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The Yoga Practice Guide, Dynamic Sequencing for Home Practice and Teachers

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This is a truly beautiful book, from the illustrations to the beautiful excerpts and inspirational quotes to the heavier stock and convenient spiral binding. It's a perfect home practice companion with several useful sequences from beginning to advanced. The themed sequences do an amazing job of clearly illustrating how you can build up to a back bending or hip opening apex pose. It does exactly as it says on the tin, provides dynamic sequencing for home practice. What you will not receive is insight into alignment, how to get into poses, etc. So while a beautiful book, if you're an absolute beginner, I'd recommend going to a few classes with a qualified instructor to ensure you are moving safely in and out of your yoga poses.

Wow! This is the book for which Yoga practicioners on all levels have been waiting.. not only are the positions laid out VERY clearly visually but there is excellent sequencing..the exercises are easy to follow and the size and format of the book make them totally accessible. I'm impressed. The book, though simple in design, tells exactly what you need to know. It's 'in your face' yoga..good work Mr. Bowditch!

This is the book the yoga community has been waiting for! This is the book that will help you build your practice at home. There are hundreds of yoga books full of poses but none that teach sequencing ... UNTIL NOW! I recommend this book to all students and teachers of yoga. Although Bruce is an Anusara certified Yogi he has created a gift for yogis of all styles. You will never put this book on the shelf!

This is a delightfully inspiring, technically excellent, deep resource for your own yoga practice and an essential resource for yoga teachers. If you have ever stalled out in your own yoga asana practice, or felt limited in your teaching, especially when it comes to sequencing, this is the book for you! I love the way it lies flat, making it user friendly when I am on the mat. The sequences are powerful and imaginative, thanks Bruce for giving me a boost to the next level of practice and teaching, my students are loving it!

This book is a timeless, endless resource.

See the sequences as the body moves through them,
illustrated with great clarity and simplicity.

Bruce has taken the time to create a simple, masterful
resource for practitioners and teachers alike.

Bruce Bowditch has created an amazing resource- that I use on a weekly basis for inspiration for my class sequencing. Composed with so much care and authenticity- this truly is a "gift" to the yoga community.

I find this guide an excellent resource for my home practice and for teaching. The sequences outlined are well-planned and easy to follow and the illustrations and Sankrit names for postures help to give a thorough understanding of each pose. I highly recommend this text for home practitioners looking to mix things up, as well as, for teachers looking for some new sequences to share with their students.

I just got this book and can already tell it will be very useful to me. It's a wonderfully crafted set of sequences you can lay flat on the floor or prop up, and just follow the series of hand-drawn pictures of each pose. There are sequences for beginning, intermediate, and advanced practitioners, as well as some of the standard vinyasas, pranayama, and even some chair sequences to do while at the office. Sequences are labeled for their emphasis (hip openers, back bends, etc.), and there are also some modular subsequences you can string together for a complete session. A visual glossary at the end gives you all the individual poses used with their Sanskrit names (so you don't need the companion "Yoga Asana Index" unless you want more accurate pronunciations or English translations of the names).

The emphasis is on the practical: If you don't have the knowledge or time to craft your own sequence, you just flip open this book and get started. No space is spent on explaining why the poses are sequenced as they are, but seeing them presented graphically rather than being absorbed in the action, you can glean the patterns of warmup, peak energy poses, and cooldown, which will help you as you begin to do more of your own sequences or even improvise. For more thorough sequence design I expect you'll want some deeper training or a book dedicated to such.

The book's construction is very nice. The pages are light cardstock rather than paper, and the whole thing is ring-bound to lay flat. The cover is of the same light cardstock as the pages, which means the book needs care in handling.

In contrast to the companion "Yoga Asana Index", this book only gives Sanskrit names for poses, and fails to use the diacritics that the other book uses to clarify pronunciation. Since you'll be following the pictures more than reading the names while practicing a sequence, this is a minor flaw.

This book in amazing. I am so grateful that Bruce Bowditch, an incredible yoga practitioner and Anusara instructor, has created and offers this book to us. I love how much deeper my practice is when studying with Anusara instructors and since I am rarely able to attend the few classes that are offered locally, this book provides approximately 20 asana sequences of various levels of difficulty and focus, as well as some pranayama, a restorative sequence, and a chair sequence, outlined by one inch detailed figures and Sanskrit names. This book is of course meant as a supplement to real class experiences, but for practicing yoga students of all levels. I highly recommend it, Thank you Mr. Bowditch!

I agree with all the positive reviews here. I've had this guide for a few months and it stays open near my mat for home practice sessions.

It's surprising just how few yoga books (and yoga teachers) provide advice on how to plan a yoga practice session at home. Many yoga books provide tremendous detail on individual asanas, but virtually nothing on how to plan a sequence of asanas for a practice session!

The Yoga Practice Guide provides a number of concise and clearly illustrated sequences - from beginner to advanced levels. Bruce makes it clear that these illustrated sequences are starting points and that you can modify the sequences as you need.

While the sequences correlate quite well with Anusara Yoga classes, they are also good sequences for most any type of hatha yoga practice.

There is also an excellent glossary of all the asanas in the last half of the book that actually flows the types of asanas together i.e., all the standing asanas, then all the inverted asanas, etc.

I use this guide frequently enough that I actually photocopied the pages related to my skill level, and then I use a pencil to annotate and delete or insert asanas as I see fit. It's too good of a guide to mess up the original pages!

Bruce, if you decide to produce any more practice guides, I will certainly buy them!