Yoga: The Poetry of the Body: A 50-Card Practice Deck [Cards]

Rodney Yee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 30, 2003

From today's most popular instructor and author of the bestselling Yoga: The Poetry of the Body comes an all new training tool -Yoga: The Poetry of the Body 50-Card Practice Deck. These beautiful cards feature portable, informative, and stunning yoga instructions. Each of the 50 cards features photographs and instructions with tips on alignment and breathing, as well as poetic insights into the subtle energies of the pose. Cards are sequenced to create a real yoga class, if users follow from beginning to end they will have completed a class, as Rodney would teach in his yoga studio. Rodney Yee's yoga cards offer a complete Yoga workout without books or videos, and are perfect for yoga students at any skill level.

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"Yee has inspired untold numbers of yoga recruits to unroll their mats and meet themselves." --Yoga Journal

About the Author

Rodney Yee, one of America's most popular yoga instructors, has been teaching yoga for close to two decades. He is the bestselling author of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and has been featured on Oprah, in Time, People and USA Today. He has sold over 2 million instructional videos and is featured in the two top-selling lines of yoga videos: the Yoga Journal Practice series videos and the Gaiam yoga videos. Rodney Yee is the Co-Director of the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, CA, where he teaches public classes and a 1 1/2-year teaching training program. He lives with his family in Piedmont, California.

Product Details

• Cards: 50 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (May 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312316275
• ISBN-13: 978-0312316273
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,967 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool for your yoga practice, January 17, 2004

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Caldermobile (Huntsville, Alabama USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoga: The Poetry of the Body: A 50-Card Practice Deck (Cards)

Rodney Yee's yoga card set is wonderful. Each of the cards (well made on thick, coated cardstock) has a wonderful, clear photograph of Mr. Yee in the pose, the name of the pose, recommended time for each pose, and a description/reminder of what one should be looking for in the pose. (Part of the "Feel" listing for Happy Baby Pose: "Keep your feet directly over your knees, and let them be awake and vibrant. Keep your chest broad...") The back of the card has a mediative quote. The cards are numbered and placed in order of groupings: preparatory, standing, twists, back bends, seated, forward bends, and restorative. The deck also includes suggested sequence cards for continuing your practice.

The deck has been perfect for travel.

While these cards are wonderful and easy enough for a beginner, I would encourage ANYONE beginning their yoga practice to seek out a class in their area. Taking classes with a qualified instructor (even if only a few) will help you greatly in your practice. Body awareness is a key to long, injury-free practice, and that 'understanding' is impossible to get from a dvd, book or card set. No matter what you age, size, or level of ability I encourage you to try yoga. It will change your life. Good Luck!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool for practice, March 6, 2004

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This review is from: Yoga: The Poetry of the Body: A 50-Card Practice Deck (Cards)

This deck has helped me stay with more yoga practice more than any other tool;more than videos, books, tapes. I can design a practice that is very short for busy days or an intensive practice when I have the time. I can also spend as much time on one asana as I like before moving on, a limitation of video tapes. I used this deck when I recently traveled to a third world country where electronic equipment was not available. The cards concept is a wonderful idea for any practice.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has been a nice tool as a yoga teacher, June 8, 2008

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Teri Ciocco "rckwmn8" (Grand Junction, CO) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Yoga: The Poetry of the Body: A 50-Card Practice Deck (Cards)

I love this deck. The descriptive saying were a nice tool to incorporate into my language during my classes to help my student feel a pose in a different way. Rodney's form is beautiful and inspirational. This deck was useful at the beginning in outlining my class, and memorizing the sanskrit names. I still like to thumb through to deck before class to remind me of a pose that I haven't taught in a while. I've now graduated to doing his videos to work on my own practice.