Basic Yoga for Everybody: 84 Cards With Accompanying Handbook (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "A deck of yoga cards can entice us to mix, arrange, and combine yoga exercises in new ways..." (more)
Key Phrases: push breastbone, straighten upper body, change leg position, Assume the Meditation, Diamond Posture-straighten (more...)

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Product Description

This kit of 84 yoga cards and an illustrated 80-page handbook enables you to create the yoga programme that best suits your body and your needs. With these cards, you can "deal" yourself a series of movements, and mix, combine and arrange your yoga exercises any way you wish to suit your level, knowledge and skill.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 71 pages
• Publisher: Weiser Books (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578631033
• ISBN-13: 978-1578631032
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #154,257 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars yoga cards are a good idea, ...but not these, April 3, 2000

By A Customer

What a great idea! So, I bought the cards and opened the nicely marketed package to find hard to understand illustrations and non-descript type. This product could be helpful for the ultimate beginner, but I would not even recommend it for them. I was very disappointed with the content of the cards and the intangibility of the text. What was the purpose and where is the teaching?

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, January 8, 2002

By A Customer

I read the little book it came with, which I did like, but the cards I did not. Very good idea, but the illistrations are hard to understand. And the directions don't coincide with the pictures. I am going to try Tim Clark's yoga cards, "create your own yoga program."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Make up your own rules to use the cards, March 20, 2000

By A Customer

84 cards, each one illustrating an asana (posture), are classified by color and number. For example, the "2" orange cards are side bends, and the "4" greens are back bends. The slim book that accompanies the asana cards instructs the user to select one card from each category in order to design a series. However, this instruction is contradicted a few pages later by a "rule" that says to perform forward bends ("5" blue) after back bends, twists, and side bends. The cards also provide alternate postures, usually involving more movement while in the posture. This was somewhat different than I am used to. (Maybe this is a German thing? ) The chapters in the bok on breathing exercises and mudras (hand positions) are clear and helpful.