Spectacular photographs and precise instructions allow you to harness the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of the ancient art of yoga. With the help of an experienced yoga teacher and dancer, beginners and those who wish to improve their technique will be able to take control of their lives and health and achieve and maintain a state of calmness, emotional stability, and physical fitness. Begin by focusing on the six basic elements of yoga: posture, breathing, relaxation, meditation, diet, and a life of right action, and then warm up to ensure that your mind and body are properly prepared for exercise. More than 60 postures are presented with detailed descriptions of their benefits. Relieve premenstrual symptoms with the Butterfly. Aid digestion and alleviate sciatica problems with the Shooting Bow. Strengthen and tone abdominal and back muscles with the Cat Stretch, and much more.
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This review is from: The Yoga Handbook: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide (Paperback)
This is an Americanization of a South African Yoga book. The focus of this book is on application. Information is provided in a way to immediately useful. While there is some information on meditation, chakras... the focus is poses. The basic structure of the sections covering poses is very similar to the coverage in a yoga journal article on an advanced pose. Each pose gets about 3-6 intermediate forms which progressively move you into the pose with a photograph and 1 paragraph of textual description. This is followed by a large photo of the final position. In addition almost every pose has variants on both less and more difficult forms. The net result is that most poses in the beginning corpus are covered well yet the book is not overly long nor is the coverage skimpy. Further what is very nice is that Noa rates the poses in difficulty from 1-4 (including the variants). I can strongly recommend as a first yoga book, or someone looking to fill holes in their knowledge of basic poses.
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This book was great for my teacher training! it was easy to read, not too wordy and had great full color pictures, plus it had a lot of variety about the different poses, like variations and I liked that the poses were divided by chakras (color coded). I felt like it could have listed more benefits and more about the breathing on a lot of the postures, but.... all in a very good.
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