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Yoga For Dummies
by Larry Payne Brenda Feuerstein Georg FeuersteinStretch, strengthen, and start your yoga journey with this approachable guide Yoga For Dummies teaches beginners the fundamentals of Yoga—correct posture, breathing techniques, meditation practices, and beyond. It’s also a helpful resource for established yogis who want to focus on foundations. Whoever you are, you’ll enjoy the proven mental and physical health benefits of this ancient practice. Improve cardiovascular health, lower blood pressure, increase your flexibility and balance, reduce stress, and more! Let Dummies help you get the most out of your yoga routine. This edition includes updated photos, new mindfulness meditations, new routines, and easy-to-follow instructions for mastering core yoga poses and building a regular practice. Discover the ideas and philosophy behind the ancient practice of Yoga Learn correct techniques and alignment for basic and more advanced poses Practice sequences of yoga poses for a full-body workout that builds strength and flexibility Reap the benefits of mindfulness meditation and yogic breathing exercisesYoga For Dummies provides beginner-friendly instruction and expert guidance so you can enjoy the health and peace of mind that yoga brings.
Yoga For Dummies
by Larry Payne Georg FeuersteinThe long-awaited update of the trusted yoga bookA decade since its initial publication, Yoga For Dummies, 2nd Edition has been updated and revised to include coverage of the newest concepts and practices that have emerged in the yoga community over the past ten years. Still maintaining its emphasis on safe approaches to the physical practice of yoga, Yoga For Dummies, 2nd Edition breaks down the concepts and poses, making yoga easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply for everyone. Yoga has been bringing health and peace of mind to millions of people for five millennia-and it can do the same for you. Turn to Yoga For Dummies, 2nd Edition to find out how to unlock your body's extraordinary potential, while strengthening your mind as well. Focuses on Hatha Yoga, which works primarily with the body through postures, breathing exercises, and other techniquesSpecialized yoga instructions for all ages, as well as partner yogaPracticing yoga during pregnancy, as well as yoga relief for women in mid-lifeUsing restorative yoga and yoga therapy to combat chronic aches and painsWhether you're a beginner or a yoga guru, Yoga For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you the tips and techniques you need to experience the health benefits of yoga as part of a complete wellness and exercise program.
Yoga For Dummies
by Larry Payne Georg FeuersteinSharing the benefits of yoga in a way that everyone can enjoy and understandPracticing yoga has many health benefits, including improving your overall fitness, flexibility, and strength. It has also been known to reduce heart rate and blood pressure. And if you're suffering from chronic lower back pain, yoga is a perfect choice for you. Yoga For Dummies, 3rd Edition will show you how to get up to speed on the fundamentals of Yoga, whether you're participating in a class, teaching a class, or practicing it on your own. This new edition features over 20% new and updated content plus 12 companion videos featuring the hottest and most popular poses. Inside, you will find:Do-it-yourself yoga programs for you to practiceThe latest techniques for breathing properlyPhotos on key poses that can improve front sides and backsidesNew coverage on yoga against the wall, the use of props in yoga, couples yoga, and moreIf you suffer from anxiety, depression, or chronic pain, yoga can be a wonderfully relaxing exercise for you. Whether you decide to persist in a traditional do-it-yourself yoga practice or experiment with the use of props in a new yoga routine, this book can help. Children, pregnant women, mid-lifers, and seniors can all enjoy the benefits of yoga simply explained in this comprehensive, fun guide.
Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression
by Bo ForbesEmotional balance is within your reach--when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, presents an integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. In this book, she offers some of her most important teachings and practices, including: * restorative yoga sequences designed to balance anxiety and lift depression * breath- and body-centered exercises to calm your mind and energize your body * simple ways to understand your emotional patterns * an overview of the three main obstacles to emotional well-being * five tools for building emotional balance Rooted in classical yoga yet supported by psychology and science, the techniques in this book will help you create progressive and lasting change.
