Product Description: In 30 Essential Yoga Poses, Judith Lasater draws on her wealth of yoga practice and teaching experience, as well as her training as a physical therapist, to present this comprehensive guide for beginning students and their teachers. The author discusses yoga's ancient eightfold path and its relevance in today's world, and goes to the heart of yoga—the all-important student-teacher relationship. Thirty essential yoga poses (asana), their variations, and breathing practices (pranayama) are also provided, with guidance for the student practicing at home, and points for the classroom teacher. Sequences are presented with photographic charts for easy visual reference, and a "Mantra for Daily Practice" and glossary of anatomical terms and resources for further study are also included.

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Rodmell Press (November 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930485042
• ISBN-13: 978-1930485044
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
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30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers (Paperback)

Product Description: How to balance Yoga practice. As Yoga matures in the U.S., this is a new approach to balance physical and mental health, for serious students and beginners. All yoga forms emphasizing either muscle (Yang) or connective (Yin) tissue. Today, all popular Yoga forms are Yang--muscular. Yin Yoga is unknown, but vital, as a balanced Yoga practice has many benefits, including better preparation for meditation. Yin Yoga focuses upon connective tissue, which does not stretch or respond to brief stresses as muscle will, so Yin postures are held a long time, with the muscles relaxed. Acupuncture meridians are also in connective tissues and Yin Yoga is specifically designed to stimulate them.

Divided into two sections, the second part of the book deals with chakras, breathing exercises and meditation, and is • fully illustrated • with clear, concise descriptions of Yoga postures

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: White Cloud Press; 1 edition (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883991439
• ISBN-13: 978-1883991432
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 13 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,188 in Books

Yin Yoga (Paperback)

For thousands of years people have turned to Yoga to enhance their quality of life. Yoga gradually builds physical flexibility and strength, improves concentration, relieves stress, increases energy, and develops the ability to relax at will. Easy Does It® Yoga, a nationally recognized fitness program, adapts traditional Yoga techniques to make them safe and easy for people who may face physical limitations. But, although it is a gentler from of Yoga, it is just as effective as more strenuous fitness programs for getting and staying in shape.

Alice Christensen, founder, of the American Yoga Association, guides you through the program, showing you:

* The basics of Yoga exercising, breathing, and meditation with specific, easy-to-follow illustrations throughout

* Specific postures such as the Gentle Full Bend, the Easy Sun Pose, and the Elbow Twist to help you target your weaker spots and increase your overall flexibility

* The unique benefits of Yoga for alleviating chronic health conditions ranging from arthritis to depression

* A six-week program to get you started and to help you develop a basic understanding of essential movements

* Specially designed sequences to boost energy or bring calm, depending on your specific needs

* Strategies to incorporate the Yoga lifestyle into your daily routine, not only with exercise, but also with tips on creating a healthy diet and ways to develop a more peaceful, positive mental attitude

Regardless of your age or physical condition, The American Yoga Association's Easy Does It® Yoga will inspire you to awaken your body and mind and experience the well-being and fulfillment that Yoga brings.

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Fireside; Trade Paperback edition (November 18, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684848902
• ISBN-13: 978-0684848907
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 5 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #124,203 in Books

The American Yoga Association's Easy Does It Yoga : The Safe and Gentle Way to Health and Well-Being (Paperback)

Product Description: Completely restructured to focus more on the how-to components of yoga, this step-by-step guide replaces photos with all-new two-color line illustrations that not only show readers what the various yoga postures look like, but how to get in and out of them easily and painlessly. Non- intimidating and easy-to-follow exercises show readers just how fun and relaxing yoga can be.

