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Provides simple instruction and demonstrative illustrations to introduce a technique that combines hatha yoga and meditation in order to slow the aging process, decrease stress, promote creativity, and improve mental and physical health. … More >>

Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness

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This is the most user-friendly yoga book available! It contins the entire Primary and Intermediate series of Ashtanga Yoga with three options for every asana. It is spiral bound to easily remain open while practicing. It contains over 650 photos with clear instructions and commentary. It is a great book for all levels of practitioners to enjoy and teachers will find it to be an invaluable tool for teaching their students…. More >>

Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual: An Illustrated Guide to Personal Practice

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The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga–yoga adapted to the needs of the individual. A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher. This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya that capture the essence of his teachings. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Elements of Krishnamacharya’s teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Krishnamacharya’s son T. K. V. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya’s yoga. Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya’s fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual’s changing needs to achieve the m… More >>

The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice

Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient: A Guide to Practice provides state-of-the-art practices and key principles of nutrition support through evidence-based medicine.

Following a review of the metabolic alterations that occur during critical illness, this book discusses the nutrient requirements of critically ill patients as well as their needs for specialized nutrients. It covers issues surrounding the delivery of nutrition support to the critically ill, outlines the unique nutritional needs throughout the lifecycle, and describes the special considerations for the diseases and complications that can occur in critically ill patients. The text concludes with professional issues, such as ethical and economic considerations, as well as an extensive list of current references, protocols, tables, figures, and case studies

This practical reference is written by a distinguished panel of authors who continue to commit their careers to the nutritional support of crit… More >>

Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient: A Guide to Practice

Yoga props, videos, designer clothing, weight-loss programs – author Tom Pilarzyk believes that something essential has been lost as the 5,000-year-old spiritual practice has morphed into a $3 billion pop culture phenomenon. This book argues persuasively for a return to yoga’s roots: maintaining daily intention, welcoming difficulties that test resolve, keeping the heart open, making positive shifts when feeling victimized or exhausted, and remembering to breathe deeply and witness the spontaneous play of activity all around. Yoga Beyond Fitness offers a bridge to yoga’s serious meaning for the millions who practice it for fitness but want more. It provides an accessible overview of yoga’s diverse teachings and teachers and is full of colorful stories of ordinary people whose lives have been bettered by embracing yoga’s underlying promise. The book even includes fun tests that help peg readers’ practicing preferences and a study guide and a listing of national yoga centers to help expa… More >>

Yoga Beyond Fitness: Getting More than Exercise from an Ancient Spiritual Practice

This illustrated guide to stretching as part of sporting activity discusses the priciples behind training and how body movement can contribute to correct posture. It details specific exercises, how to chart the progress made, and the role of flexibility in sport and therapy…. More >>

Flexibility: Principles & Practice

A quick practical guide for making decisions about patient’s nutritional care by providing a framework for developing and implementing a nutritional plan of care. Presents information needed to provide optimal nutritional care for individuals who are not able to maintain their nutritional status through normal eating. Addresses nutritional support needs of patients across the life cycle in the home and hospital settings. Features useful information on drug-nutrient interactions and lab value interpretations, and features nutrition education tips throughout the text…. More >>

Practical Aspects of Nutrition Support: An Advanced Practice Guide

In most health professions, there is a clear progression from beginning practitioner to seasoned expert. While such a progression may exist in dietetics, it is not clearly articulated. This ground-breaking reference is designed for clinical dietitians with an interest in elevating their level of practice. Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy Practice describes a model of advanced practice in medical nutrition therapy and illustrates how dietitians can become advanced-level practitioners through education and training…. More >>

Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy Practice

Flashcard Secrets for the ACE Group Fitness Instructor Exam study system uses repetitive methods of study to teach you how to break apart and quickly solve difficult test questions on the American Council on Exercise Group Fitness Instructor Exam. Study after study has shown that spaced repetition is the most effective form of learning, and nothing beats flashcards when it comes to making repetitive learning fun and fast. Our flashcards enable you to study small, digestible bits of information that are easy to learn and give you exposure to the different question types and concepts. Flashcard Secrets for the ACE Group Fitness Instructor Exam covers: Cardio-respiratory Conditioning, Exercise Programming, Muscular Strength and Endurance, Progression and Intensity, Medical Conditions, Pregnant and Postpartum Women, Modifications for Senior Citizens, Proper Posture, Body Mass Index Test, Bioelectrical Impedance, Target Heart Rate, Dyspnea Scale, The Talk Test Method, Basic Standing Stretch… More >>

Flashcard Secrets for the ACE Group Fitness Instructor Exam: ACE Test Practice Questions & Review for the American Council on Exercise Group Fitness Instructor Exam

This guide to nutritional assessment and intervention in wellness–and in a wide variety of diseases and disorders from infancy through adulthood–documents current research behind the nutrition practices presented, and assists health care practitioners in providing appropriate, individualized care…. More >>

Mayo Clinic Diet Manual: A Handbook of Nutrition Practice