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'An indispensable companion for all interested in yoga, both scholars and practitioners' Professor Alexis G. J. S. SandersonDespite yoga's huge global popularity, relatively little of its roots is known among practitioners. This compendium includes a wide range of texts from different schools of yoga, languages and eras: among others, key passages from the early Upanisads and the Mahabharata, and from the Tantric, Buddhist and Jaina traditions, with many pieces in scholarly translation for the first time. Covering yoga's varying definitions, its most important practices, such as posture, breath control, sensory withdrawal and meditation, as well as models of the esoteric and physical bodies, Roots of Yoga is a unique and essential source of knowledge.Translated and Edited with an Introduction by James Mallinson and Mark Singleton

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Yoga has so much to offer children, from keeping them healthy and agile, to helping them to focus, to encouraging self-awareness, a positive self-image and the beginnings of spiritual awareness. This book contains more than 40 yoga postures specially recommended as safe, beneficial, easy-to-learn and most of all fun for growing children - and their parents, too! The step-by-step photographs make the instructions really clear and easy to follow for both grown-ups and little ones.Whether you already practise yoga or are trying it for the first time, this easy-to-follow guide allows you to share yoga's many benefits with your child - whatever your level of flexibility and fitness. * Includes more than 40 yoga postures for children of all ages devised by children's yoga expert Mark Singleton* Shows how to make yoga sessions exciting, interactive and child-friendly by playing yoga games, going on "yoga adventures" and imitating animal shapes, walks and noises* Explores how regular yoga practice can help children learn more effectively, cope better with stress, reduce symptoms of illness such as asthma, and prevent posture problems in later life* Adapts traditional yogic breathing techniques and meditation into fun exercises that calm and soothe the mind, and help children to sleep at night

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