OM Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice (Spiral-bound)

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Product Description

Too busy to attend yoga class but can’t be bothered to read the endless instructions in the latest yoga book? In OM Yoga: A Daily Practice, celebrated yoga instructor Cyndi Lee brings the rigors and rewards of yoga class to the home with a totally unique method of teaching. Instead of wordy directions and minimal pictures, each series of asanas is communicated entirely through easy-to-follow illustrations and streamlined instructions and tips. Designed in a practical, concealed Wire-O format that lays flat on the floor while being used, OM Yoga is organized in tabbed sections for each day of the week. Monday is devoted to the Sun Salutation to welcome the week’s start. Thursday’s practice focuses on sitting poses, when the week’s energy is dwindling. When joined together, each day’s recipe cultivates a yoga practice that is challenging, energizing, and restorative. Including sections on meditation, breathing, and do-it-yourself yoga “recipes” for all levels, OM Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice creates the possibility for a meaningful yoga practice in the privacy of the home.

About the Author

Cyndi Lee, director of the OM yoga center, is a practitioner of hatha yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, and has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Cyndi and the OM yoga center have been featured in Self, Fitness, Shape, New York Magazine, Yoga Journal, and on CNN and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. Cyndi currently writes a regular column in Shambhala Sun. She lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 128 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (June 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811835138
• ISBN-13: 978-0811835138
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #67,673 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly easy (but challenging) daily yoga, January 7, 2003

By	Lynne Wilson (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

I love this book! I take a weekly class, but this book gave me the tools to incorporate yoga into my daily schedule. The routines are short (15 minutes or so, though you can make them longer if you want to), there's variety so each day focuses on different challenges, and everything's well explained.

My favorite features are: 1. there's a single-glance spread of the day's poses (no flipping while you're doing the routine!) as well as detailed drawings/descriptions of each pose so you can check your form, 2. the spiral binding, which makes it easy to lie open flat and flip as needed, 3. there are 'variations' of the more difficult poses, so it truly can be used by beginners and more advanced practitioners, and 4. it isn't overly wordy - just practical and straightforward.

If you're interested in trying yoga out, take the occasional class, or are just looking for a new way to approach your practice, TRY THIS!!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step By Step Yoga, December 5, 2002

By	J. M. Zuurbier (Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Cyndi Lee has given those who practice yoga a practical and useful book, even for beginners. The book was written and illustrated by Cyndi, who explains easily the concepts of yoga and the easy to understand illustrations demonstrate the proper way to do each pose. The book is divided into 9 sections, by tabs. The Daily Warm Up, plus Daily Pratice guides for each day of the week, as well as a Recipes section which helps readers put together their own routines. The book also explains the proper way to sit and breathe, as well as the meaning of Om. Each day is a different day; Sunday (Restorative poses, they create a sense of relaxed awareness and teach us how to receive); Monday (Sun Salute, generates energy and creates heat in the body); Tuesday (Standing poses, create strength and develop correct posture); Wednesday (Balancing poses, teach harmony of effort and release inner and outer awareness); Thursday (Seated Poses, calming to the mind and rejuvenating to the organs); Friday (Back bends, encourage us to be brave and openhearted); and Saturday (Inversions, which rejuvenate the entire body/mind system). As well she goes into detail with meditation. To quote the book it says "The practice of yoga is not about trying to be different from who you are, but rather understanding that we all have many aspects and that we are vast enough to contain numerous emotions and qualities." This could not be more true. This is a wonderful book for any yoga fan, very helpful and useful.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars for Cyndi Lee, September 3, 2002

By	Carol H. "Proustian mess" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

Is your schedule awfully hectic but you still want to manage to stay fit and pliant? You crave spirituality but all that Sanskrit mumbo-jumbo seems too removed from your everyday concerns? Then this is the perfect no-nonsense yoga system to shoehorn into your busy agenda. Beyond the nifty presentation you will find amazingly intense (and yet positively short) routines that will do wonders for your posture and flexibility, and tips on how to combine them when you have more time (that ever dwindling commodity) available to you. The simple guidelines will positively seep into your psyche and boost your living quality as well. Whether you're fit or have rusted down the years, there's no way you'll miss any exercise. Besides, you will be happy to keep the book handy for its breathing and relaxation routines to wind down after a stressful day. You can do many things for others, but the time you spend devoting yourself to OM YOGA is the best gift you'll ever do to yourself, maybe the only one throughout a busy day. Five stars for Cyndi!