Yoga for Everyone: 50 Poses For Every Type of Body
by Dianne BondyYoga can benefit every body, including yours! Discover how to take advantage of all yoga has to offer with this all-encompassing yoga guide. No matter who you are or what your abilities are, Yoga for Everyone includes a fabulous 50 poses proving something for everyone to love. From plus size yoga and pregnancy yoga, to yoga for the elderly or disabled, you can explore variations and modifications to much-loved yoga poses, from the comfort of your own home. Every exercise utilizes the essential elements of yoga to ensure you can gain all the physical and mental benefits, and will also allow you to perform all 10 sequences, which combine different poses into one singular experience and focus on specific health benefits each pose has on your body. Dive straight in to discover: - A visually illustrated yoga guide showcasing diversity in people and their mixed fitness abilities - 50 yoga exercises with a minimum of 3 modifications for varying body types - 10 sequences that combine the above-mentioned exercise- Expert information in Yoga and how to incorporate these exercises into everyday lifeFor years, books on yoga have asked readers to bend over backward (literally!) to conform to their physical demands. At DK, we believe it&’s time to change that! Why not allow for readers to demand that yoga conform to their individual needs instead? This is yoga for real people!Once you familiarise yourself with the yoga exercises that best suit you and your abilities, you&’ll begin to notice the benefits of yoga and positive changes they have on your body, whether it&’s your enhanced flexibility, your improved posture or your stronger core. What a rewarding experience for readers!Yoga for Everyone aims to teach readers that with a little modification, anyone can practice Yoga, perfect their poses and become stronger and more confident as you go. Whether you want to structure your sun salutation or demand more from your downward dog, this all-encompassing yoga book will be your one-stop guide to achieving perfection with each pose no matter your physical ability, and learn some top tips on yoga anatomy and yoga science along the way. A must-have volume for those who want to take up yoga but don&’t know where to begin, or simply those seeking to start a low-impact exercise, Yoga for Everyone can be tailored to your individual fitness needs, so you make the most out of your poses! Why not stretch yourself, literally, this New Year and try something new? Your mind, body and soul will thank you!
Yoga for Fibromyalgia
by Shoosh Lettick CrotzerFibromyalgia, which affects more women than men, is characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points -- places on the body where slight pressure causes pain. Although mainstream medicine has yet to devise a successful plan for treating fibromyalgia, yoga offers sensible strategies for managing, and sometimes overcoming, the pain. Written by a yoga teacher and suitable for both yoga novices and veterans, this book is grounded in simple movements, breathing techniques, and guided visualization and relaxation sessions. Readers learn to reduce stress and manage fibromyalgia through eight sequences: four for pain relief, one to diminish fatigue and improve sleep, and three for maintaining body awareness and general flexibility. The author's simple, supportive language and mixture of theory, practice, and the latest scientific data offer hope for one of the most challenging health conditions.
Yoga for Fibromyalgia: Move, Breathe, and Relax to Improve Your Quality of Life
by Shoosh Lettick CrotzerFibromyalgia is characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments, and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points (places on the body where slight pressure causes pain). Although mainstream medicine has yet to devise a successful plan for treating fibromyalgia, yoga offers sensible strategies for managing--and sometimes overcoming--the pain. Written by a yoga teacher and suitable for both yoga novices and veterans, this book is grounded in simple movements, breathing techniques, and guided visualization and relaxation sessions. Readers learn to reduce stress and manage fibromyalgia through eight sequences: four for pain relief, one to diminish fatigue and improve sleep, and three for maintaining body awareness and general flexibility. The author's simple, supportive language and mixture of theory, practice, and the latest scientific data offer hope for one of today's most challenging health conditions.
Yoga for Fibromyalgia
by Shoosh Lettick CrotzerFibromyalgia, which affects more women than men, is characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points - places on the body where slight pressure causes pain. Although mainstream medicine has yet to devise a successful plan for treating fibromyalgia, yoga offers sensible strategies for managing, and sometimes overcoming, the pain. Written by a yoga teacher and suitable for both yoga novices and veterans, this book is grounded in simple movements, breathing techniques, and guided visualization and relaxation sessions. Readers learn to reduce stress and manage fibromyalgia through eight sequences: four for pain relief, one to diminish fatigue and improve sleep, and three for maintaining body awareness and general flexibility. The author's simple, supportive language and mixture of theory, practice, and the latest scientific data offer hope for one of the most challenging health conditions.
Yoga for Flexibility: Poses and Practices for Improving Full-Body Mobility Over Time
by Adriana LeeFind your flexibility with yoga Yoga is a gentle way to improve your flexibility and incorporate more stretching into your life. Whether you want to ease pain, improve athletic performance, or simply maintain mobility as you age, this book will help you practice yoga for better overall health. Yoga 101—Understand the basics of yoga, including the role of breath, the purpose of warming up and cooling down, and why using your muscles is key to deeper stretching. Pose for flexibility—Ease yourself into the 40 yoga poses with detailed instructions, helpful illustrations, tips for modifying poses, and prop suggestions. Find your flow—Use the 17 yoga sequences and eight flexibility plans to help you reach your mobility objectives, improve your posture, reduce lower-back pain, and so much more. Loosen up and feel great with Yoga for Flexibility!
