The Illustrated Step-By-Step Guide to Yoga for Flexibility will help any yoga newcomer or veteran improve the flexibility of all of their limbs and back by learning yoga poses and stretches for the back, shoulders, hamstrings, and more. Over three dozen different postures and yogic practices are accompanied with photographs of instructors and explanations to make sure you\u2019re practicing yoga correctly.
\nThis guide is essential for yoga students who seek to increase their body\u2019s flexibility and become more limber.
\nContents:
\nChapter 1: The Science of Stretching
\nChapter 2: Developing Shoulder flexibility
\nChapter 3: Developing Back Flexibility
\nChapter 4: Developing Knee, Hip, and Groin Flexibility
\nChapter 5: Developing Hamstring Flexibility
\nChapter 6: Sitting Series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
*Includes step by step explanations for 36 poses and stretches, accompanied with pictures of each.
\nFor nearly a thousand years, people in the East have been practicing what was known as hatha yoga, “a kind of forced Yoga or abstract meditation\u201d, but in the West during the 20th century, it came to be known simply as yoga.
\nIn the last 50 years, yoga has become incredibly popular as a way to exercise both the mind and body. Yoga means \u201cunity\u201d or \u201coneness,\u201d and the word is derived from the Sanskrit word yuj, which means \u201cto join.\u201d In spiritual terms, this joining refers to the unity of the individual consciousnesses with the universal consciousness. In practical terms, it refers to balancing and harmonizing the mind, body, and spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[29],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n