Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Teaching Yoga
Mark Stephens · 2011
78/100
👍 Worth It
Mark Stephens has produced the most comprehensive single-volume yoga teacher training reference available, and the integration of philosophy, anatomy, and practical sequencing across 150-plus photographs is genuinely impressive. It is a serious professional resource that earns its Yoga Alliance adoption. Faith families with concerns about Hindu and Buddhist philosophical content should know this book presents those roots fully and respectfully — it does not strip the spirituality out of the practice.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: substantial Hindu and Buddhist philosophical content — faith families should be aware. We still scored it 78; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety78
substance84
craft78
originality72
accuracy82
hype76
age-fit85
human-eye80
Penny’s verdict78
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