Yoga for exercise Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review“Anodea Judith’s Charge and the Energy Body takes you on a beautiful journey through the subtle energies that animate your body. Based on a lifetime of curiosity and creative exploration, it will help you understand your own workings, the forces that propel those you love, and how to stabilize and harmonize the energies within you and beyond you. I recommend it highly.” —Donna Eden and David Feinstein, Ph.D., co-authors of Energy Medicine and The Energies of Love “In this landmark book, Anodea Judith further addresses the role of the chakras in personality and our intimate relationships. She advances her original understanding of the energy systems of life and shows us just how we can ride the wave of charge and excitement and embody that aliveness. This journey opens the door to the inner experience of the authentic self, of our relationship to ourselves and to others. Anodea also pays particular attention to the effect that trauma has upon our vital energy centers. She then provides maps to help us move back into life, and to know and achieve what we truly want in life.” —Peter A. Levine, author of Waking the Tiger; Healing Trauma; and In an Unspoken Voice “Everything is possible. And the key is in your charge and the energy body. When your charge blends with its source, the universal charge, you have arrived home. That power is within your grasp. In her book Charge and the Energy Body, Anodea gives us a complete, original, and fresh insight into the possibility of living an orgasmic, ecstatic, and joyful life-physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Read this book, and you'll have the key to Heaven!” —Margot Anand, author of Love, Sex, and Awakening “Anodea takes you step by step through an understanding of your life force, including how to enhance it, balance it, and use it for healing. With her foundational practices, we can become better human beings and agents of positive change.” —Stephen Dinan, CEO of The Shift Network, author of Sacred America, Sacred World “Superb addition to the field of energy psychology with deep insights, juicy awarenesses, and creative practices. Well written and energizing to read, with a nice balance of personal stories, case examples, and theories.” —Michael Mayer, Ph.D., author of Energy Psychology “Anodea Judith’s Charge and the Energy Body will become one of the 'must-have' books for body-oriented and energy-oriented health-care professionals. Her focus on 'charge' as an energetic phenomenon provides a nonjudgmental language and point of view that can be used easily by therapists and accepted by clients. She provides a wealth of information about different patterns of charge with different types of problems, as well as how to shift those patterns. The book provides plenty of exercises that can help therapists and their clients experience and embody different ways of being. I highly recommend this book."” —Robert Schwarz, Psy.D., DCEP, Executive Director of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology "By focusing on charge, on the flow of life energy through the body, Anodea Judith has given us a new way of looking at human behavior and emotion during trauma, healing, and self-regulation. If you want a deeper understanding of yourself and those around you, this book is for you." —Steven Kessler, psychotherapist and author of The 5 Personality Patterns "Anodea Judith's book Charge and the Energy Body is a fascinating and comprehensive view on life force. A great read for anyone interested in understanding how life force affects our physical, mental, and spiritual health. I especially love all the practical techniques to help us stay charged and vital on all these levels." —Lisa Van Ostrand, Dean of Advanced Studies at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing

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Book SynopsisProvides an account of 'practising', its mechanisms and implications, in conversation with Deleuze's Difference and Repetition.Trade Review"Antonia Pont's achievement in this book is difficult to quickly summarise. This is a thinking-through practicing, displaying an extremely sensitivity to its manifold complexities; a meticulous, illuminating and fresh working-through of Gilles Deleuze's baroque philosophy of time; a consideration of rest and posture, injury and pain in their proper texture Pont does not simply reconstruct that familiar bridge between the clich of blind practice and sovereign, panoptic philosophy. In place of application, this astonishing book instead presents a weaving, an intertwining, in the course of which the discrete places of philosophy and practice are themselves undone and redone over and over again, their original names lost in the difficult joy of their ceaseless transformation." -Jon Roffe, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy

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Book SynopsisThis resource will help yoga teachers, physical therapists, and individuals with disabilities create safe and effective yoga practices that accommodate conditions such as low back pain, arthritis, spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, limb amputation, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis.Trade Review"Although the benefits of adaptive yoga for people with unique physical abilities are being increasingly recognized, there are no published guidelines for safe implementation. Dr. Yang's and Dr. Fahey's expertise in Adaptive Yoga fills a much-needed void. This will be a go-to guide—not only for people with disabilities but also for yoga instructors and for health care professionals hoping to integrate holistic interventions with their patients.”—Kelly Krese, DPT, NCS, Neurologic Physical Therapist at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab“In this important work, Dr. Yang and Dr. Fahey invite you to come back to the essence of yoga, illustrating in a clear and comprehensive way how the postures can (and should) be adapted to each person according to their specific needs. This guide is an essential contribution to the field of yoga therapy, outlining safe and effective practices to promote healing and optimal well-being.”—Rachel Krentzman PT, C-IAYT, Physical Therapist, Yoga Therapist, and Author of Yoga for a Happy Back and Scoliosis, Yoga Therapy, and the Art of Letting Go“As a physical therapist and yoga and movement educator, I get goose bumps thinking about the power of this book's message and the overall work of Dr. Ingrid Yang. Ingrid is defying convention in her field to amplify and lead with a simple, noninvasive, nonpharmaceutical approach that could enhance the quality of life for those experiencing challenging and sometimes disabling conditions. This is a well-referenced guide to understanding how and why to apply yoga asana under a wide range of circumstances.”—Ariele Foster, DPT, PT, E-RYT 500, Founder of YogaAnatomyAcademy.com“This detailed yet accessibly written book is a gift for curious students of yoga, a resource for yoga teachers, and a primer for rehabilitation professionals seeking to understand the use of yoga asana as a targeted means of increasing strength and flexibility. It is also, crucially, a welcome portal to further exploration: As Dr. Yang and Dr. Fahey remind readers, “The goal of adaptive yoga is not only to modify yoga poses but to use yoga as a tool to improve mobility, function, and quality of life.”—Laurie Hyland Robertson, Editor in Chief of Yoga Therapy Today"This book is an amazing effort and accomplishment to help fill a void our health care system is not always able to fill."—Bijal Patel, MD, Nephrologist, Patient Advocate, and Physician Advocate"Adaptive Yoga is a well-thought-out introduction to yoga posture variations to help both yoga professionals and health care providers serve wider audiences. The book is an important bridge that will allow many more individuals to safely access the important health benefits of yoga asana practice."—Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, C-IAYT, National Yoga Safety Expert, Past President of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and Board Member of Accessible Yoga Table of ContentsPart I. Principles of Adapting YogaChapter 1. Yoga as RehabilitationChapter 2. How the Body MovesPart II. Adapting Yoga for Specific DisabilitiesChapter 3. Low Back PainChapter 4. Osteoarthritis of the Hip and KneeChapter 5. Rheumatoid ArthritisChapter 6. Lower Limb AmputationChapter 7. Spinal Cord InjuryChapter 8. Parkinson’s DiseaseChapter 9. StrokeChapter 10. Multiple SclerosisChapter 11. Cerebral Palsy

