Yoga at Your Wall: Stretch Your Body, Strengthen Your Soul, Support Your Practice [Paperback]

Stephanie Pappas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 13, 2009

Enrich your life, and your health using an ordinary wall to learn and practice yoga. Doing yoga at your wall gives you support, inspiration, and guidance. Whether you are beginner, intermediate, or advanced yoga student, this book offers an innovative and safe way to practice yoga. Your wall becomes your partner, your supporter, and your friend as you lean on it, align yourself with it, push off of it, and press into it. The wall not only helps you when you practice yoga, it adds another degree of challenge to your practice. When practicing yoga at your wall, you have a vertical reference point for orientation.

Author Stephanie Pappas offers more than just the instructions. For each yoga posture in the book you will discover: imagery for alignment, creative use of yoga props, suggestions for breathing, and ideas for exploring and deepening the postures.

With hundreds of photos, this user-friendly yoga book helps you cultivate:

- Strength and energy - Flexibility and expansion - Balance and steadiness - Restoration and relaxation - Playfulness and creativity in your practice and in your life - A dynamic daily yoga practice

When you leave the wall and go back to practicing yoga on the floor, you will have a whole new level of awareness of your postural alignment, and a different experience of your body. You may visit your yoga wall more often than you can imagine!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Stephanie (a.k.a. Stefani) Ann Pappas has been practicing and teaching yoga and meditation since 1992. She is the founder and director of the Devalila Yoga Teacher Training, a Registered 200 hour level training with the Yoga Alliance. Stephanie has certified over 175 teachers in North America. She is also a massage therapist, Interfaith Minister, belly dance teacher, and ESL teacher.

Stephanie Pappas was born in New York City in 1960 and grew up in central New Jersey. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, Douglass College. After graduating from college, she worked for 10 years as a trainer, technical writer, and technician in the telecommunications industry.

Stephanie began the study and practice of eastern philosophy at the age of 12 with the Taoist book of changes, the I Ching. She took her Buddhist refuge vows in 1982 with the Venerable Dawa Saambo from Tibet, and received various teachings from H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama and other renowned Tibetan Buddhist teachers.

From 1992-2002 she studied intensively with her teacher from Bangalore, India, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and was a teacher for the Art of Living Foundation and Prison SMART Foundation. During this time Stephanie was dedicated to the practice of Hatha Yoga, Sudarshan Kriya, and various yogic meditations which included long silent retreats.

Stephanie has co-authored 9 other books on yoga. Her first solo book for yoga teachers is called, Yoga Posture Adjustments and Assisting and has sold over 12,000 copies. It is also available on amazon.com

Stay tuned in 2010 for her newest book, Reflections of a Codependent Yogi.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (February 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 142517213X
• ISBN-13: 978-1425172138
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephanie (a.k.a. Stefani) Ann Pappas was born in New York City in 1960 and grew up in central New Jersey. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, Douglass College. After graduating from college, she worked for 10 years as a trainer, technical writer, and technician in the telecommunications industry.

Stephanie began the study and practice of eastern philosophy at the age of 12 with the Taoist book of changes, the I Ching. She took her Buddhist refuge vows in 1982 with the Venerable Dawa Saambo from Tibet, and received various teachings from H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama and other renowned Tibetan Buddhist teachers.

From 1992-2002 she studied intensively with her teacher from Bangalore, India, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and was a teacher for the Art of Living Foundation and Prison SMART Foundation. During this time Stephanie was dedicated to the practice of Hatha Yoga, Sudarshan Kriya, and various yogic meditations which included long silent retreats.

Stephanie is the founder and director of the Devalila Yoga Teacher Training, a registered 200 hour level training with the Yoga Alliance. Stephanie has certified over 160 teachers in North America, Mexico, and Europe.

Stephanie has co-authored 9 other books on yoga. Her first solo book for yoga teachers, "Yoga Posture Adjustments and Assisting" has sold over 10,000 copies. Her new book "Yoga At Your Wall" is available on amaazon.com

Her current work in progress is called, "Reflections of a Codependent Yogi."

Stephanie is also a massage therapist, interfaith minister, belly dance teacher, and ESL teacher.

Stephanie spends her time in Tulum, Mexico and central NJ where she writes books and teaches. Stephanie leads workshops and trainings worldwide.

Stephanie dedicates time and money to the fair treatment and rescue of animals.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Perspective for Your Practice, March 14, 2009

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Martha D. Humphreys "coachwrite" (Montana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoga at Your Wall: Stretch Your Body, Strengthen Your Soul, Support Your Practice (Paperback)

Yoga at Your Wall: Stretch Your Body, Strengthen Your Soul, Support Your Practice
Having practiced yoga off and on for over ten years I know I feel better after every focused stretch, pose, or class---so why don't I practice more often? The same reason you don't: unless we have a commitment to a class and the motivation to get there...it's too easy to ignore this benefit to our bodies, minds and sould. Besides, it can be boring by ourselves...Ms. Pappas' well illustrated, very informative book on adding the stability of the wall for support and inspiration is a must for every yogi's library. As a student, it will rejuvenate your practice between classes, as a teacher, it will introduce variation to your curriculum. Original, thought provoking and very well written, you will use it often. This is one book that will not be gathering dust on your book shelf!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YogaFamily.com Approved, July 11, 2009

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E. Abrams "yogafamily.com" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoga at Your Wall: Stretch Your Body, Strengthen Your Soul, Support Your Practice (Paperback)

Review:
YogaFamily.com is a fan of Stephanie Pappas as she continues to inspire students to look at their practice in different ways - both physical and spiritually. Yoga at Your Wall presents a new way to play with your practice while giving you a refreshing perspective towards it. By entering into a posture with different tools, it supports you both mentally and physically in your practice. Your body learns new ways to deepen itself and breaks up habitual muscular memory; while your mind is open to change, new perspective, and the ability to to break up the mental restraints we put upon our self.
Yoga at Your Wall is thoroughly written, has clear and abundant photos, and is inspiring to be creative with your practice. If you have felt stagnant in your practice like you have "hit a wall," Yoga at Your Wall will help make a shift to break it down mentally and physically, and then return to your mat with new tools such as body awareness, mental remembrance of the support of the wall, and more trust in yourself to go deeper into your practice.

In addition to the 70+ postures spotlight in Yoga at Your Wall (plus equally more variations of them), the chapters in the book group the postures in categories such as: Strength and Energy, Balance and Steadiness, Flexibility and Expansion and Restoration and Relaxation.
Each posture is consistently organizes with the following categories explained:descriptive photos showing the different stages of a posture;
photos of places in the pose that needs a more visual description with a close up view for proper alignment;instructions and tips for getting into the pose;how to exit the pose;inspiring quotes;tips;suggestion for visual focus and breathing;Home play - ways of deepening the posture more; Benefits and Precautions of the pose.

Yoga at Your Wall is offers a new way to play, explore and deepen your practice. [...]

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Wall Yoga, May 2, 2009

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Paris - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoga at Your Wall: Stretch Your Body, Strengthen Your Soul, Support Your Practice (Paperback)

Another hugely impressive book from the fabulous Ms Pappas. I have been a fan for a long time - since I discovered her equally good 'Yoga Postures Adjustments and Assisting'. Have never thought of doing yoga at a wall before - it is surprisingly challenging as I learned going through this book. As always the author is wonderfully affirming and supportive as you weave your way through this inspirational book. Really well laid out and very well written. I defy anyone not to enjoy trying out these poses. A must read!