The Autistic Yogi Reflects on Books for Adjusting, Assisting, Modifying Yoga Asana

  Adjustments, Modifications, Assists, Propping, Helping, Supporting, Directing, Coaching.

What ever you want to call it, if your a teacher or practitioner of yoga  than it is bound to come up in a class, out of a class, and sometime in the most random places, either as discussion or actually adjusting, assisting, modifying, analyzing a posture.

Here is an examination of the current literature that is covering how to help others in their postures through assisting physically or examining prop use to facilitate a deeper understanding of the self and yoga.

1. Yoga Adjustments: Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques by Mark Stephens. Mark has certainly put out a set of books that is quickly going to become a market standard for 200 hour teacher trainings. This book is a nice look at all the basic knowledge needed to safely and effectively offer modifications in a yoga class. In Kindle & Print. 
2. Yoga's Touch: Hands-On Adjustments, Alignment & Verbal Cues (Fixed Layout) by Martia Bennett Rachman. Very clear and concise pictures in this book.  I purchases the standard layout kindle version without realizing there were 2 versions and mine is not the updated version, so be careful and make sure its labeled as (Fixed Layout). In Kindle only.
3. Yoga Posture Adjustments and Assisting: An Insightful Guide for Yoga Teachers and Students By Stephanie Pappas. This seamed to be the industry standard as it was one of the first books that came out that treated Adjustments in Yoga as a stand alone theory and practice. For the price you are better served with going with the books above this as they are cheaper with just as much information and better picture clarity and layouts.
4. Yoga Assists - by Sharon Gannon and David Life. Decently put together. Simple to understand and innovative in the way they did their diagramming. Worth every penny. In Kindle and Print.
5. Extra Love: The Art of Hands-On Assists - The Definitive Manual for Yoga Teachers, Assistants and Advanced Students, Volume One - By Jill Abelson. I have not yet had a chance to look into this book. I guess this means an order must be made :)  After looking at how many pages (under 80 pages of useful info) are in this manual and the ticket price that exceeds much better choices, I would pass on purchasing this manual. Considering that her 2 volumes run higher than $50 together and contain less info in the 2 then the first 3 options above. In Print only.
6. Yoga: The Art of Adjusting by Brian Cooper. Spiral bound hard cover book. I have not purchased it yet as it is expensive for 137 pages of knowledge pertaining to this subject.
7. Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones, and More by Andrew Biel and Robin Dorn. It can be very helpful to learn about the anatomy of the body and discover what you are touching when assisting other people in yoga postures.
8. If you know of any other manuals please let me know so I can look at it.

The Autistic Yogi Reflects on Books Series:

1. The Autistic Yogi Reflects on Books for Adjusting, Assisting, Modifying Yoga Asana
2. The Autistic Yogi Reflects on Books for Yoga Asana
3. The Autistic Yogi Reflects on Books for Anatomy & Physiology of Yoga Asana