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Book SynopsisA brief introduction to yoga and the eight limbs will be followed by alignment, breathing and then postures specifically for outdoor activities. Activities covered will include hiking, cycling, climbing, and paddling. Specific poses and practice flows will be outlined as well as meditations, breath work and syncing with nature's rhythms. Leave no trace principles will be tied in with the foundational yoga philosophy as well as observance of our place in nature. Readers will be inspired to incorporate yoga practices into their lives on and off the trail, bike, wall, or water.

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Book SynopsisProvides step-by-step instructions and photographs on asana (postures) and pranayama (breathing techniques) for fifty sequences; lists the benefits of each sequence and include helpful information about modifications for poses; and encourages readers to create sequences on their own, using the sequences in the book as starting points.Millions of people take time out of their busy schedules every day to attend yoga classes where they learn postures and breathing techniques that make them feel more energized and balanced. Thousands of other people, however, have yet to find the time in their days to do anything but work, study, or chase after their children. In The Joy of Yoga, author and expert Emma Silverman teaches readers how to take advantage of the health benefits yoga offers even when they can’t make it to regularly scheduled classes.The Joy of Yoga offers short sequences that readers can perform while seated on airplanes, standing at the bus stop, or even while waiting for water to boil. In addition, it also includes sequences to help with daily aches, pains, and annoyances, such as tired feet, sensitive wrists, neck and shoulder tension, anxiety, and even heartbreak. Weekend gardeners, runners, musicians, and waiters/waitresses will also find exercises that will help ease the tension in their muscles after long hours of work or play.“Using this book is simple. Find the sequence that sounds just right, open up to the page, and follow the images. All of the poses have their names listed in Sanskrit and in English. The sequences are complete with warm-ups, complete yoga practices, and cool downs. If you’re a little pressed for time (who isn’t?), then move through the postures using one breath per pose, unless otherwise noted. If you’re looking for a longer practice, you can hold poses for a little longer or combine multiple sequences. Or just take a really long SAVANASA (Relaxation Pose) at the end.”Trade Review“Emma writes the way I aspire to live my life: thoughtfully, serenely, and without taking herself too seriously.” —Shai Davidai, assistant professor of psychology, The New School for Social Research "No one makes the grind fun and spiritually fulfilling like Emma Silverman. She's all about making everyday life happier." —Yardenne Greenspan, translator of Some Day and fiction author“Emma writes the way I aspire to live my life: thoughtfully, serenely, and without taking herself too seriously.” —Shai Davidai, assistant professor of psychology, The New School for Social Research "No one makes the grind fun and spiritually fulfilling like Emma Silverman. She's all about making everyday life happier." —Yardenne Greenspan, translator of Some Day and fiction author

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Book Synopsis'Raw. Vulnerable. Open. Truthful . . . This is a book that will open up the floor for even more honest conversations about the side of yoga we don't often see.' - Angie Tiwari @tiwariyogaHow did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged?Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga for twenty-five years. She has also worked as a yoga teacher. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success.Trade ReviewThe first yoga book I've read that has a punk rock attitude and does what it says on the tin. Nadia is a formidable storyteller taking us through the highs and lows of her personal journey. However, the most critical aspect is her fierce analysis of the appropriation of yoga. -- Sima Kumar, co-founder and CEO of The Other Box and founder of Sima SaysRaw. Vulnerable. Open. Truthful. Exposing the darker side of the industry provides us all with the pathway to reach the lightness that yoga brings. This is a book that will open up the floor for even more honest conversations about the side of yoga we don't often see. -- Angie Tiwari @tiwariyogaThe Yoga Manifesto is about equality and creativity and revolutionary hope – and you definitely don’t need to practise yoga to know these things matter. -- Stella Duffy, author of Lullaby Beach

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Book Synopsis'Raw. Vulnerable. Open. Truthful . . . This is a book that will open up the floor for even more honest conversations about the side of yoga we don't often see.' - Angie Tiwari @tiwariyogaHow did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged?Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga for twenty-five years. She has also worked as a yoga teacher. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation.Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success.Trade ReviewThe first yoga book I've read that has a punk rock attitude and does what it says on the tin. Nadia is a formidable storyteller taking us through the highs and lows of her personal journey. However, the most critical aspect is her fierce analysis of the appropriation of yoga. -- Sima Kumar, co-founder and CEO of The Other Box and founder of Sima SaysRaw. Vulnerable. Open. Truthful. Exposing the darker side of the industry provides us all with the pathway to reach the lightness that yoga brings. This is a book that will open up the floor for even more honest conversations about the side of yoga we don't often see. -- Angie Tiwari @tiwariyogaThe Yoga Manifesto is about equality and creativity and revolutionary hope – and you definitely don’t need to practise yoga to know these things matter. -- Stella Duffy, author of Lullaby Beach

