Yoga For Wimps: Poses for The Flexibly Impaired [Paperback]

Miriam Austin (Author), Barry Kaplan (Photographer)

Book Description

Series: For Wimps | Publication Date: December 12, 1999

Crave yoga's benefits--but feel afraid to look "weird?" Think yoga requires you to look like a pretzel? Now there's a friendly, full-color, hand-holding, one-step-at-a-time, few-minutes-a-day way to get started. It meets you right where you are, with three different approaches to fit your needs. Instant Yoga gets you going immediately with 15 practice sessions for any time of the day, even when there's only a few minutes to spare. Run through a sequence and the workout's over! FixIts offer solutions to specific problems, such as a sore neck, back pain, those aching feet, or stress. In the Glossary, the author demonstrates every pose correctly, with instructions for improving technique. The changes you experience will amaze and delight you so much you'll never want to wimp out on your workout! The author lives in Lexington, VA. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806943394
• ISBN-13: 978-0806943398
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.8 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 23 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #55 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Stretching

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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars these old bones are gettin limber, October 2, 2000

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Richard E. Kurdt,SR. (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoga For Wimps: Poses for The Flexibly Impaired (Paperback)

I have been unable to touch my toes all of my life, "Yoga For Wimps." was recommended by a publication that I subscribe to. I have since been rewarded with a few aches,that have since led to my gaining flexibility where I thought there was not ever going to be any. This book has empowered me to work a lot harder at gaining something I never possessed to begin with, that being flexibility. As a 63 year old with Arthritis in my neck and spine Ms. Austin has given me insight into just how a few simple yet taxing exercises can be a very uplifting and invigorating. experience. If you possess the desire to feel better and are not afraid of a little challenge then this book will definitely give you the wherewithall to persevere your own personal goals,and I have just been getting started. IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!

54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A yoga book you will actually use!, April 21, 2000

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Jeremy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoga For Wimps: Poses for The Flexibly Impaired (Paperback)

If you are a motivated, but overstressed, time-crunched person...someone who knows you should exercise more, stretch more, take better care...this book is a blessing. It won't gather dust on your shelf next to the other books on yoga, stretching, meditation, etc.

The routines are easy to understand, easy to do, and modelled by regular folks, so you don't end up feeling like a total loser because you can't do the poses like the yoginis in other books.

To show you what you can strive for in terms of good technique, the author of the book models poses in a later chapter. But most of the book gives short, easy routines that can help you gain flexibility day by day, or treat acute problems in a hurry.

They broke a lot rules making this book. It doesn't look like most other yoga books. But the result is fresh and totally worthwhile. As a naturopathic doctor, this is one I will recommend to my patients who want to get into some healthier habits, a little bit at a time.

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars at last, a yoga book for me, April 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Yoga For Wimps: Poses for The Flexibly Impaired (Paperback)

I've been away from yoga for 5 years, but this is the book that brought me back. It's yoga for the rest of us, yoga that doesn't make you feel entirely inadequate, yoga that my middle-aged joints say yes to. And the pictures are a treat. Real believable people showing clearly how it's done.