Yoga for Grief and Loss: Poses, Meditation, Devotion, Self-Reflection, Selfless Acts, Ritual
by Chinnamasta Stiles Karla HelbertJust as grief is an experience that affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually, yoga sustains and strengthens us in all of those same areas. This book demonstrates how the principles and practices of yoga can help relieve symptoms of grief allowing those who have experienced loss to move toward wholeness, peace, and feelings of connection with loved ones who have died. Exploring the six branches of yoga, the book shows how each branch can support us through grief in different ways whether it be the self-reflection of Jnana Yoga, the spiritual devotion of Bhakti Yoga, the meditation of Raja Yoga, or the physical postures of Hatha Yoga. We are shown how to begin and sustain a personal practice, both on and off the yoga mat, which helps us to cope with and move through grief on multiple levels. Expressive and experiential exercises are included to help explore each of the branches of yoga and find ways to put the tenets of each branch into real life practice.
Yoga for Health
by Richard HittlemanThis is more than a Yoga book, more than an exercise book, more than a nutrition guide, more than a cookbook. It is all three. And it presents the total way of life by America's foremost yoga instructor.
Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being
by Baxter Bell Nina ZolotowThe definitive resource on how to use yoga to foster your physical, mental, and emotional health for a lifetime.Everyone would like to age with as much strength and grace as possible and now numerous studies confirm what many yoga practitioners have known for a long time: yoga practice has a remarkable impact on physical and mental health—and spiritual well-being—as you grow older. Yoga for Healthy Aging is the definitive resource on how to use yoga to foster your physical, mental, and emotional health for a lifetime. Baxter Bell, MD, and Nina Zolotow, respected yoga teachers and authors of the popular “Yoga for Healthy Aging” blog, explain how yoga can address concerns related to strength, flexibility, balance, agility, cardiovascular health, brain health, and stress management, among other issues. They offer a safe, real-world yoga program to suit your particular needs, which includes poses, breathing practices, meditation, and yoga philosophy. Their program was developed in consultation with scientific and medical experts on aging, and allow you to focus on maintaining overall physical health and/or addressing target problem areas. Yoga for Healthy Aging is a yoga toolbox that will set you up for a lifetime of emotional and spiritual well-being.
Yoga for Healthy Feet
by Donald MoyerIn Yoga for Healthy Feet, Donald Moyer shares his insights into working with the feet and ankles gained through forty years of teaching yoga. The book includes: * anatomy and architecture of the feet, as understood from a yogic perspective * principles for aligning and balancing the feet * suggestions for addressing common problems, such as foot cramps, sprained ankles, hammer toes, bunions, and plantar fasciitis * descriptions of 25 poses that most concern the feet, with an emphasis on standing poses and sitting poses * use of props such as blocks, straps, and wedges to support the feet and alleviate discomfort * practice sequences for developing awareness, straightening your toes, strengthening your arches, improving your balance, and supporting your ankles
Yoga for Healthy Knees
by Sandy BlaineDrawing on her expertise as a yoga teacher who has used yoga to recover from knee pain and to keep her knees healthy, Sandy Blaine presents a comprehensive yoga program to help you understand common knee problems that cause pain and limit mobility establish safety guidelines to help you get started use props,such as blankets and towels, to support your body and your mind practice poses for pain prevention and rehabilitation move in your everyday life, whether you are an athlete or sedentary
Yoga for Healthy Knees
by Sandy BlaineDrawing on her expertise as a yoga teacher who has used yoga to recover from knee pain and to keep her knees healthy, Sandy Blaine presents a comprehensive yoga program to help youunderstand common knee problems that cause pain and limit mobilityestablish safety guidelines to help you get starteduse props,such as blankets and towels, to support your body and your mindpractice poses for pain prevention and rehabilitationmove in your everyday life, whether you are an athlete or sedentary
Yoga for Holistic Healing: Poses & Sequences for Pain and Stress Relief
by Bonnie GoldenRelieve stress, aches, and pains with healing yoga sequences Whether you want to address a specific injury, alleviate general soreness and stiffness, or simply take good care of your body and mind, this guide offers 10 easy and approachable sequences for relieving pain and stress so you can get back to feeling and functioning your best. Tailor your yoga healing practice to your needs with poses and sequences that focus on specific areas of your body, like your neck, back, hips, and legs. You'll find practical pose modifications based on injury, health condition, and flexibility level, plus helpful pointers for avoiding injury and getting the most out of each pose. This exploration of yoga therapy includes: A simple introduction—Explore an easy-to-understand guide that includes the most common forms, why it's used for healing, the role of yogic breathing, and much more. Tips for success—Get suggestions for successfully establishing a practice, like regularly changing your selection of poses and sequences to focus on both upper- and lower-body strength and flexibility. Guides to pinpoint your pain—Anatomical images help you better customize your practice to target your personal aches and pains. Heal yourself holistically with 10 simple sequences designed to ease your mind and body.