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Book Synopsis'Laughter yoga is a perfect way to laugh and get exercise at the same time...I've tried it, and it works.' - Oprah WinfreyWith Laughter Yoga, join the worldwide movement and discover how laughter really is the best medicine!This book will show you how to bring laughter into your life at any time of the day - no special equipment needed, no new wardrobe, no expensive classes, not even a sense of humour! Laughter Yoga is all about voluntary laughter - how you can learn to laugh even in the absence of humorous stimuli, and reap the extraordinary, scientifically proven benefits, which include stress reduction, pain relief, weight loss and enhanced mood. If you act happy, you'll become happy - your body can't tell the difference. The exercises in Laughter Yoga combine voluntary laughter with yogic breathing to give you a full mind-body workout. And it turns out that laughter is the fastest way to reduce stress and the best kind of cardio: 30 minutes of hearty laughter is equal to thirty minutes on the rowing machine.'Laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.' - John Cleese, after visiting a laughter club in Mumbai during the filming of BBC's TV series The Human Face'Laughter yoga exemplifies a form of 'right-brain thinking' that managers should promote.' - Daniel H. PinkTrade ReviewLaughter yoga is a perfect way to laugh and get exercise at the same time. It approaches laughter as a body exercise so it's easy tolaugh even if you're depressed or in a bad mood...I've tried it, and it works. * Oprah Winfrey, Courier-Mail *I can't think of any other body-mind technique that has caught on this way. I told [the] American Senate Committee during a hearingabout healthcare reform that laughter yoga could help lower American healthcare costs. * Dr. Andrew Weil *Laughter yoga exemplifies a form of 'right-brain thinking' that managers should promote. * Daniel H. Pink *Laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're justhowling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. * John Cleese, after visiting a laughter club in Mumbai during the filming of BBC’s TV series The Human Face *

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Book Synopsis'Laughter yoga is a perfect way to laugh and get exercise at the same time...I've tried it, and it works.' - Oprah WinfreyWith Laughter Yoga, join the worldwide movement and discover how laughter really is the best medicine!This book will show you how to bring laughter into your life at any time of the day - no special equipment needed, no new wardrobe, no expensive classes, not even a sense of humour!Laughter Yoga is all about voluntary laughter - how you can learn to laugh even in the absence of humorous stimuli, and reap the extraordinary, scientifically proven benefits, which include stress reduction, pain relief, weight loss and enhanced mood. If you act happy, you'll become happy - your body can't tell the difference.The exercises in Laughter Yoga combine voluntary laughter with yogic breathing to give you a full mind-body workout. And it turns out that laughter is the fastest way to reduce stress and the best kind of cardio: 30 minutes of hearty laughter is equal to thirty minutes on the rowing machine.'Laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.' - John Cleese, after visiting a laughter club in Mumbai during the filming of BBC's TV series The Human Face'Laughter yoga exemplifies a form of 'right-brain thinking' that managers should promote.' - Daniel H. PinkTrade ReviewLaughter yoga is a perfect way to laugh and get exercise at the same time. It approaches laughter as a body exercise so it's easy tolaugh even if you're depressed or in a bad mood...I've tried it, and it works. * Oprah Winfrey, Courier-Mail *I can't think of any other body-mind technique that has caught on this way. I told [the] American Senate Committee during a hearingabout healthcare reform that laughter yoga could help lower American healthcare costs. * Dr. Andrew Weil *Laughter yoga exemplifies a form of 'right-brain thinking' that managers should promote. * Daniel H. Pink *Laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're justhowling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. * John Cleese, after visiting a laughter club in Mumbai during the filming of BBC’s TV series The Human Face *

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Book SynopsisToo busy? Too stressed? Can't focus? But would you love to discover the power of regular practice?This book is for you. The Book of Yoga Self-Practice is the ultimate guide for every aspiring yogi or dedicated student who wants to find the magic of an independent yoga self-practice - one that's simple, practical, captivating and attainable.No need to travel to a class, or struggle to find the exact type of teaching you need in any given moment. No need to follow a video or come up with the pre-planned sequence. No need to keep spending money on classes or subscriptions that never quite fit the bill. This step-by-step guide will show you how to overcome the challenges of starting, continuing and progressing in a yoga self-practice. It combines heartfelt writing with beautiful, clear design to provide 20 usable and unbelievably helpful tools that you can implement in your yoga practice today. Learn to practice anywhere at anytime, not just do poses. Fast, slow, short, long - your flow starts here. Start reaping the incredible rewards for your body and mind.

