Nischala Joy Devi
Stress is now considered the foremost contributor to poor health and a major factor in causing heart disease, cancer, and a myriad of chronic and acute diseases. This book will make yoga a fundamental part of your quest for stress-free living. Nischala Joy Devi, a pioneer in the field of alternative healing and a renowned yoga expert, has spent years helping people realize the healthful and stress-controlling benefits of yoga. In 1982 she developed yoga-based retreats for Dr. Michael Lerner's now famous Commonweal Cancer Help Program. That same year Dr. Dean Ornish asked her to create a program of yoga practices for patients suffering from heart disease. Yoga's contribution to the success of both programs has been astounding. Devi shares her years of experience working with the healthful benefits of yoga, teaching visualizations, breathwork, and meditation, as well as providing the classic steps and illustrated instructions for yoga's physical poses. The Healing Path of Yoga uses timeless Indian-based yoga techniques and philosophy, along with Devi's lifestyle-altering regimen, to create one extraordinary program with the power to rejuvenate and heal. The Healing Path of Yoga presents the key to preventing disease and stress in healthy people.
256pp, 9¼x7½, illus. ... Paperback
Swami Ambikananda Saraswati
Healing Yoga is the first fully illustrated book to outline the connection between yoga and the chakras, the body's vital energy centers where our spiritual and physical well-being dovetail. Practicing this form of yoga, according to the author, maximizes the benefits of restoring balance and harmony and maintaining vitality. Detailed in full-color photos are the asanas, breathwork, mudras, visualizations, and mantras which connect to each chakra. These color photographs throughout the book make the yoga positions easy to follow and understand. Healing Yoga also includes a section on yoga for specific ailments, including migraines, high blood pressure, and depression. The author, a highly regarded Hindu monk, has been teaching yoga for more than twenty-five years.
144pp, 11x8½, illus. ... Paperback
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Mira Mehta
From the internationally known, best-selling author of Yoga: The Iyengar Way comes a unique and inspiring new book which explains the beneficial effects of Yoga through the principles of Ayurveda, combining the two traditional Indian approaches to health and healing. By identifying your Ayurvedic body type, you can use Yoga postures (asana) to balance your body's energies and maximise well-being. With fully illustrated yoga programmes, Yoga and Ayurveda provides step-by-step instructions for postures and relaxation methods to alleviate everything from back pain, headaches and digestive problems to stress and fatigue.
228pp, 10.5x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
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Eleanor Criswell
A manual for practising yoga and a scientifically argued treatise on the correlations between yoga practices and neurophysiological change. The author has taught yoga psychology at Sonoma State University for 20 years. "One of the best books dealing with the physical aspects of yoga that I have read." Michael Murphy, co-founder Esalen Institute.
208pp, 8½x5½, illus. Paperback
Lynne Robinson & Howard Napper
Lynne Robinson has brought Joesph Pilates' teachings to modern exercisers in nine previous Body Control Pilates books - producing clear and accessible guides with a reputation for safe exercise that really does transform your body. Now, with highly-respected GMTV yoga teacher Howard Napper, two of the world's most effective exercise movements, Pilates and yoga, come together to inspire one another. The emphasis of these exercises is on retraining your body to give you benefits in every area of your life. The varied programmes, designed to energize, sculpt and relax the body, are a great way to expand your routine if you already practice either Pilates or yoga, but also provide a sound introduction to a new way of exercising.
216pp, illus. ... Hardback
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Shamsher Prakash
Drawing on his extensive background of yoga study in India, Shashmer Prakash presents a series of yoga exercises with the emphasis on health maintenance and prevention of dis-ease. Photographs of the author illustrate the yoga postures and the accompanying explanatory text makes the process easy to apply to daily life. Shashmer Prakash is acknowledged as one of the greatest experts on yoga. He has lectured worldwide and currently teaches in the U.S.
Swami Rama
A set of simple stretching exercises that increase circulation and help improve overall flexibility. The exercises help to release accumulated tensions in the joints and glands, and are extremely beneficial to persons with arthritis and rheumatism. They are also an excellent preparation for the practice of Yoga.
85pp, 8½x5½, illus. Paperback
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Nicolai Bachman
Urdhva-Padmásana. Have you ever been bewildered in a yoga class by the terms the teacher uses? What is the deeper meaning of these terms? How can you benefit by knowing them? For passionate and curious yoga students, The Language of Yoga offers the definitive "A-Y" of asana names and Sanskrit terms (there is no "Z" in Sanskrit). This interactive book-and-2-CD set includes more than 200 asanas with illustrated yoga postures and 300 Sanskrit definitions. Nicolai Bachman teaches you how to read and pronounce these sacred sounds with precision, and guides you through seven yoga chants with exact rhythm, tone, and pronunciation - an indispensible reference guide for any serious student of yoga.
Book + 2 CDs ... ISBN 1591792819
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Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre
The "Learn in a Weekend" series is a unique concept for busy people who wish to learn an activity or a hobby in the shortest space of time. With the help of expert teachers you can tackle the techniques and master the skills of yoga simply and easily. Excellent information covers all aspects of yoga and there are special features on meditation, breathing and food. Clear and precise photographs guide you through each asana and each move is analyzed so that you can create perfect postures.
98pp, illus. Hardback
Adelheid Ohlig
The author has refined a system of yoga that is specific for restoring and maintaining female reproductive health. It brings together classical yoga and the callisthenics of Israeli Yoga teacher Aviva Steiner for female reproductive health, along with healing sequences, herbal teas, meditations, and dreams that will stimulate, inspire and nourish, that will awaken vitality and curiosity, and lead to healing of body and soul. Luna Yoga can help you to end fertility problems without hi-tech intervention, alleviate menstrual and menopausal distresses, increase sexual pleasure and heal gynecological illness, as well as lay the foundations for sound day-to-day health.
224pp, 7x5, illus. Paperback
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Waheguru S Khalsa
Written in plain English, this is a book for two kinds of readers. First, for the beginner who needs inside information on the power of touch, hygiene and the laws of healing. And second, for the seasoned therapist or chiropractor. It includes 35 never-before-seen hands-on techniques with 280 illustrations, including 19 Quicktouch treatments for accelerating healing, that take less than 8 minutes to complete. Learn how to boost the power of the immune system with simple hydrotherapy techniques, and how to bring energy to your hands with short warm up exercises.
242pp, 11x8½, illus. Paperback
Gertrud Hirschi
Mudras are yoga positions for your hands and fingers. They can be practiced sitting, lying down, standing, or walking. Gertrud Hirschi shows you how these techniques can prevent illness, relieve stress, and heal emotional problems.
240pp, 8x6¼, illus. ... Paperback
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