Yoga Cards: Create Your Own Yoga Program/Cards

by Tim Clark (Contributor), Loretta McArthur

A wonderful tool to help you practice yoga at home. Pre-defined classes and well-written instructions with illustrations make this set exceptionally easy to use. I've tried audio and video tapes, but this was the ONLY thing that helped me practice yoga at home without an instructor.

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Yoga Cards: The Flexible Alternative to Books and Tapes

by Timothy Clark, Tim Clark, Loretta McArthur

Don’t get caught in the rote patterns of yoga books and tapes—shuffle your routine with this classic yoga card deck. Whether you’re a beginner or an accomplished practitioner, YOGA CARDS will help you develop routines appropriate to your individual needs. YOGA CARDS include an introduction to the techniques of yoga, plus clear illustrations and instructions for getting into, sustaining, and getting out of 57 postures. The cards are symbol-coded, allowing you to group similar cards together to create logical and fluid posture sets, and include duration guidelines, benefits of each pose, and specific programs for stress relief, pain release, strength, and flexibility. Take your yoga program wherever you go with this ultimate portable workout deck.

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Yoga for Beginners

by Mark Ansari, Liz Lark

A unique hands-free, eye-level, step by step guide * Beginner and intermediate programs * Full range of sequences * Breathing Exercises * Meditation techniques * Modified programs for those less able

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Yoga For Equestrians

by Linda Benedik, Veronica Wirth

Whether one rides Western reining patterns, dressage, or the trails, this new program of yoga for equestrians will help every rider build a stronger mind-body connection for improved performance. Yoga integrated with horsemanship produces desirable rider qualities, such as enhanced awareness, flexibility, balance, and correct breathing in rhythm with movement. The book begins with an introduction to the practice of yoga and the roles of meditation and visualization. The authors then move on to basic yoga positions (asanas) and breathing exercises (pranayama), followed by exercise routines that focus on body areas that are key to improving the rider¹s seat and communication with the horse. All exercises are demonstrated with detailed photos, and there are warm-up and cool-down routines that can easily be performed at home, at the barn, or at shows. The book concludes with some specially designed routines for mounted yoga. Linda Benedik is the director of Harmony with Horses Balanced Riding Program and a long-time yoga student. Veronica Wirth is founder of Integrated Yoga* and rides for pleasure.

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Yoga for Pregnancy: Safe and Gentle Stretches

by Sandra Jordan

Yoga, with its emphasis on body awareness, breathing, and relaxation, is helping growing numbers of pregnant women adjust to the physical and mental demands of labor, birth, and motherhood. Provided here are 92 Iyengar poses carefully chosen as being safe and effective during and after pregnancy.

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Yoga for Wimps: Poses for the Flexibly Impaired

by Miriam Austin, Barry Kaplan (Photographer)

Crave yoga's benefits--but feel afraid to look "weird?" Think yoga requires you to look like a pretzel? Now there's a friendly, full-color, hand-holding, one-step-at-a-time, few-minutes-a-day way to get started. It meets you right where you are, with three different approaches to fit your needs. Instant Yoga gets you going immediately with 15 practice sessions for any time of the day, even when there's only a few minutes to spare. Run through a sequence and the workout's over! FixIts offer solutions to specific problems, such as a sore neck, back pain, those aching feet, or stress. In the Glossary, the author demonstrates every pose correctly, with instructions for improving technique. The changes you experience will amaze and delight you so much you'll never want to wimp out on your workout!

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Yoga for Women

by Shakta Kaur Khalsa, Russell Sadur (Photographer)

Women from every stage of life will learn the healing wisdom of yoga health secrets as passed down through the generations. Featuring exercises that target women's health issues and alleviate the symptoms of menopause, Yoga For Women shows how this ancient practice provides the solution to staying flexible, healthy, and youthful at any age. Packed with more than 500 full-color photographs, healing remedies, tips, and inspiring true stories, this is a practical manual that nurtures and empowers women at every stage of their lives.

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Yoga for Your Type : An Ayurvedic Approach to Your Asana Practice

by Dr. David Frawley, Sandra Summerfield Kozak

This is the first book that details how to choose Yoga asanas most apporpriate for your unique body type according to the five thousand year old system of Ayurvedic medicine.

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Yoga Journal's Yoga Basics: The Essential Beginner's Guide to Yoga for a Lifetime of Health and Fitn

by Mara Carrico, Yoga Journal (Editor)

Carrico, the choreographer of Jane Fonda's yoga video, and the staff of the well-respected Yoga Journal have produced both a good introduction to the history of yoga and helpful instruction in a range of basic poses. The book describes nine primary varieties of Hatha Yoga for the general reader and suggests ways of finding a good teacher. The beginner's postures are described in thorough fashion, with photos of correct and incorrect techniques. The book also includes recommended sets of postures, depending on the time of day, and advice on meditation. A class or video may still provide the best introduction to yoga, but this book is both an excellent complement to other instruction and a good reference source in itself.