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Book SynopsisWhy do you feel so much better after a yoga class?What is it that takes yoga beyond being merely a way to physically exercise the body, and instead renders it a tool for effectuating deep and lasting emotional change?In Yoga Saved My Life psychotherapist and yoga teacher Sasha Bates demystifies both yoga and psychotherapy, exploring the links between them and showing how each can be transformational. This sits alongside personal stories from members of the Fierce Calm yoga community - people who have experienced all manner of difficulties, whether due to neglect, addiction, abuse, anxiety, depression, stress or any of the other myriad ways in which we all struggle with modern life. Here they tell their stories of finding yoga, and thereby discovering a path through the beliefs and behaviours that had been holding them back and keeping them miserable.If you've ever wondered why you feel so much better after a yoga class, then the explanations of how any why yoga works will enlighten you. Written using down to earth language and in a warm conversational tone, you will come to see how yoga is doing what psychotherapy does: providing a safe, containing, reflective space in which you can access your unconscious, develop self-awareness and find ways to relate to yourself better. This new relationship with your self offers new ways to work with the automatic habits you do without thinking, but which hold you back, practically and emotionally. 'Yoga Saved My Life shows us gently and persuasively that healing the mind is as important as healing the body, and yoga is a great way of doing this' - Vex King, author of Good Vibes, Good Life and Healing is the New HighTrade ReviewYoga Saved My Life shows us gently and persuasively that healing the mind is as important as healing the body, and yoga is a great way of doing this -- Vex KingDuring this very ugly moment in global history, we all need as much support as possible. Thankfully,Sasha Bates has gifted us with a magnificent jewel, exploring the physical and psychological benefits of yoga and so much more besides. This extremely readable and engaging book offers essential life-saving wisdom and calm. -- Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health, Regent’s University LondonSuch a wonderfully enjoyable - and practical - book. A lovely guided voice making sense in a crowded space. -- Liz Earle MBESasha takes everyday issues of modern life - stress, anxiety, depression, insecurity, overwhelm - and clearly unpacks them psychotherapeutically while revealing how the practice of yoga can help us grow in tolerance, agency, purpose, and compassion. -- Sandra Gillespie, Somatic Therapist, London, UKSasha demystifies yoga and gives a refreshing antidote to the off-putting public face that yoga sometimes presents. -- Karen Russell, senior yoga teacher, and adaptive and sports yoga teacher

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Book SynopsisViral Scottish yoga star Finlay Wilson is back with Wild Kilted Yoga. Get ready for more tartan, more dramatic scenery and more tips and tricks to make your yoga practice extra special. This beautiful book features four special yoga sequences that can be done alone, plus a bonus fun sequence for couples to do together. Finlay's book will take you on a journey through some of Scotland's most stunning locations and will leave you feeling zen and grounded. Building on the foundations of yoga from his bestselling first book, Kilted Yoga, Finlay guides you through unique yoga sequences which are suitable for all levels: strong heat-building poses for Fire, flowing and graceful movements for Water, steady and grounded poses for Earth, and lightness and poise for Air.All you have to do is enjoy the stunning photography, feel at one with nature and roll out your yoga mat - kilt optional! 'Yoga and kilts in a Perthshire forest has proved to be just what the world was waiting for.' - BBC

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Book SynopsisYogi Ramacharaka was the pseudonym of William Walker Atkinson. He published works related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. This volume contains 3 informative and compelling books on the practice of yoga.Table of ContentsPreface; Book 1: A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga -- The I; The Egos Mental Tools; The Expansion of the Self; Mental Control; The Cultivation of Attention; Cultivation of Perception; The Unfoldment of Consciousness; The Highlands and Lowlands of Mind; The Mental Planes; Sub-Consciousing; Sub-Conscious Character Building; Sub-Conscious Influences. Book 2: A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga -- The One; Omnipresent Life; The Creative Will; The Unity of Life; The One and the Many; Within the Mind of the One; Cosmic Evolution; The Ascent of Man; Metempsychosis; Spiritual Evolution; The Law of Karma; Occult Miscellany; Book 3: The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath; Salaam; Breath Is Life; The Exoteric Theory of Breath; The Esoteric Theory of Breath; The Nervous System; Nostril Breathing vs. Mouth Breathing; The Four Methods of Respiration; How to Acquire the Yogi Complete Breath; Physiological Effect of the Complete Breath; A Few Bits of Yogi Lore; The Seven Yogi Developing Exercises; Seven Minor Yogi Exercises; Vibration and Yogi Rhythmic Breathing; Phenomena of Yogi Psychic Breathing; More Phenomena of Yogi Psychic Breathing; Yogi Spiritual Breathing; Index.

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Book Synopsis"Brett translates the magic of ancient yoga for those who need it most." - James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of BreathOverwhelmed? Overscheduled? Want to access the benefits of yoga, but can't seem to make it to the mat? Beat stress with a yoga ritual that works for you in 20-minutes or less. Featuring adaptations for anxiety, weight loss, injury, and prenatal yoga, this "playful and real" (Elena Brower) guide is a must-read for beginners and seasoned yoga teachers alike.We all know that yoga can calm your mind and heal your body, but let's be real: It can be hard to cram one more thing into your messy, stressful, time-crunched life. Good news! If you're not making it to the mat, the problem isn't you-it's the yoga you're practicing. Award-winning instructor and Uplifted Yoga founder Brett Larkin is here to help you design an adaptable, personalized practice, and cut to the chase with quick yoga habits that soothe your soul. With the support of quizzes and thirty book-exclusive companion videos you'll learn: - A five-step method to design a personal practice that works for your schedule.- How to adapt your practice to meet your physical, mental, and emotional needs.- More than a dozen yoga habits that will help you calm your mind and body, even if you never manage to make it to the mat.Grounded in the wisdom of yoga's original texts, Brett reminds us that yoga was always meant to fit easily into our everyday lives. Whether you're a beginner or a life-long practitioner, Yoga Life is your new go-to for a personal, transformative, joyful at-home practice to strengthen your mind, body, and spirit.

