Yoga Books

The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga - Ray Long MD FRCSC

This book is an indispensible resource for yoga teachers, physical therapists and any professional working with the body. The precise functional illustrations really helped me to learn and embody the anatomy in a practical way.
This is the only yoga book in my experience that has appeal to both my colleagues of a traditional medical background and experiential yoga teachers alike.

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The Key Poses of Hatha Yoga - Ray Long MD FRCSC

This is the second volume in the "Scientific Keys Series" from Bandha Yoga. Featuring:

- Biomechanics of Stretching
- Physiology of Stretching
- Muscle Awakening
- Fifity five highly detailed yoga poses with muscles color coded for activation and stretching and much more...

Over four hundred stunning full colour illustrations of the science of yoga with detailed explanations. High quality spiral bound for ease of use. Please feel free to view the sample chapters on-line.

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Easy Yoga Stretches - Mark Evans

Experience renewed health and vitality with instant, accessible techniques to improve your posture, enhance your breathing, and increase your suppleness.

It offers tried and tested ways to ease tension and restore energy whenever you need to. It is a clear, easy-to-follow guide with over 300 specially-commissioned step-by-step photographs. Stretching is a powerful way of ridding the body of tension and a wonderful antidote to the stresses of modern-day life.

Drawing on the ancient art of yoga, this clear simple book guides you through a series of simple stretching exercises to help you achieve a fit supple body and relieve your body of strain and tension.

This book consists of invigorating exercises that will instantly stretch, tone, revive, enhance or relax different parts of the body to leave you feeling calm, refreshed and better able to cope with stress.

After a warm-up routine, special stretches are shown for a multitude of purposes and to treat a variety of aches, pains and ailments: these include tired and aching leg revivers; abdominal tension relievers; instant fatigue revitalizers; tension and backache relievers; flexibility enhancers; waking up stretches; and exercises to relieve anxiety, aid breathing, increase blood flow and improve posture.

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Yoga for Inner Strength

by Francoise Barbara Freedman, Bel Gibbs, Doriel Hall, Emily Kelly, Jonathan Monks and Judy Smith

This comprehensive guide combines expert tuition with step-by-step photography to offer a highly effective and enjoyable series of exercises for both the body and mind.

The book begins with the classic asanas of Iyengar yoga, the most widely practiced of all yoga methods, aimed to help develop body awareness, muscle strength and flexibility. The controlled stretches and postures can be both stimulating and relaxing, bringing new levels of physical and psychological awareness and energy.

The second section on Pilates is designed to strengthen and streamline the body by working from its centre. By aligning the muscles in the back and abdominals, the torso and internal organs are strongly supported, which in turn has a revolutionary impact on posture.

The third section, Yoga-Pilates, is a unique synergy of the two - combining the stretching and cardiovascular benefits of a more dynamic yoga style with the abdominal strengthening work of Pilates to promote stamina, suppleness and balance in simple steps.

Fully illustrated with over 1500 clear colour photographs and artworks, including special at-a-glance sequences for routines to suit different times and situations, this fantastic compendium offers everyone a safe, effective and achievable way to improve their fitness and physique .

Book - 512 pages

Yoga for Inner Strength

by Jesse Chapman

Postures for your body, mind and soul. Australia's bestselling yoga author returns with her fourth book, Yoga for Inner Strength, with new cover branding and styling.

Yoga for inner strength is one of the latest developments in yoga to become popular, and forms a more intense and active practice for the yoga enthusiast. It is based on Vinyasa yoga (a 'vinyasa' is a series of rapid movements which warms up the body all over).

This very active form of yoga moves a person quickly through the poses, not holding them as long as in other styles. It is virtually guaranteed to make them sweat a lot and is not for the faint of heart, giving a real challenge to the muscles.

Vinyasa yoga became famous through celebrities such as Madonna using it to tone up after the birth of her son.
The yoga is more challenging in this book than other books, so it will greatly appeal to the ever increasing fitness market and those already practising yoga but wanting to move into something more dynamic.

Yoga

by Jesse Chapman
Yoga postures to improve your mind, body, and spirit

This is a gorgeous gift-style publication that will introduce yoga to the mainstream market. It presents a traditional, and popular, health topic to a younger, gym-fanatical market. It is a book that will inspire people to get in touch with their body, heart, and emotions and teach them to be more relaxed. With loads of sexy photos, the book covers all the key postures, including their benefits and healing potential.

Chapters include:
A Brief History of Yoga
Getting started
Yoga for Busy People
Yoga with your Partner
Warming Up
The Headstand et al
Relaxation and De-stressing
Yoga and Pregnancy

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by Jesse Chapman

Sequences for your Body and Mind

Yoga Sequences for Your Body, Mind and Soul is the sequel to the best selling introductory guide Yoga Postures for Your Body Mind and Soul.
This new title contains a more advanced collection of postures and sequences for specific needs, such as weight loss, mood and for individual sports, in the same gorgeous gift -style format.
Yoga Sequences for Your Body Mind and Soul contains groovy black and white shots of sexy bodies demonstrating the key postures, and is a must have Yoga 'workout' guide, and a great companion to Jessie's previous title.

Partner Yoga

by Jesse Chapman

A fresh approach to Yoga with over 100 sequences for your workout.

Working in partners or pairs is an effective and popular way of structuring a yoga class. People who do not know each other are brought together in a space of openness, trust and caring. A silent room of strangers suddenly transforms into a kids playground, any pretensions, doubts or fears melt away and two people become one in the yoga journey. This reflects the essence of yoga, that of union.

Traditionally yoga was taught one-on-one, from guru to disciple. Today classes are rapidly expanding to the point where breaking groups up into pairs is often essential to 'manage' the class and utilise space and time efficiently.

