Every Woman's Yoga: How to Incorporate Strength, Flexibility, and Balance into Your Life [Paperback]

Jaime Stover Schmitt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 2002

Yoga truly is for every woman. Its therapeutic and healing powers are vast— its benefits range from strengthening and toning to stress and pain relief, from childbirth preparation to easing through the menopause transition. Every Woman's Yoga focuses on specific yoga practices that are most suitable for women. Whether you are already into yoga, or just getting started, this informative guide will help you nurture your mind, body, and soul.
Come discover how yoga can:
·Help reduce signs of aging and decrease stress
·Relieve the discomfort of pregnancy, menstruation, and menopause
·Build strength and promote flexibility to support bone health
·Support recovery from breast cancer treatment
·Ease incontinence, digestion, and elimination
·Reduce fatigue and depression
·Promote inner beauty, build confidence, and manage weight

Editorial Reviews

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"This practical guide, based on the time-honored wisdom of yoga philosophy, will inspire women to move toward wholeness, vitality, and balance in a gentle manner." — Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Ph.D., spiritual head, Himalayan Institute
"Grounded in the most authentic teachings of yoga and happily avoiding the bells and whistles of 'brand-name yogas,' this simple and elegant book will be a joy for the woman who works with it regularly." — Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., author of Radical Healing
"With firm moorings in traditional yoga, Every Woman's Yoga encompasses many of the lofty principles of classical yoga while being extremely practical and useful to every woman." — Srivatsa Ramaswami, author of Yoga for the Three Stages of Life
"From strengthening to relaxation to soul connection, Jaime has created a beautifully thorough book for all women at any stage of life." — Colette Crawford, R.N., director, Seattle Holistic Center
"Every Woman's Yoga is an excellent guidebook for women of all ages and cultures. Jaime Stover Schmitt has written a masterful work on the ancient, life-generating practice of yoga evoking the feminine spirit of healing and nurturance." — Swamini Mayatitananda (formerly Bri. Maya Tiwari), author of The Path of Practice

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Yoga truly is for every woman. Its therapeutic and healing powers are vast— its benefits range from strengthening and toning to stress and pain relief, from childbirth preparation to easing through the menopause transition. Every Woman's Yoga focuses on specific yoga practices that are most suitable for women. Whether you are already into yoga, or just getting started, this informative guide will help you nurture your mind, body, and soul.
Come discover how yoga can:
·Help reduce signs of aging and decrease stress
·Relieve the discomfort of pregnancy, menstruation, and menopause
·Build strength and promote flexibility to support bone health
·Support recovery from breast cancer treatment
·Ease incontinence, digestion, and elimination
·Reduce fatigue and depression
·Promote inner beauty, build confidence, and manage weight

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (October 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761537228
• ISBN-13: 978-0761537229
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #530,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book for Every Woman, December 7, 2002

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Sheela Porter Smith CNM, CRNP (Honesdale, PA. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Every Woman's Yoga: How to Incorporate Strength, Flexibility, and Balance into Your Life (Paperback)

EVERY WOMAN'S YOGA is a book written for Every woman...young...old...skinny...plump...rich...poor...of color...white..

As a nurse-midwife and nurse-practitioner in women's health, I have come to appreciate the beauty in each and Every Woman and also how the practice of yoga can enhance that inherent beauty. Since the completion of my training, 15 years ago, I have been waiting for a book I can offer to ALL women. I feel EVERY WOMAN'S YOGA is this book. It is a book for the woman accomplished in yoga as well as for the woman who thinks yog(urt) is something you eat for desert.

One of EVEWRY WOMAN'S YOGA's greatest features is that it takes you skillfuly step-by-step from where you currently are in your yoga practice toward greater accomplishiment. A basic posture is first introduced and then a more challenging or an easier variation is given, allowing a woman to adjust her practice daily and thus continually progress. The author also intertwines these progressive steps in flexibility with the breath...the ultimate link between the mind and the body.

Another great feature of EVERY WOMAN'S YOGA is the author's encouragement for the woman to create her own practice...gone are the days of sitting isolated in a classroom for hours at a time...from feeling you missed the ship if you didn't get in that morning practice. NOW are the days of incorportating the practice into the whole day..doing pranayam while out for a walk....the pelvic tilt while waiting for the bus...agni sara in the the lunch line. HELLO MODERN YOGINIS!!!

The most valuable asset, however, is the continual references the author makes to the deeper aspects of yoga philosophy and training. These teachings encourage the woman to explore challenges in her ongoing spiritual journey. So while on the surface, the book seems to be dedicated only to yoga postures, it is really leading a woman on a deeper path.

If you have not read this book, I whole heartedly encourage you to give yourself a treat for the holidays !!!(and the rest of your life).

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal, January 18, 2003

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Aileen Crow (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Every Woman's Yoga: How to Incorporate Strength, Flexibility, and Balance into Your Life (Paperback)

Jaime Stover Schmitt's EVERY WOMAN'S YOGA is a phenomenal achievement. Dr. Schmitt tells eerything worth knowing about yoga in a personal, kind, warm and engaging way. Even more than that, she guides the reader into the self healing world of spontaneous movement where the wisdom of the body becomes the inner teacher. No other book on yoga has done anything like that. This book is unique and self empowering.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best women's yoga book, October 31, 2002

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Felicia Marks (Yardley, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Every Woman's Yoga: How to Incorporate Strength, Flexibility, and Balance into Your Life (Paperback)

I love this book! I am not interested in seeing the way western marketing portrays women - obsessed with thinness, desperately seeking to retain a youthful appearance at all costs! This book by-passes all of that, and offers sound advice for women of ALL AGES AND BODY TYPES. There is a lot in here! If you want to study real yoga, not just the fad, this book has got what you are looking for. The author is funny, humble and caring, and she knows her subject.