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Alpha; 4 Ill Rev edition (May 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592574882
• ISBN-13: 978-1592574889
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #73,249 in Books

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga Illustrated, 4th Edition (Complete Idiot's Guide to) (Paperback)

Product Description: An introduction to the practice of Yin Yoga that emphasizes its meditative roots and provides balance to our modern, yang lifestyles

• Offers an alternative to the outwardly oriented yang-style yoga practices in use today

• Contains a deck of posture cards that assists users in designing a personalized practice and a 75-minute audio CD with a guided routine led by the author

Yin Yoga is known as the quiet yoga. Many of the most popular forms of yoga, such as Ashtanga and Power Yoga, are fundamentally yang in nature, based on rhythmic movements of the muscles and focused on the need for change and attainment. Yin Yoga, in contrast, does not concentrate on the muscles but on connective tissue and bones, the parts of our body that are closest to our core and critical to our physical well-being and range of motion. The postures are all practiced on the floor and each is held for a lengthy period, usually three to five minutes. This intense non-movement allows us to experience the poses in a deeper way that enables the muscles to relax, the nerves to calm, and the surrounding connective tissue to remain healthy and supple. This meditative approach is more akin to those found in the earliest Hatha Yoga traditions.

In The Yin Yoga Kit Biff Mithoefer presents 14 poses used in Yin Yoga and explains each posture’s benefits, including which chakras and meridians will be most positively affected. The individual posture cards included illustrate the poses, provide advanced and modified variations, and assist users in designing a personalized practice sequence. The 75-minute CD contains a sample guided routine narrated by the author, with each pose presented on a separate track so listeners can rearrange them or shorten the routine as needed.

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Healing Arts Press (July 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594771162
• ISBN-13: 978-1594771163
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #56,803 in Books

The Yin Yoga Kit: The Prabbctice of Quiet Power (Boxed Set) (Paperback)

Product Description: These techniques will not mention any religious ritual. No temple is needed, you are quite enough of a temple yourself. You are the lab; the whole experiment is to go on within you. This is not religion, this is science. No belief is needed. Only a daringness to experiment is enough; courage to experiment is enough.

• Hardcover: 1152 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (April 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312180586
• ISBN-13: 978-0312180584
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 7.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,057 in Books

The Book of Secrets: Keys to Love and Meditation (Hardcover)

Product Description: 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 for women are covered as well as recommended sequences for pregnancy and menstruation.

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Shambhala (December 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570624704
• ISBN-13: 978-1570624704
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 17 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,567 in Books

The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health: A Lifelong Guide to Wellness (Paperback)

Product Description: A highly regarded organization for yoga studies and practices, the Sivananda Yoga Center created the first edition of The Sivananda Companion to Yoga in 1983. Since its publication, it has sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide and has become a standard text for both yoga students and teachers.

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Fireside; 1st Fireside Ed edition (April 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684870002
• ISBN-13: 978-0684870007
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #29,177 in Books

The Sivananda Companion to Yoga: A Complete Guide to the Physical Postures, Breathing Exercises, Diet, Relaxation, and Meditation Techniques of Yoga (Paperback)

Product Description: Yoga is one of the fastest-growing fitness activities in the United States, and qualified yoga instructors are in high demand. Instructing Hatha Yoga describes the qualities and knowledge yoga instructors need in order to be competent and effective teachers. It covers all aspects of successful instruction:

• Detailed descriptions on how to teach 69 yoga asanas (postures), with more than 300 photos showing the postures

• Verbal and visual cues to use in teaching each posture

• Specific hands-on adjustments to help students achieve the desired posture

• Modifications for each posture and effective ways to work with students of different abilities in the same class

• Charts that identify body-segment kinematics and muscles used in individual postures

• A DVD that shows how to achieve the most accurate positions for a sampling of postures and the hands-on adjustments instructors can make to assist students

• Paperback: 337 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; Pap/DVD edition (September 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736052097
• ISBN-13: 978-0736052092
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,216 in Books

Instructing Hatha Yoga (Paperback)

Product Description: Yoga Beyond Belief offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection of valuable insights gleaned from a lifetime of exploration, practice, study, and teaching by one of America’s pioneering and leading teachers of yoga, the book assists readers in making sense of the many discordant claims and teaching techniques that currently exist in the yoga world, freeing readers to pursue their own individual paths of yoga and personal practice. This is an essential text and reference for all yoga practitioners.

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (January 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556436467
• ISBN-13: 978-1556436468
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,446 in Books

Yoga Beyond Belief: Insights to Awaken and Deepen Your Practice (Paperback)