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Book SynopsisThe innovative YogaKids® 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® 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® 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 emotional benefits of each pose; children discover that learning is fun, that exercise feels good, and that taking care of their bodies is easy. - Designed for kids and adults to use together - Integrates yoga with verbal, spatial, and mathematical learning - Follow-up to the best-selling YogaKids® video, a Parents' Choice award winner - Two new videos to be released this fall - National author tour - National print and broadcast publicity - Online marketing

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Book SynopsisShannon McQuaide's book explores the benefits and practical application of yoga and its benefit to first responders.Table of Contents Part I: The Crisis in the Fire Service 1. Today’s Fire Service Needs a Conscious Warrior Culture Part II: East Meets West—Why Yoga Belongs in the Fire Station 2. From Badass Warrior to Savasana: The Benefits of Yoga for Firefightersand First Responders 3. What Does Resilience Have to Do with Yoga? Part III: The Science behind Yoga and Mindfulness 4. How Yoga Reduces Chronic Stress and What That Means for Your Job and Your Life 5. Take Heart: How Yoga and Mindfulness Mitigate Chronic Diseasesand Disorders Part IV: How to Set Up an Evidence-Based Yoga Program in Your Fire Station 6. Fireflex Yoga Fundamentals: Everything You Need to Know 7. Day One: Starting on the Right Foot Part V: The Classes 8. My Hips Are Too Tight! Classes 1 and 2 9. Shouldering the Burden: Classes 3–4 10. Trunk Stability for Your Aching Back: Classes 5–6 11. Balancing Your Life: Classes 7 and 8 12. #ItAllConnects: Classes 9–10 Part VI: The Conscious Warrior1 3. The Conscious Warrior: A Mind-Body Approach to Leadership The Yoga Challenge

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Book SynopsisYoga for Hikers will show you how to create a yoga practice at home that will keep you healthy, prevent injuries, and support and improve your outdoor passions. This guide feature easy-to-understand yoga poses and sequences designed to address the specific stresses that hiking enact on the body. This guide feature: - Detailed overviews of the areas of the body most impacted by climbing and hiking - Injuries common to these sports that yoga can address - Explanation of yoga's physical and mental benefits, and how it can enhance time on rock or trail - Foundational techniques for creating a yoga practice, including the fundamentals of meditation - Several sequences for a home practice, designed specifically for climbers and hikers - Interviews with climbers and hikers who use yoga to support their physical strength and hone their mental focus--from professionals, such as Steph Davis and Buzz Burrell, to average weekend-warriors For inspiration and visual appeal, the books include panoramas of yoga poses in outdoor settings, studio photos of the specific yoga poses and sequences, and technical drawings related to anatomy and common ailments.

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Book SynopsisThe ever-increasing popularity of Yoga and related practices makes a desktop reference like this indispensible. With over twenty-five hundred entries and extensive illustrations, it combines comprehensiveness with accessibility. The book is arranged and written in a manner that will inform rather than overwhelm the lay reader, while at the same time offering valuable references for the professional researcher and the historian of religion. This new edition includes information about contemporary Yoga teachers. It also provides fuller descriptions and illustrations of Yoga poses, and features additional cross references.

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Book SynopsisThis practical guide offers a pioneering method of chair yoga for every body: a full practice of asana, breathing, and meditation with 250 instructional photos.Lakshmi Voelker?s Chair Yoga™ method upends the myth that yoga is only for the flexible, strong, balanced, thin, and conventionally able-bodied. Whether you need or want chair support, or you would like to get in some yoga practice while you sit at your work desk, Get Fit Where You Sit offers 40 active and restorative poses, illustrated with 250 photos, along with breathing techniques and meditation practices?all adapted so that you don?t have to leave your chair. Poses include: Tree Pose?for a flexible spine and to combat the ?slump? we often get with a sedentary lifestyle Eagle Pose?for healthy joints Squat Pose?to relax the lower back Knee-to-Chest Pose?to support good digestion Coherent breathing?to bring the body?s systems into balance And much more Lakshmi Voelker and Liz Oppedijk offer a powerful, inclusive practice that is appropriate for new students or longtime practitioners and can easily be implemented by yoga instructors, educators, medical professionals, exercise professionals, or caretakers for work with their clients.

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Book SynopsisWorking with 12 common herbs, Amy Jirsa offers recipes and ideas to open your mind, strengthen your body, and nourish your spirit. In-depth profiles show you how to unlock the powerful properties of calendula, chamomile, cinnamon, dandelion, echinacea, elder, ginger, holy basil, lavender, nettle, rose, and turmeric through delicious teas and foods, luxurious salves, skin and hair care treatments, complementary yoga poses, and meditations. Discover the natural keys to radiant health and wellness.

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Book SynopsisThere's so much more to teaching yoga than doing yoga - from building a relationship with a studio (or opening your own) to navigating client relationships, publicising classes, and avoiding burnout. Sage Rountree has been training yoga teachers for over a decade, and she's heard the same concerns over and over: How can I help my students best? How can I keep my teaching fresh? How can I make smart choices around my schedule, my money, and the next steps in my career?The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook speaks directly to these concerns in a warm, friendly voice - boostingteachers' confidence in their ability to construct a heartfelt, balanced class, and to build a career that suits them. Rountree includes stories from her own experience, journal prompts, and thoughtful workbook exercises to help aspiring yoga teachers discern their path, and to provide current yoga teachers with much-desired continuing education. This is the book every yoga teacher needs!

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Book SynopsisAccording to Power Yoga, more than 16 million yoga enthusiasts in America spend almost $3 billion dollars on classes and products each year. Yoga is becoming an increasingly popular activity, and author Ulrica Norberg helps yoga-goers put their money to good work by demonstrating technique in vivid detail and by revealing yoga’s extraordinary power to heal. Norberg believes yoga can aid us in developing our own life philosophies through a synthesis of Eastern ideology and self-reflection. Her book Power Yoga is at once a testament to the beauty and grace of yoga and a how-to guide that explains practice and form. Norberg takes readers through the elements of yoga and the basic movements and techniques specific to power yoga. Filled with beautiful full-color photographs illustrating sun-salutations (the basis of power yoga exercises), numerous asanas (poses), and meditation techniques, her book is useful for all levels of instruction and inspiration. This is one of the few practical yoga books that truly expresses the joy, physicality, and temperament of yoga, which has become a passion for so many Americans—young and old and men and women alike.