Yoga For Kids: Simple First Steps in Yoga and Mindfulness (Mindfulness for Kids)
by Susannah HoffmanTeach your kids about yoga and mindfulness with this mindful yoga activity book. Yoga activities are a great way to teach children about relaxation, meditation, and peace--while having fun at the same time.This book is packed with yoga activities for kids and mindful games. Kids can stretch into tree pose, bend into butterfly pose, learn how to make a mindfulness jar, and find out why and how we should stretch through a series of fun yoga poses and sequences.With more than 50 poses and activities, Yoga for Kids has everything you need to know about yoga for children. Children are guided through each pose, to make sure they achieve maximum fun and mindfulness in their yoga practice. Parents are given notes on each pose, to let them know what benefits it brings and how to stay safe.Yoga for kids shows that supporting a child's positive mental health doesn't need to be expensive, time-consuming, or difficult. Poses and activities help children to de-stress, focus, and get moving while having fun.
Yoga for Kids
by Lorena V. Pajalunga Anna ForlatiA little boy begins taking yoga lessons at the zoo, where he learns that he can mimic the animals there with simple yoga poses. When he returns home after his lessons, he practices with his cat, Nino. With an illustration of each animal pose and a description of how to do it, this enchanting book makes the perfect instruction guide for even the smallest yogi.
Yoga for Life
by Susan K. Reed Colleen Saidman Yee Rodney YeeFrom a rebellious young woman with a dangerous heroin habit to a globe-trotting fashion model to "First Lady of Yoga" (The New York Times), Colleen Saidman Yee tells the remarkable story of how she found herself through the healing power of yoga--and then inspired others to do the same.I've learned how to extract the beauty of an ordinary day. I've learned that the best high exists in the joy--or the sadness--of the present moment. Yoga allows me to surf the ripples and sit with the mud, while catching glimpses of the clarity of my home at the bottom of the lake: my true self. The very first time Saidman Yee took a yoga class, she left feeling inexplicably different--something inside had shifted. She felt alive--so alive that yoga became the center of her life, helping her come to terms with her insecurities and find her true identity and voice. From learning to cope with a frightening seizure disorder to navigating marriages and divorces to becoming a mother, finding the right life partner, and grieving a beloved parent, Saidman Yee has been through it all--and has found that yoga holds the answers to life's greatest challenges. Approachable, sympathetic, funny, and candid, Saidman Yee shares personal anecdotes along with her compassionate insights and practical instructions for applying yoga to everyday issues and anxieties. Specific yoga sequences accompany each chapter and address everything from hormonal mood swings to detoxing, depression, stress, and increased confidence and energy. Step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate her signature flow of poses so you can follow them effortlessly. Yoga for Life offers techniques to bring awareness to every part of your physical and spiritual being, allowing you to feel truly alive and to embody the peace of the present moment.
Yoga for Little Kids: Simple Poses to Encourage Calm & Well-Being
by Nicole KoleshisHelp toddlers practice calm and balance with easy yoga poses Even little kids can enjoy the benefits that yoga offers. This adorably illustrated book features 20 simple poses and sequences with clever descriptions that are easy for kids to follow, whether they're doing yoga by themselves or with help from an adult. Each pose is designed to help kids learn how to channel their toddler energy into something healthy and relaxing. Explore a book of yoga for kids that is: Easy to follow—Simple instructions and pictures make it easy to guide toddlers through the poses and sequences in the book. Connected to wellness—Each new pose is tied to a different aspect of physical and mental health like sleeping soundly, staying flexible, or practicing calm. Built on body awareness—Show toddlers the physical and emotional benefits of yoga as they gain awareness of their own bodies. Encourage self-soothing and help little ones develop lifelong skills with this fun and educational yoga book for kids.
