Donald Butler
It only takes ten minutes a day to enjoy yoga's rewards. Over 100 different programs offer something new every day to focus the mind and stimulate the body. Each program blends relaxing movements and postures with healthy breathing techniques, and balances sharper mental concentration with an awakening of the spirit. Several of the greatest and most popular yoga traditions and techniques are represented: hatha, raja, karma, and bhakti. On your first day, you practice "The Moon," which stretches the long muscles along your sides, stimulating circulation and releasing toxins. By Day 50, you're into "A Giant Leap," which opens up the energy channels in your abdomen. On Day 100, you practice "Destiny," where the powers of yoga launch you into a more exciting future.
144pp, 10½x7½, illus. ... Paperback
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Godfrey Devereux
Fully illustrated with 100 black and white photographs, this book is a comprehensive guide to simple 15 minute yoga routines which can be done at any time of the day - essential for busy people with little time to exercise. As well as introducing the principles of yoga, its benefits and how it works, it also includes: - Energising Postures - Grounding Postures - Opening Postures - Rejuvenating Postures - Meditation. These postures are combined into easy 15 minute practices. The book also looks at the emotional and physical factors of the practice of yoga - relaxation, sex, pregnancy, diet, fitness, sleep, breath awareness.
192pp, 8.5x5.5, illus. ... Paperback
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Alice Christensen
Enables everyone, from the busiest executive to the elderly, to enjoy the rewards of yoga practice. This easy-to-understand large format book, clearly illustrated with photographs, will teach you powerful yoga breathing exercises, gentle yoga warm-ups, classic yoga asanas, deep relaxation and meditation that you can do in just twenty minutes. In addition to the basic 20 minute workout, there are also special workouts for women during pregnancy, PMS and menopause, for people in weight-loss programs and for athletes, for the elderly and those convalescing, and for people with particular physical ailments such as back and neck problems, high blood pressure and heart disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, and substance abuse.
144pp, 11x8½, illus. ... Paperback
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An exciting guide that takes yoga beyond the basics. This book combines more challenging moves and concepts that help you quickly build a strong body and creative mind. Alice Christensen provides complete instruction in important breathing and meditation techniques, and combines increasingly demanding sequences of yoga exercises with complementary concepts from yoga philosophy that will enhance creativity and self empowerment. Chapters focus on different aspects of physical and mental growth, including energy, strength, flexibility, focus and steadiness, while emphasising that each aspect is like a spoke in a wheel - providing essential support for the whole. Finally, with a series of questionnaires, assessing habits, tendencies and lifestyle, Christensen shows how to create individual yoga routines to help achieve specific personal goals.
192pp, 11x8½, illus.
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Designed for both the Yoga beginner and the seasoned practitioner who wants to maintain wellness by reducing stress and enhancing relaxation, concentration and balance. This indispensable guide takes you step by step from the most basic 30 minute a day routines through the individualised programmes and advanced techniques tailored to your specific needs. Other features include: Tips for using Yoga to improve diet and nutrition, how Yoga supports and supplements traditional methods of pain relief, techniques for enhancing fertility, special chapters on relieving symptoms of insomnia, migraines, back pain, arthritis, allergies, addiction, depression, PMS and weight management.
160pp, 11x8½, illus. Paperback
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Susi Hately Aldous
This book offers an easy and successful method to learn anatomy and its relationship to yoga in a way that helps prevent injuries. It is written by a certified yoga teacher with a diverse background in kinesiology, ergonomics, and physical rehabilitation. Anatomy and Asana answers many practical questions that are often asked by yoga students - about back pain, knee pain, and shoulder pain; about clenching the butt in back bends, and how to release the hamstrings or prevent hamstring tearing in forward bends. The book combines hands-on information with illuminating drawings, stories, and helpful tips to show you how to practice yoga with less pain. It informs without overwhelming the reader with too much information. The text is spiral bound for convenience and is divided into four parts: basics of anatomy; language of anatomy and movement; the eight essential principles of movement as they relate to yoga; and application of these principles to specific groups of yoga asanas: standing poses, back bends, forward bends, twists, and inversions. For each group, the book shows where there is a tendency for injury and what you can do to instill space in your body and thereby prevent injury from occurring.
"Susi’s presentation is simple to understand and very clear . . . This is a great book and will be helpful for teachers and serious students. I think Anatomy and Asana should be on required reading lists for yoga teacher training programs. It has tremendous value as an anatomy primer." - Margot Kitchen, Senior Iyengar Teacher.