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Book SynopsisSexual development does not end in adolescence. There are advanced stages of glandular, emotional, and erotic development based in the lifelong "puberty of the spine." Known in India as kundalini awakening, these stages form the energetic basis of all yoga forms and deeper erotic aspirations. They present an opportunity for couples and individuals to explore the consciousness-expanding abilities of sexual energy as both spirituality and sexuality transform into what Michel Foucault called ars erotica, far beyond the Freudian scientia sexualissexuality of the Western world. Offering a guide to the advanced stages of human sexuality and a passionately infused tantric yoga practice, Stuart Sovatsky explains how to awaken the complete spinal puberty, resulting in spiritual intimacy and orgasmic pineal maturity that far surpasses the gratifications of modern sexuality. With illustrated instructions, he reveals flow-yoga asanas, mantras, and devotional breathing practices for solo kundalini yoga as well as couples'' yoga practices and chakra meditations to awaken the heart and the divinely eroticized mind. He shares inspiring stories from those on this path about ever-deepening life partnerships, enriched family life, enhanced personal creativity, profound new understandings of conception, masculinity, femininity, and gender itself as well as healing emotional scars of romantic breakups and sexual abuse. Sovatsky shows that by transcending conventional Western sexuality and returning to the ars eroticabeliefs of ancient India, we can harness the divine energy--glimpsed for only an instant by most people--at the heart of all erotic yearning.