Yoga for Meditators
by Charlotte BellCharlotte Bell, author of Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life, has blended the practices of yoga and meditation since 1986. In her new book, Yoga for Meditators, she writes, "Asana practice, by its very nature, is about preparing the body for meditation. So a book on yoga for meditators may seem redundant. All yoga is for meditators, after all. Still, there are poses that I have found to be optimal in addressing the specific physical challenges that arise during meditation, and it is in this spirit that I offer the practices in this book. " Divided into four parts, the book offers practices that are designed for beginning and seasoned practitioners: * Taking a Seat: Steady and Comfortable -- addresses the most common physical issues that can cause discomfort during sitting in meditation. * Yoga Poses for Sitting Meditation -- outlines asanas to guide you to a more easeful practice. Whether you practice vipassana, Zen, Transcendental, kriya, or any other kind of sitting meditation, these poses will help you collect the mind, awaken the spine, relax the base, soften the shoulders, and quiet the body-mind. * Practicing Yoga -- uses the asanas from part two to create sequences for calming agitation, increasing energy, opening the hips, relieving stress, easing the lower back, and during the moon cycle. * Alternate Meditation Postures -- discusses the other traditional meditation positions -- walking, standing, and lying -- with ways to settle into each. "The silent, peaceful mind is our birthright; it lives inside us all," Charlotte writes. "Our minds and bodies are interwoven. When the body is at ease, the mind has a much easier time settling into silence. May your asana and meditation practices uncover the peace that already lives within. "
Yoga for Mental Health
by Heather Mason Kelly BirchYoga is a comprehensive mind-body practice that is particularly effective for self-regulation, mood management, fostering resilience, and promotion of wellbeing. Inherently, yoga is a system for improving mental health and alleviating suffering at the deepest levels. Consequently, yoga's potential as a key component of integrative and complementary mental health is now being recognized internationally. This book serves as a reference, but also as a bridge between yoga therapy and healthcare, helping to add to the process of growing integration. It provides a professional resource for mental health professionals interested in the potential for yoga interventions that facilitate the therapeutic process, and who want to learn ways in which yoga can catalyze and deepen this process across a broad spectrum of mental health approaches. Similarly for yoga professionals with a focus on mental health and wellbeing who want to expand their understanding of how yoga relates to mental health approaches and their knowledge of best practices.The format is designed for consistency and ease of reading. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the yogic viewpoint of mental health and wellbeing, and the psychological and neurological rationale for yoga's usage in mental health conditions. Each subsequent chapter is organized into a clinical overview of mental health conditions, followed by sections on current research and the rationale for incorporating yoga into the treatment of the condition, recommended yoga practices, and future directions.
Yoga for Osteoporosis: The Complete Guide
by Loren Fishman Ellen SaltonstallA comprehensive, user-friendly medical yoga program designed for the management and prevention of osteoporosis, with more than four hundred illustrations. Osteoporosis leads to painful fractures due to loss of bone mass; yoga strengthens bones without endangering joints: it stands to reason that yoga is the perfect therapy for osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans suffer from low bone mass, and osteoporosis is responsible for more than 1.5 million fractures annually. Drugs and surgeries can alleviate pain, but study after study has shown that exercise is the best treatment, specifically low-impact, bone-strengthening exercises--hence, yoga. In this comprehensive and thoroughly illustrated guide, Loren Fishman and Ellen Saltonstall, who between them have seven decades of clinical experience, help readers understand osteoporosis and give a spectrum of exercises for beginners and experts. Classical yoga poses, as well as physiologically sound adapted poses, are presented with easy-to-follow instructions and photographs. The authors welcome readers of all ages and levels of experience into the healing and strengthening practice of yoga.
Yoga for Osteoporosis: The Complete Guide (Completely Revised and Updated)
by Loren FishmanA renowned physician’s comprehensive and user-friendly yoga program designed to assist in the management and prevention of osteoporosis, with more than 350 illustrations. Forty-four million Americans suffer from low bone mass, and osteoporosis is responsible for more than 1.5 million fractures annually. Drugs and surgeries can alleviate pain, but study after study has shown that exercise is the best treatment, specifically low-impact, bone-strengthening exercises. Yoga strengthens bones without endangering joints: it stands to reason that yoga is the perfect therapy for osteoporosis. In this comprehensive and thoroughly illustrated guide, Loren Fishman, MD, an experienced clinician, helps readers understand osteoporosis and give a spectrum of exercises for beginners and experts.
Yoga for Pain Relief: A New Approach to an Ancient Practice
by Nmt Lee AlbertDo you suffer from Painful muscular conditions that hold you back -- on and off the mat? Yoga for Pain Relief shows you how to identify the specific muscle imbalances that cause YOUR pain and create a safe yoga practice to rebalance YOUR body. * Understand how your current yoga practice and lifestyle may be creating pain. * Learn how to practice yoga safely and achief superior results. * Design your own practice to aligh your neuromuscular system and achieve a pain-free body. * Learn to use three tools -- asana practice, pranayama, and meditation -- for powerful benefits. * Take Charge of your own path to health and well-being