Yoga Books
The Easy Yoga Workbook: The Perfect Introduction to Yoga
The ultimately practical Yoga class in a book. This book and CD set aims to bring all the benefits of a yoga trainer into the home. It includes a CD with complete 60-minute yoga workout featuring the 20 yoga postures explained in the book. The Easy Yoga Workbook includes specially commissioned exercise photographs, and analyses the most common problems associated with the postures, giving specific instructions on how to overcome them. The book and CD also feature 5 simple, guided meditations. In the workbook each posture is accompanied by clear advice on its benefits for body and mind; and each has its own "solutions" and variations page. All the poses have been selected because they help overcome common health problems caused by modern lifestyles - poor posture; back, neck and shoulder pain; poor concentration; and so on. The postures in this fully-interactive yoga workout can be practised by anyone of any age and any level of fitness. [Buy from Amazon.co.uk]
10-minute Yoga Workouts: Power Tone Your Body from Top to Toe
This title is an accessible guide to using yoga for relaxation, confidence, health and staying in perfect shape. Barbara Currie's programme should help you to achieve the bodyshape you've always wanted. "10 Minute Yoga Workouts" allows anyone to discover the benefits of yoga - whatever size, shape or age. The book contains exercises which should tone and firm the body, working the muscles and internal organs and keeping the spine and joints in perfect condition. It also explains how yoga can promote relaxation and the discovery of the inner peace and happiness. [Buy from Amazon.co.uk]
The Yoga Bible: The Definitive Guide to Yoga Postures
Yoga practice helps individuals to find mental and physical balance. It is suitable for all ages and abilities and should bring about a sense of spiritual and physical well-being, as well as suppleness. This text encourages beginners and experts alike to design a yoga sequence to suit their own personal needs and abilities. Featuring over 150 yogic postures from the main schools of yoga, including Iyengar and Astanga Vinyasa, "The Yoga Bible" provides a comprehensive, illustrated, step-by-step guide to achieving the postures and advice on altering them where necessary - easier postures are highlighted for beginners or the less supple. The book also includes more advanced positions for advanced yogis. The text includes notes on various types of yoga practices as well as a summary of well-known traditional schools of yoga and how they vary. In addition to the wide range of postures, the author includes advice on breathing techniques and the benefits of yoga in healing, pregnancy, de-stressing and meditation. [Buy from Amazon.co.uk]
Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing
The definitive book of yoga therapy, this ground-breaking work comes to you from the medical editor of the country’s premier yoga magazine, who is both a practising yogi and a Western-trained physician. [Buy from Amazon.co.uk]
Yoga for Real Life: The Kundalini Method
The effervescent, charismatic Maya Fiennes will do for relaxation and yoga what Nigella Lawson did for food and cookery. In "Yoga for Real Life", she has written a book aimed at bringing yoga principles into all aspects of your everyday life. It is full of yoga tips, exercises and wisdom. Maya Fiennes, who teaches the Kundalini method of yoga both face-to-face and on Sky TV, introduces her method, shares her story, and reveals the secrets of Kundalini Yoga that have helped her and her students to manage the stresses and strains of everyday life, the challenges that most of us encounter at some stage in our lives. Chapters include: 'Be Here, Now', 'Detox and De-stress', 'Self esteem', 'Staying Youthful' and 'Love and Relationships'. Combining poses, breathing, chanting and meditation to give you a full mind-body workout, with recipes, mantras and Maya's personal story, and illustrated with full-colour photographs by David 'Jamie Oliver' Loftus, Maya shows how yoga practice and philosophy can easily be incorporated into your daily routine. "Yoga for Real Life" is a book for your handbag, your desk, and your bedside table: your indispensable guide to achieving the most from your daily life - for the rest of your life. [Buy from Amazon.co.uk]