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Book SynopsisFor those faced with a cancer diagnosis and the journey of doctor-led surgery and treatments, yoga offers a way to regain control of your body and take an active part in your recovery and long-term health. In this easy-to-follow illustrated guide, yoga teacher and cancer survivor Tari Prinster presents 53 carefully selected yoga poses and sequences, adaptable for all levels of ability, which use movement and breathing to address specific conditions and cancer challenges. Sharing her own story as well as those of cancer survivors and yoga teachers with whom she has worked, Prinster explores how yoga can be used to manage treatment side effects, strengthen the immune system, rebuild bone density, avoid and manage lymphedema, decrease anxiety, detoxify the body, reduce pain, and help the body repair damage caused by the cancer and conventional treatments. She reveals the research that supports the physical and psychological benefits of yoga as an aid to recovery and in reducing the risk of recurrence. Explaining how yoga must be tailored to each survivor, Prinster gives you the tools to create a safe home yoga practice, one that addresses your abilities, energy level, and overall health goals. Through personal stories, well-illustrated poses, and sample practices for beginners as well as experienced yoga practitioners, Prinster empowers survivors to create their own wellness plan in order to regain their independence and their physical and emotional well-being.Trade Review“Prinster, a breast cancer survivor and certified yoga teacher, presents an innovative plan to help readers diagnosed with cancer reap the benefits of yoga practice, from diagnosis through recovery. Admitting she was initially skeptical of yoga’s “healing powers,” Prinster takes readers through the scientific research, concluding that yoga can function as the “organ muscle” of the lymphatic system: helping with lymphatic drainage, venous return, bone building, relaxation, and immune function. Prinster also persuasively demonstrates how yoga can cleanse and strengthen the body, increase range of motion and flexibility, strengthen the spine, alleviate weight gain, and help patients deal with pain, fear, and anxiety. To meet the particular needs of cancer patients, the book presents 53 different poses, appropriate for different diagnoses or stages of treatment. Although Prinster notes the advantages of taking a group yoga class, this text will help readers build their own home practice (particularly useful for those who can’t locate a survivor class or would like to supplement one). In clear, compassionate language, Prinster explains her methodology and eloquently argues for yoga as a “prescription for reclaiming life and as a wellness plan for moving on to long-term health.” * Publishers Weekly, November 2014 *“A ‘must read’ for those contemplating yoga as a means to take charge of their lives after a diagnosis of cancer.” * JULIE A. ROSENBERG, M.D., RYT, pediatric oncologist and yoga instructor *“Yoga for Cancer is a look into Tari’s simple yet groundbreaking work with survivors. Her practical guide helps cancer survivors create a safe and inspiring home yoga practice. Tari’s gentle approach is complemented perfectly by her easy-to-follow guidance, making Yoga for Cancer an instrumental aspect of healing, surviving, and thriving after treatment.” * Elena Brower, coauthor of Art of Attention *“As a general oncologist, I wholeheartedly support Yoga for Cancer. Tari has successfully blended the ancient art of yoga with the contemporary art of oncology in a beautifully mindful but scientifically based manner.” * Julie J. Olin, M.D., Medical Oncology, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Vermont *“Yoga for Cancer is a yoga prescription for those touched by cancer. Tari offers support born of experience and tough love liberally sprinkled with compassion. As a writer and yoga teacher, I can say this book makes an important contribution to our collective knowledge of the healing powers of yoga.” * Linda Sparrowe, author of Yoga--A Yoga Journal Book *“Yoga for Cancer is a must read for all those living with cancer, providing the essential yoga tools with which you can construct your own wellness plan. If you are living with cancer and have tried yoga before or need an invitation to start, please read this book.” * Kate McIntyre Clere, filmmaker for Yogawoman *“Yoga for Cancer is a wonderful read and full of essential information for those living with breast cancer.” * Linda and Bob Carey, founders of The Tutu Project *“Tari’s empathy and knowledge of how the body works is a tremendous benefit to all who read Yoga for Cancer.” * Mio Fredland, M.D., psychiatrist, New York Presbyterian University Hospital *“A wonderful aid for beginners like me.” * Susan Gubar, writer of the Living with Cancer blog for the New York Times *“Tari’s passion to assist cancer survivors is outstanding. Her practice is easy to follow and helps us get over the past and move more powerfully in the future. She provides mind and body empowerment.” * Donna Wilson, RN, MSN, RRT, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center *“Tari Prinster was my Yoda-in-a-tank-top. I began taking her yoga classes simply to get back the range of motion in my arm and chest muscles, but her class taught me much more. I left stronger, inside and out. She expresses the lessons of her classes now in this book, and I’m thrilled she’ll get to touch so many more people.” * Shelley Lewis, cancer survivor and author of Five Lessons I Didn’t Learn from Breast Cancer *“Yoga for Cancer is a fact-based guide to healing. Tari explains in clear language what to do and why to unlock the healing potential of yoga.” * Stephanie M. Shorter, Ph.D., RYT, neuroscientist and founder of Mind-Body Collective *“While I was going through cancer treatments a few years ago, Tari’s classes really helped me focus on something else besides being sick. The techniques and wisdom in Yoga for Cancer are almost as good as having Tari right there with you.” * Jake Burton, founder and chairman of Burton Snowboards *“This book is a terrific guide for survivors to do a daily practice. Its goal is to make this method of yoga for cancer a beacon for every survivor in the form of a book. Tari did a wonderful job creating this step-by-step method, and survivors everywhere will benefit.” * Paulette Sherman, Psy.D., psychologist and author of The Cancer Path *“As a cancer survivor myself, I found Tari’s information on how to detoxify our body to be invaluable to my recovery. Yoga for Cancer is a useful tool for helping cancer survivors to reclaim their lives.” * Kathleen McBeth, clinical psychologist at the Cancer Patient Support Program *"An important addition to the growing collection of helpful resources for cancer survivors and yoga teachers is cancer survivor and yoga teacher Tari Prinster's recently released book, Yoga for Cancer: A Guide to Managing Side Effects, Boosting Immunity, and Improving Recovery for Cancer Survivors." * Baxter Bell, M.D., RYT *“Yoga for Cancer aids the recovering cancer patient and survivor with experience, warmth, and good sense.” * Loren M. Fishman, M.D., Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation *“This is straight talk from someone who knows. In Yoga for Cancer, Ms. Prinster effectively demonstrates why and how to use yoga to cope with cancer and cancer treatments, to lessen treatment side effects, and to enrich patients’ lives as they regain and maintain their health.Yoga for Cancer sets out to help people live longer, healthier and happier lives. Writing it is a loving act of kindness by Ms. Prinster. This book is highly recommended for cancer patients and survivors, caregivers, and yoga instructors.” * New York Journal of Books, Birgit Patty, December 2014 *“Tari Prinster’s Yoga for Cancer is written as a guide for cancer patients and survivors, but the book is a wonderful introduction to the healing powers of yoga for anyone. …A road map for creating a home yoga practice to support physical and emotional well-being.” * Her Magazine, January 2015 *“Prinster’s text hits the mark. A deep knowledge of cancer’s effects (and side effects) allows her to present the roles of both patient and practitioner with confidence. Prinster’s own words and the testimonials of survivors/students weave together personal narratives and proven principles of medicine. Yoga for Cancer is a fully integrative book that works on every level to both motivate and soothe. It deserves to be in the hands of cancer patients everywhere. What are you waiting for? Go and tell a friend!” * Alive Magazine, Helene Meurer, April 2015 *Table of ContentsForeword by Cyndi Lee Foreword by Robyn Frankel-Tiger, M.D. Preface Introduction A Wellness Plan for Survival Part 1Understanding Cancer and the Benefits of Yoga1 My Story 2 The Science of Cancer and Yoga 3 Applying the Science for Recovery and Prevention Part 2How to Build Your Own Yoga Practice4 The y4c (yoga4cancer) Methodology 5 Preparing for Your Practice 6 Creating Your Yoga Practice andLearning the Poses Starting Your Practice Taking Your Seat Finding Dynamic Stillness Taking Time to Breathe A Moment of Meditation Getting Warmed Up Starting to Move with Your Breath Arm Vinyasas Seated Hip and Spine Warm-Ups Warm-Ups on Your Back--Supine Vinyasas Warm-Ups on Hands and Knees Belly-Down Poses--Prone Vinyasas Getting Up and Down Building Strength, Bones, and Balance Standing Poses Sun Salutations Warrior Poses Balancing Acts Rest and Restore Restorative Poses Savasana/Sunset Pose 7 Sample Practices for Varying Stages of Your Treatment and Recovery In Treatment--30 Minutes In Recovery--30 Minutes Maintaining the New Normal--30 Minutes Gaining Strength--30 Minutes In Treatment--60 Minutes In Recovery--60 Minutes Maintaining the New Normal--60 MinutesGaining Strength--60 Minutes Gaining Strength--90 Minutes 8 Poses to Target Common Side Effects Lymphedema Bone Loss Weight Gain Range of Motion/Scar Tissue--Upper Body Range of Motion/Scar Tissue--Lower Body Anxiety/Insomnia Constipation/Bloating/Abdominal Obstruction Detoxification Neuropathy Incontinence Conclusion Cancer Steals Your Breath, Yoga Gives It Back Resources for Survivors, Teachers, and Caretakers Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA practice to consciously explore wakefulness, dreaming, deep sleep, and the very structure of your emotional, mental, and energy bodies • Details the simple postures of Yoga Nidra, breathing exercises and guided meditations, and tips for maintaining awareness in the liminal state that precedes sleep • Includes four complete sessions as well as pointers for creating your own sessions Known as the “yoga of conscious sleep,” Yoga Nidra is an ancient Indian practice that allows you to consciously explore the states of wakefulness, dream, and deep sleep as well as your own psyche by combining deep relaxation with attentive awareness. Through Yoga Nidra you can directly observe and understand specific physiological, emotional, and mental processes within yourself as well as experience moments of great inner tranquility, joy, and well-being. Providing a step-by-step guide to Yoga Nidra, Pierre Bonnasse details the simple postures of Yoga Nidra and includes preparatory techniques that work with breath and guided meditations to help you become an attuned observer of your inner world. Offering tips for withdrawing the senses and maintaining awareness in the liminal state that precedes sleep, the author explores how all practices in this discipline begin with a phase of relaxation and observation of breathing, followed by immersion into a very subtle awareness of the physical, energy, and mental bodies. The higher states of more advanced sessions focus on the energy body and its components: the chakras, nadis, and pranavayu, the vital breath and autonomic functions of the body. Including four complete sessions as well as pointers for creating your own, Bonnasse shows how Yoga Nidra offers stabilizing, and therapeutic effects for the body, emotions, and thoughts. Connecting Indian and Western philosophical ideas, the author shows how sleep can be an opportunity to practice a form of yoga that changes not only our nights but every minute of our days.Trade Review“Pierre Bonnasse’s Yoga Nidra Meditation is no glib self-help book about using modern yoga nidra--the practice of visualizing images, having awareness of breath, and remaining immobile while in a lucid, sleep-like state--for getting rid of stress and anxiety. It is, instead, an in-depth, wise, and elegantly written presentation of the philosophy and practice of modern yoga nidra as nothing less than a means of attaining a ‘taste of Being’ of Brahman. In this, the book itself is a kind of meditation--the kind that one may read at bedtime in order to facilitate slipping into sleep.” * Elliott Goldberg, author of The Path of Modern Yoga *“Yoga Nidra Meditation: The Sleep of the Sages is as much about waking up as it is about sleeping. Bonnasse shows us how to wake up from the sleepy dreams that dull our consciousness and keep our natural enlightened state concealed. He tells us that to go beyond the body into our awakened state, first we have to go into the body, awakening its sensations and breath. The awakened state of the body then becomes the river that takes us beyond our limited sense of self. This is an important message, beautifully expressed, and the author offers powerful, yet simple, instructions on entering the state of yoga nidra for ourselves.” * Will Johnson, author of Breathing through the Whole Body and Eyes Wide Open *Table of ContentsPREFACE Yoga Nidra: A Journey into the States of Matter, Consciousness, and the Joy of Being INTRODUCTION Indian Philosophy and the Limbs and Paths of Yoga PART I The Philosophy of Yoga Nidra The Origins of Yoga NidraStates of ConsciousnessWho Am I?The Sheaths of the BeingAwareness, Energy, Elements, and States of MatterQualities of SleepAn Approach to Indian PsychologyThe Manifestation of PhenomenaThe Energy System in YogaThe Phenomenal World and Constructions of the MindThe Unconscious MindFears, Desires, and SufferingSleep and Death PART II The Practice of Yoga Nidra Yoga Nidra as a PracticeThe Limbs of Yoga According to the Nidra TraditionPreparatory ExercisesExercises for Falling AsleepExercises for the NightExercises for Waking UpYoga of Dreams--Svapna YogaProtocol for Yoga NidraThe Art of Living in Total AwarenessFields of Application for Yoga NidraThe Ultimate SurrenderPART III Putting Yoga Nidra into Practice Four Practice Sessions Micro-Practices Session 1: Blue Star (Nilatara Yoga Nidra)Session 2: Contemplation of the Elements (Mahabhuta Visarga Yoga Nidra)Session 3: From the Sound AUM to Non-contact (Pranava Asparsha Yoga Nidra)Session 4: The Art of Dying (Marana Yoga Nidra)Practices to Inspire and Create Your SessionsAPPENDIX “The Taste of Yogic Sleep”: An Interview with Pierre Bonnasse Notes Suggested Readings Index

