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 gynecologist and a yoga instructor, offer prescriptions for the transitions in women’s lives. They teach the health and stress-reduction benefits of breathin (more…)

From Scientific American

Here, the practice of yoga is directed toward the individual’s needs and goals.
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. . . a milestone in the transmission of yoga from the ancient masters to the modern world. — Bodhi Tree Book Review, Winter 1999 / Spring 2000A milestone in the transmission of yoga from the ancient masters to the modern world. — Bodhi Tree Book Review, Winter 2000 / (more…)

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 of poses, guidelines for home practice, yoga routines for other sports, including bicycling, skiing, swimming, tennis, and walking, a resource guide for (more…)

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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 of your life with restorative yoga, the supported poses and breathing practices that will help you heal (more…)

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 flying eagle pose, and the facing page reads, spreads his arms like a butterfly. While a butterfly is depicted rather than an eagle, the idea is conveyed (more…)

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“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, September 2006″Should, without a doubt, be in the yoga library of every teacher and serious student.” — Yoga J (more…)

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. Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., and Larry Payne, Ph.D., are internationally recognized yoga exp (more…)

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 their practice. In the first four chapters Roach provides a quick history of Heart Yoga and introduces the uniquely Tibetan Buddhist aspects of the pract (more…)

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.

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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.

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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 “blatantly aggressive” and altered to appeal to Western tastes, omitting such essential aspects as yoga philosophy, breathing techniques, correct s (more…)

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