Yoga Alignment Principles and Practice B&W Edition


Book Description

Black and White format: This text is a unique and an essential guide for bringing refinement to your asana practice using clear and concise principles for how the body correctly moves and aligns. It is a comprehensive exploration of anatomy, postural mechanics and the basic principles of yoga as therapy. This book is appropriate for all styles of yoga. It is perfect for yoga teacher training courses and for earnest students at all levels of experience. It provides insightful tips and answers to many questions that arise for both teachers and students alike. Its concepts are user-friendly and always presented from yoga's point of view.




Yoga Alignment Principles and Practice


Book Description

Black and White format: Unique and essential for yoga teachers and students. Comprehensive text explores fundamentals of yoga alignment and body mechanics. Provides use-friendly system that applies to every pose. Learn move correctly, integrate posture, align to deepen and advance without injury. Learn to use yoga as powerful, effective therapy.




Yoga Alignment Principles and Practice Four-Color Edition


Book Description

A textbook designed for yoga teacher trainings and all yoga teachers and practitioners wanting to bring anatomy and postural mechanics into a precise aligned practice. Bring grace and refinement to every asana. Allow every practice to advance skillfully. Learn the best methods to make yoga asana a sophisticated form of physical therapy.




Yoga Alignment Principles and Practice


Book Description

Color format: Unique and essential for yoga teachers and students. Comprehensive text explores fundamentals of yoga alignment and body mechanics. Provides use-friendly system that applies to every pose. Learn move correctly, integrate posture, align to deepen and advance without injury. Learn to use yoga as powerful, effective therapy.




The Injury-Free Yoga Practice


Book Description

A comprehensive guide to anatomy and alignment and the ideal resource fora ll styles and traditions of yoga practice. It is also an excellent anatomy textbook for yoga teacher trainings. Additional to the anatomy and alignment principles, many yoga therapy applications are provided to address common injuries.




The Yoga Technique Guide


Book Description

A step by Step manual outlining proven alignment principles and techniques for all styles of yoga. Also detailed yoga sequencing methods and techniques for home practice or teachers.




Yoga and Alignment


Book Description

This book offers an accessible and lively look at yoga philosophy and psychology. Following the model of the eight limbs of yoga the authors engage the tradition from its foundational ethics to the highest states of consciousness. Based on 30 years of research and practice, it connects the insights of this ancient tradition to our lives and the challenges facing us today. This work will appeal to a broad audience including scholars, yoga teachers and practitioners. and general readers who have an interest in philosophy, meditation and psychology.




Yoga Lessons For Beginners


Book Description

Yoga is much more than a trendy way to exercise, which is mostly what it's known as in the west. And despite the yoga images on Instagram that make it seem intimidatingly tough, you don't need a specific body type or level of flexibility to practice it. In reality, there are many misconceptions about yoga, and knowing the facts before unfurling your mat for the first time can help you appropriately honor its origins and make the most of your experience. This book will give you things to Know Before Taking Your First yoga and basic practice philosophy and specific principles of alignment for you to start yoga. This book will teach you: -History and philosophy of yoga -General practice guidelines -Pranayama: breath control -Meditation and mental focus -Asanas: 30 fundamental yoga postures -Anatomical alignment principles -Eight yoga posture sequences -Options to go further and deepen your practice




Yoga: Critical Alignment


Book Description

Yoga: Critical Alignment is an innovative, illustrated guide to new practices that release the tension held in the body to create a new balanced alignment. In yoga, even seasoned practitioners have the habit of working the body from the surface layers of muscle. The muscles are linked to will power and discipline, and working hard on the mat can create unhealthy strain in the body. Author Gert van Leeuwen teaches his unique sequences of standing postures, inversions, forward bends, backbends, twists, and pranayama to get you to optimal alignment and ease. Each thoughtfully sequenced practice is meticulously illustrated so that you can keep this book at your side while you practice. Core topics include: • The role of the skeleton in movement chains and sequences • How to enhance the body's mobility and deepen body awareness • Cultivating a meditation and pranayama practice • Instructions and refinement: inversions, standing postures, forward bends, backbends, twists, seated postures • Planning lessons for a home practice or a studio environment




Science of Yoga


Book Description

Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle, and master each asana with confidence and control. Did you know that yoga practice can help lower your blood pressure, decrease inflammation and prevent age-related brain changes? Recent scientific research now backs up what were once anecdotal claims about the benefits of yoga to every system in the body. Science of Yoga reveals the facts, with annotated artworks that show the mechanics, the angles, how your blood flow and respiration are affected, the key muscle and joint actions working below the surface of each pose, safe alignment and much more. With insight into variations on the poses and a Q&A section that explores the science behind every aspect of yoga, this easy-to-understand, comprehensive book is an invaluable resource to achieve technical excellence in your practice and optimize the benefits of yoga for your body and mind.