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Many of us face daily demands and overwhelming difficulties that cause seemingly uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear. When you feel this way, it’s healing to calm yourself and to reclaim your sense of innate goodness and well-being. For centuries, yoga has offered a quiet retreat away from life’s pressures and has enabled us to reconnect to our inner wisdom and peace. Regular yoga practice has been proven to calm stress, enhance concentration, and reduce the symptoms of anxiety. This book offers meditations, mindfulness practices, self-inquiry exercises, and yoga poses that soothe anxious feelings and develop mental clarity. Before long, you’ll free yourself from the anxiety and fears that hold you back and learn to live with a more open heart and resilient mind. Just as yoga helps you feel more at home in your body, the mental and physical practices in Yoga for Anxiety help you increase your sense of contentment in life. Yoga for Anxiety is… More >>
Yoga for Anxiety: Meditations and Practices for Calming the Body and Mind
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A fully illustrated, step-by-step guide to achieve wellness through Viniyoga
Mainstream America is finally catching on to what Eastern countries have known for thousands of years–that yoga is not only a great, low-impact way to increase flexibility and reduce stress, it is also useful in healing any number of afflictions, from common aches and pains to chronic diseases and emotional setbacks. In this easy to follow guide for practitioners at all levels, America’s leading teacher of Viniyoga emphasizes the physical as well as the spiritual components of healing through yoga. Beginning with a general introduction, he then includes case studies and specific yoga sequences designed to address individual ailments. Best of all, each step of each posture in a sequence is clearly illustrated with its own photograph. The exercises in this book are truly transformative and certain to help those searching for alternatives to mainstream medicine and those look… More >>
Yoga for Wellness: Healing with the Timeless Teachings of Viniyoga
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Written for serious practitioners and teachers who want to use yoga to bring complete balance to the body, and understand, in more detail, how the asanas affect the structure of the body. You will learn “body reading” to determine what posture reveals about muscular imbalances. Stiles shares his understanding of anatomy and kinesiology, joint mobility and muscle strength, and teaches a series of joint-freeing exercises that can also be used to strengthen muscles. 123 illustrations. Index…. More >>
Structural Yoga Therapy: Adapting to the Individual
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The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali is a major work on the practice of yoga and meditation. Through these ancient aphorisms you will learn how to control your mind and achieve inner peace and freedom. Although these methods were taught over 2,000 years ago, they are as alive and effective today as they have ever been. The 2007 edition has been reset and now has an extensive index for reference…. More >>
How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Pantanjali
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Craving yoga’s benefits but unable to perform even the simplest postures? Think yoga is only for rubber-limbed supermodels?
If your yoga practice is giving you more stress than stress relief, Cool Yoga Tricks is the answer to your prayers.
Although it seems like everyone from Madonna to your eighty-three-year-old Uncle Teddy is practicing yoga, most of us are unable to do even the simplest classic yoga poses without undue stress and strain. Now in this clear, understandable, easy-to-follow book, Miriam Austin offers alternative yoga routines that help you reap the greatest rewards from your yoga practice, and she reveals shortcuts to help you perform yoga like a pro.
Using everyday items, such as chairs, walls, and blankets, Miriam Austin shows how those of us with normal flexibility limitations can experience the very real benefits of yoga—without dislocating our joints, overstretching our muscles, or giving up in frustration. Sh… More >>
Cool Yoga Tricks
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“Over an extraordinary thirty year history, Kripalu Center has been a pioneer in combining authentic yoga with a contemporary Western lifestyle.” —John Abbott, President, Yoga Journal
From the senior teachers of the world-renowned Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health–the largest yoga and retreat center in North America–comes this comprehensive guide to the unique and influential Kripalu method, which emphasizes individual growth over outward perfection of form, making it accessible to people of all ages, fitness levels, and body types.
KRIPALU YOGA
A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat
Beginning with step-by-step “experiences” that teach essential body and breath awareness, Kripalu Yoga features fully illustrated routines for beginners and intermediate students , including Kripalu’s easy-to-follow “press point” instructions. For advanced students, there is a broad menu of additional poses to increase strength… More >>
Kripalu Yoga: A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat
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A unique hands-free, eye-level, step by step guide Beginner and intermediate programs Full range of sequences Breathing Exercises Meditation techniques Modified programs for those less able… More >>
Yoga for Beginners
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The innovative YogaKids(r) program offers more than just poses: It blends traditional yoga and its benefits with new theories of multiple learning styles in a comprehensive, imaginative, and playful approach to education. The best-selling YogaKids(r) video (a Parent’s Choice award winner) has been helping kids-and their parents-discover the pleasures and benefits of yoga for more than seven years. With this book, Marsha Wenig’s fun and child-friendly course is expanded and enriched for parents, teachers, and caregivers. YogaKids(r) presents more than 50 carefully selected poses, in clear, easy-to-follow, color photographs, paired with special activities that stimulate children’s verbal, spatial, and artistic skills. The book includes special yoga routines to cover a multitude of common situations, such as calming down, getting ready for a test, or even riding in a car, as well as help for children with special needs. Parents learn the physical and … More >>
YogaKids: Educating the Whole Child Through Yoga
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This is the first book that details how to choose Yoga asanas (Yoga poses) mostappropriate for your unique body type according to the five thousand year oldsystem of Ayurvedic medicine. These two systems of healing and energymanagement have long been regarded as effective methods of relieving stress,creating personal balance, eliminating ailments, and relieving chronic pain.Yoga for Your Type presents a fundamental understanding of both Yoga andAyurveda and provides the information needed for you to balance your energy andfeel healthy…. More >>
Yoga for your Type: An Ayurvedic Approach to Your Asana Practice
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Based on master yogi Baron Baptiste’s popular Yoga Bootcamp workout programs, this interactive kit focuses on tapping into the healing powers of the mind while purifying, energizing, and regenerating the body. Accessible to all experience-levels, Baptiste’s style of yoga is a wonderful blend of eastern philosophy and western athleticism. It provides a personalized, safe, and challenging yoga program that allows anyone to progress at their own pace, with a master teacher leading the way. Utilizing the same unique formula as the bestselling Pilates Body Kit, this kit includes: – TWO SEVENTY-FIVE MINUTE COMPACT DISCS allow for instruction while practicing a full Yoga Bootcamp class and three mini-classes to target different areas of the body – EIGHTY FLASH CARDS for quick and easy-to follow cues. Full-color instructional cards with photographs of each pose along with tips on technique and breathing – INTERACTIVE WORKBOOK to track progress, containing a sc… More >>
The Yoga Bootcamp Box: An Interactive Program to Revolutionize Your Life with Yoga