As a result of this common practice, more and more people are becoming interested in taking their yoga practice home to share with friends and family. Getting in touch with each other and synchronising each other's breathing brings a oneness and togetherness to the practice.

Elements of Yoga by Godfrey Devereaux

Understanding the theory and practice of yoga by guru Godfrey Devereux.

Following the success of Dynamic Yoga, 15 Minute Yoga and Hatha Yoga comes Elements of Yoga from bestselling yoga guru Godfrey Devereux.

Perfect for those who've never done yoga or are coming back to it after years away, Elements of Yoga is thorough in theory and practice and explains what yoga is, how it works and what it does.

The basic exercises are explained in full detail and with clear instructions, and are accompanied by black and white photographs.

ISBN: 9780007134441
Pages: 224

Yoga The Iyengar Way

The ancient practice of Yoga has long been regarded as an effective way of relieving emotional stress, curing bodily ills, and achieving personal equilibrium.

This is a comprehensive, practical, and authoritative guide to the method developed over the last fifty years by B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's foremost exponent of Yoga. Here is a course manual embodying the purity and precision that have always been the hallmark of Iyengar's work.

It features over 100 key postures each accompanied by clear, step-by-step photographs and detailed instructions, and graded according to level of difficulty. It incorporates advice for beginners and the less flexible, and expands on finer details of technique for more advanced students.

The book also includes sections on pranayama (breathing), meditation, and the history and philosophy of Yoga, together with progressive courses of practice and remedial programs for a range of common problems.

Fully illustrated with hundreds of photographs and written and demonstrated by students who have studied with Iyengar for more than thirty years, this book is an indispensable guide for practitioners and teachers everywhere.

How to Use Yoga

Mira Mehta

How to Use Yoga has been written by senior teacher Mira Mehta, one of today's leading exponents of yoga in the style of B. K. S. Iyengar. She presents a practical philosophy that unites body, mind, and spirit for health and fulfillment.

With over 450 color photographs, this book acts as a guide in achieving a fit and flexible body through the practice of yoga postures (asanas) and breathing techniques (pranayama).

These practices work on all body systems, stimulating circulation, toning muscles, and improving overall health. Best of all, the author makes this powerful antidote to the stresses of modern life accessible to those who want to practice at home-safely and effectively.

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Office Yoga

Enter the worlds easiest yoga book for the place we need it most: work! Renowned teacher Darrin Zeer brings this ancient Indian art to the modern-day office with a fully illustrated, easy-to-use guide offering 75 stress-relieving stretches perfect for the cube environment.
Unlike most yoga guides, Office Yoga offers a fun, accessilbe approach and is useful for both beginners and experts.

Excercises are organized by time of day and for a variety of situations--walking stretches, commute exercises, on-the-phone and at-the-copy machine streches.

Humorous and colorful illustrations by Micheal Klein enliven excerises that can be performed anywhere from the elevator to the conference room.

This handy little book will fit nicely on any desktop, and makes a great gift.

Iyengar Yoga

By Judy Smith

This full-color book written with the approval of BKS Iyengar himself is an excellent introduction to Iyengar Yoga.

A practical easy-to-follow course, with step-by-step guidance and postures chosen especially for beginners and intermediates. Special sections on therapy sessions for problem areas.

Yoga - The Path to Holistic Health

By B.K.S. Iyengar.

Hardcover Book, over 400 large format pages.
In this comprehensive and highly illustrated guide B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's leading teacher of hatha yoga, shares his unique, holistic approach. He explains how yoga can help to counter the stresses of modern living.

Designed for every level of ability, age and physical condition, there are detailed instructions for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. Clearly illustrated, step-by-step sequences explain how to perform each yoga asana, or posture, correctly.

The Heart of Yoga Developing a Personal Practice

By TKV Desikachar

In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar offers a distillation of Yoga practice as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as "a program for the spine at every level--physical, mental, and spiritual."

This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga.

Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga--poses and counterposes, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy--and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle.

A must for students and teachers alike large format 244 pages.

Power Yoga Connect to the core with Astanga Yoga

By Liz Lark

"Power Yoga" is written to be used on its own or in conjunction with class instruction.

Benefits of each one of the 45 postures are explained so that you can personalise your routine.

Instructions include guidelines for beginners, and for those with limited flexibility or physical limitations.

large format 160 pages

How to Use Yoga

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A Step-By-Step Guide to the Iyengar Method of Yoga, for Relaxation, Health and Well-Being By Mira Mehta
A practical easy to follow yoga course with step by step photographic guidance.

Learn to practice yoga safely with easy to follow postures, specially written for beginners, that work on all the bodily systems.

Softcover Book, 96 large format pages.

Intelligent Exercise with Pilates and Yoga

By Lynne Robinson & Howard Napper

This guide highlights how Yoga & Pilates are grounded in a similar awareness of the body.
Forty exercises (for beginners and intermediates) demonstrate common ground wherever possible; there are also areas where the ability to choose is put in your hands - part of the concept of intelligent exercise.

Special attention is given to the fundamentals, such as the crucial timing of the breath before, during and after each movement, and the underlying structures involved.

With workout plans to energize, relax and lengthen the body, this book heralds the beginning of a fruitful new synthesis, without threatening the integrity of either technique.

Yoga in a Box

By Stella Wella

The gentle and effective way to health and wellbeing. Innovative fully illustrated introductory guide and cards set.

Ever wondered exactly how you're supposed to remember which movement untangles your legs from that position, or where your arms are after the third kick? Well, we have too, which is why these handy little cards to go alongside your introductory book.

Both the books and the cards are beautifully illustrated with many clear, copyable pictures and step-by-step instructions.

Book - 224 pages