Amazon.com Review “Simple practices to help you stay healthy, calm, and strong, and to carry you forward in a natural progression toward wisdom, real beauty, and the strength of realized grace that belongs to all women,” promise Machelle M. Seibel, M.D., and Hari Kaur Khalsa, authors of A Woman’s Book of Yoga. The authors, a [...]
From Scientific American Here, the practice of yoga is directed toward the individual’s needs and goals. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review . . . a milestone in the transmission of yoga from the ancient masters to the modern world. — Bodhi Tree Book Review, Winter [...]
The Runner’s Yoga Book is an ideal companion for the weekend or professional athlete, for the reader who wants to stretch and relax, and for the developing yoga student who wants to establish a home practice. Drawing on over thirty years of teaching and personal practice, author Jean Couch offers precise instruction in all types [...]
Review Relax & Renew is the first to devote itself entirely to restorative yoga, providing a series of yoga postures designed to relieve chronic stress. Exercise programs are introduced with a series of insights and stipulations which instructs on yoga techniques for everything from insomnia to basic relaxation. — Midwest Book Review Experience the rest [...]
From School Library Journal PreS–Toddlers can move along with the playful illustrations and simple poses introduced in this book. Each colorful spread shows a child in a yoga pose on one side, while the opposing page pictures the animal the position is supposed to reflect. For example, the first spread shows, Yoga Baby in the [...]
Review “A must for all teachers and serious students of yoga.” — Fit Yoga, August 2006″Nicholai Bachman has done a great service to the yoga community.” — Yoga International, March 2005″Sanskrit scholar Nicholai Bachman gives us the opportunity to connect with yoga’s spiritual roots through translations and a comprehensive dictionary.” — Body + Soul magazine, [...]
Amazon.com Review Yoga for Dummies proves that this 5,000-year-old Indian discipline can be all things to all people–the athlete striving for more-limber limbs, the stressed-out professional needing mental calm, peace, and clarity; the pregnant mom-to-be looking to keep herself toned and her emotions balanced, the spiritual seeker wanting to access the higher planes of consciousness. [...]
Amazon.com Review Geshe Michael Roach’s The Tibetan Book of Yoga is an excellent second yoga book for someone who is interested in Buddhism and is looking to deepen his or her yoga practice. The slim volume–based on Heart Yoga from the Gelukpa tradition of the Dalai Lamas–delves more into the philosophy behind the poses than [...]
Since 1960, more than 1 million people have used this classic guide to tap the incredible power of yoga. The attractive new edition, in a new size, will appeal to a wide audience of contemporary yoga students. From the Inside Flap Since 1960, more than 1 million people have used this classic guide to tap [...]
From Publishers Weekly Having studied for more than three decades with renowned yoga master T. Krishnamacharya, and taught for more than two decades, Ramaswami attempts to offer a more complete picture of the practices developed ages ago to heal the body, train the mind and cultivate inner peace. He calls much of Western yoga practice [...]
Amazon.com Review Yoga for the hands–sounds too good to be true. Do it at the office, on an airplane, lying in bed. Seasoned yoga teacher Gertrud Hirschi has used these hand postures to ease asthma, relieve flu symptoms, think more effectively, relieve tension, even have a bowel movement. The possibilities she attributes to these ancient [...]
From Booklist Sparrowe, former editor of Yoga Journal, has teamed up with one of the most preeminent yoga instructors in the country, Walden, to put together a comprehensive guide to yoga for women. The book contains numerous yoga sequences and photos and is designed to be a lifelong reference guide for female practitioners. Basic sequences [...]
This is the first comprehensive guide for yoga teachers and yoga students providing all the details on how to adjust or assist someone while they are performing a yoga posture. With yoga’s recent worldwide popularity, this book is invaluable to millions who teach or practice yoga. The book goes beyond just the physical aspects of [...]
Review “Hatha Yoga Illustrated is a complete and practical introduction to the physical practice of yoga that serves as a fantastic starting point on the road to both physical and emotional wellness.”Baron BaptistePioneering instructor of Power Vinyasa YogaAuthor of Journey Into Power “Hatha Yoga Illustrated makes the theory and practice of hatha and Anusara yoga [...]
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Western-trained internist and Yoga Journal medical editor McCall has practiced Iyengar yoga for a decade. In 2002, he traveled to India, where most scientific research on yoga’s medical benefits has been conducted. The results of that visit and McCall’s subsequent study of yoga therapy and ayurveda (India’s ancient medical system) [...]