90pp, 8.5x11, illus. ... Paperback
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David Coulter
This excellent reference book provides a clear, accurate and comprehensive guide to the anatomy and physiology of Hatha Yoga, from breathing to postures and relaxation. With photographic illustrations and useful anatomical diagrams, Coulter brings together the field of anatomy with the more metaphysical field of Hatha Yoga, providing a basis for scientific evidence of Yoga's power and efficacy in today's medicine. After discussion of basic premises regarding yoga practice - focusing attention, becoming aware of breath, moving into and out of postures, responding to pain - he discusses movement and posture, breathing, and abdominopelvic exercises, and then explores in detail the various standing, backbending, forward bending, twisting, and inverted postures, as well as relaxation and meditation. This book is invaluable for not only yoga pratitioners, but all bodywork and physical therapists.
624pp ... Hardback
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Chris Jarmey
The Anatomy of Yoga is a full colour illustrated reference book detailing the actions of skeletal muscles within over 100 yoga asanas. Each asana is drawn with the relevant muscle actions superimposed. Consequently, the main muscles that are contracting to hold different aspects of the asana are illustrated in red, whereas those muscles that are being lengthened are shown in blue. Secondary muscles involved in these actions are shown in lighter shades of red or blue respectively. Each fully labelled illustration is accompanied by clear text describing which muscle is performing which function. Although it is unnecessary to know this information from the point of view of perfecting any given yoga asana, the purpose of this book is to give detailed anatomical information for inclusion in the anatomy curriculum of a yoga teacher training course. As such, it is presented in a format that will make the study of musculo-skeletal anatomy more dynamic and specifically relevant to yoga. Chris Jarmey has been involved with yoga since the age of 15. He has practised and taught various methods of Hatha Yoga, including the methods commonly referred to as the Rishikesh series, Iyengar and Astanga. As a qualified physiotherapist with specialist experience in body mechanics, and as a practitioner of various Eastern bodywork therapies, and well-known author of some of the leading books on musculo-skeletal anatomy, Chris brings a unique perspective to the anatomy study requirements of the conscientious yoga teacher trainee.
224pp, 10.5x7.5, illus. ... ISBN 9781905367085 ... Paperback
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati
This renowned and comprehensive text by the founder of the Bihar School of Yoga and the Yoga Research Foundation could well be the only yoga book you will ever need. Designed as a complete textbook for persons learning and teaching all levels of basic yoga practices, it is now in its seventh edition. In addition to the four subjects of its title, it also includes an indexed section section on common ailments and the appropriate yoga asanas to practice for relief. Indian import.
482pp, 8.5x5.5, illus. Paperback
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Dharma Mitra
In 1974, the legendary "teacher of teachers" yogi Dharma Mittra photographed himself in 908 yoga postures. He printed each photo as an 8 x 10 and pasted them together to form a poster, creating the Ultimate Yoga Chart as a gift for his teacher, Swami Kailashananda (Yogi Gupta). Asanas collects 608 of those black-and-white photographs, each accompanied by the English name of the pose and the Sanskrit characters, brief commentary, and specific combinations for vinyasa, ashtanga, and Iyengar practice. Because it builds on basic postures, Asanas will appeal to students of any of the 100 yoga styles. In addition, specific sequences for each of the major styles of yoga; for beginning, intermediate, and advanced yoga students; as well as for particular health problems are also featured.
672pp, 5.1x4.5, illus. ... Paperback
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Vanda Scaravelli
Vanda Scaravelli is 83 years old, but she is still amazingly agile, fit and radiates vitality. Here is her secret. A radical new style of yoga, derived from a system used in ancient Egypt, that combines techniques for breathing, moving and living to create a harmonious, integrated lifestyle. She explains her style of yoga clearly, step-by-step and there are sumptuous photos throughout.
192pp, 8½x7½, illus. ... Paperback
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Gertrud Hirschi
Create the yoga program that bests suits your body and your needs. No more standing on your head while you turn the pages of a book. Instead, pick 8 illustrated, instructive cards and place them in front of you while you work each yoga position. Hirschi has developed this deck so that you can mix, arrange, and combine yoga exercises in new ways. An easy-to-use handbook describes the colour sequences and how to combine the yoga cards. The book also provides basic information on breathing and easy meditation techniques, as well as the use of mudra (hand position) in the exercises.
Book & 84 Cards
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Fiona Agombar
A guide to combating fatigue through yoga, this book covers the whole range of fatigue. The step-by-step programme can be practised anywhere, at any time, and is suitable for both beginner and those with a prior knowledge of yoga.
176pp, 8.25x8, illus. ... ISBN 1862043256 Paperback
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