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Yoga Mala

by Sri K. Jois (Author), Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga yoga by the living master of this increasingly popular discipline There is a yoga boom in America, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois is at the heart of it. One of the great yoga figures of our time, Jois brought Ashtanga yoga to the West a quarter of a century ago and has been the driving force behind its worldwide dissemination. Based on flowing, energetic movement, Ashtanga and the many forms of vinyasa yoga that grow directly out of it--have become the most widespread and influential styles of practice in the United States today. Mala means "garland" in Sanskrit, and Yoga Mala--a "garland of yoga practice"--is Jois's distillation of Ashtanga. He first outlines the ethical principles and philosophy underlying the discipline and explains its important terms and concepts. Next he guides the reader through Ashtanga's versions of the Sun Salutation and its subsequent sequence of forty-two asanas, or poses, precisely describing how to execute each position and what benefits each provides. Brought into English by Eddie Stern, a student of Jois's for twelve years and director of the Patanjali Yoga Shala in New York City, Yoga Mala will be an indispensable handbook for students and teachers of yoga for years to come.

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Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

by Donna Farhi

The first book to unify all yoga styles and bring the understanding of yoga's mind-body connection clearly into the mainstream. In this comprehensive guide, Donna Farhi, the internationally renowned yoga instructor and author of The Breathing Book, brings her holistic approach to this centuries-old Eastern practice. Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit is the first book to present the vital essence of hatha yoga from a perspective that will enable Westerners to experience authentic yoga practice directly. Providing detailed instructions, practice tips, and inspiration for students at all levels, Donna Farhi works with universal movement principles that may be applied to all styles of yoga, including ashtanga, Iyengar, Kripalu, and viniyoga. At the heart of this book are seventy-five fully illustrated asanas, or postures, with descriptions of their executions and benefits. On every page Farhi's teaching gifts are evident, and through clear, easy-to-follow explanations you'll discover *the core movement principles that underlie all yoga practice *the philosophical precepts that are the foundation of a balanced life *the postures arranged into related groups--including standing postures, sitting postures, arm balances, and breathing practices--for quick and easy reference *home practice sessions outlined for the beginning and advanced student

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Yoga Rx: A Step by Step Program to Promote Health, Wellness, and Healing for Common Ailments

by Larry Payne, Richard Usatine, Merry Aronson (Editor), Rachelle Gardner (Editor)

East meets West as an assistant dean at the UCLA School of Medecine and a celebrity Yoga instructor show how to use ancient Yoga postures for treating dozens of common ailments. Yoga has never been hotter in America, and now its benefits are being recognized far beyond the arenas of enlightenment and body sculpting. Yoga RX distills an array of postures into an easy-to-use regimen for anyone seeking relief for anything from back pain to the common cold. Written by a highly respected professor of medecine and a renowned Yoga teacher and Yoga therapist whose clients include Warren Beatty, Ted Danson, and Dolly Parton, Yoga RX offers a holistic program based on the authors' research into the science of Yoga. Helping readers enhance their chances of disease prevention through increased circulation, strength, flexibility, and concentration, this accessible handbook also covers specific Yoga therapies for treating illnesses such as: • Arthritis • Headaches • PMS • Insomnia • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome In the tradition of The Pilates Body, this step-by-step, illustrated handbook is the ultimate prescription for healing body, mind, and soul.

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Yoga: The Iyengar Way

by Silva Mehta, Mira Mehta, Shyam Mehta

A comprehensive, practical, and authoritative guide to the method developed by Iyengar. 100 key postures with detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs. This is our most recently published yoga book and has quickly become a backlist bestseller.

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Yoga: The Path To Holistic Health

by B. K. S. Iyengar

One of Iyengar's (The Illustrated Light on Yoga) goals is to connect the practice of yoga's asanas ("postures") with its spiritual side. The opening section of the book deals with the spiritual side of yoga and its importance in bringing the body into balance with itself and the environment. However, the simplistic discussion lacks the depth of Donna Farhi's Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit (LJ 4/15/00). The strength of Iyengar's book is its photographs and texts, which illustrate and explain how to perform yoga postures correctly and safely. The author shows the postures being performed with props that help beginners slowly develop the necessary flexibility and strength. The book also contains a section on yoga therapy, illustrating different series of postures aimed at alleviating and preventing certain physical ailments and stress. The last section is a 20-week course that slowly fosters and develops muscle tone, flexibility, and inner peace. Since the postures are listed using transliterations of their Hindi names, the most difficult aspect of this course is stopping to look up each posture. This text, which is aimed mainly at beginners, can be adapted to fit the needs of most intermediate and advanced yoga practitioners. Recommended for public libraries and health sciences libraries that support alternative medicine courses.

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Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness

by Erich Schiffmann

Provides simple instruction and demonstrative illustrations to introduce a technique that combines hatha yoga and meditation in order to slow the aging process, decrease stress, promote creativity, and improve mental and physical health.

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