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Book SynopsisBring balance to your body with nourishing Ayurvedic cooking for beginners The ancient science of Ayurveda is a powerful system of holistic wellness, and its philosophy of balance is more relevant than ever today since stress is a common cause of disease. This Ayurvedic cookbook is your introduction to practicing the restorative principles of Ayurveda in your own kitchen. It''s packed with cooking techniques and recipes that can support and nurture your body''s natural regenerative powers, turning your everyday meals into opportunities for nourishment and healing. Discover an overview of Ayurveda, from its history to the present day. Find out how to identify your dosha, or body type, based on its dominant elements and qualities. Delve in to more than 100 targeted Ayurvedic recipes to help you correct imbalances within yourself with food that is fresh, seasonal, and appropriate for your typeso you can rediscover your aliveness, inner power, and inherent peace. Ayurvedic eating, simplifiedTake a quiz to find out your dosha, and follow along with a 5-step guide to Ayurvedic eating for your body''s unique requirements. Satisfying seasonal recipesDig in to a wide variety of recipes for every body type and season, including modification tips to make recipes appropriate for different doshas. 4 Weeklong meal plansLearn to eat along with nature''s cycle with a template meal plan for each season, along with a handy shopping list. Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners is your starter guide to integrating Ayurveda in to your diet.

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Book SynopsisA practical, hands-on, experienced-based guide from a military veteran turned yoga teacherBrendon Abram combines his first-hand experience with PTSD in the field and years of teaching to offer this practical guide to bringing trauma-sensitive yoga to both clinical and studio settings. Drawing on his work with military veterans, first responders, and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, he emphasizes the importance of respecting the uniqueness of every individual and demonstrates how to use the foundational principles of yoga to create a safe experience. Abram explains that basic principles of yoga bring power to the practice and that breath, mindful movement, focused awareness, and acceptance of present-moment experience form the foundation of any yoga offering.

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