are people.
9. Learn anatomy.
10. Plan enough so that you can be spontaneous.
11. Remember who and what supports you.
12. Don’t try to please everyone.
With a chapter dedicated to each principle, stories from Jay's fourteen years of experience as a yoga teacher, teaching tips and questions for you to reflect upon about your own experience as a teacher, this book helps you to find the truth of your own teaching.In turn, you become the most confident, real and inspiring yoga teacher you can be.
“I turn to Jay’s writings to keep myself grounded in my body and resonating with myself. ”
“I admire Jay’s ability to look deeply at the mystery of our personal and collective journey and to help me explore it from my own perspective.”
“Jay has a way of framing things that facilitates awareness and growing within. Her words are high-grade fertilizer for the true self. ”
“I’m constantly amazed at how in sync Jay’s writing is with what is happening in my life. Her inspiring words and guidance are a gift. ”