This book is a thought provoking book that brings yoga philosophy and postures to a wide audience. Both experienced yogi and newcomer alike will find out how to practice yoga in the pool, and how to make it more of a conscious action or 'Kriya' that will help improve not only the body, but the mind too.
Introduces an innovative total-body workout that combines the benefits of yoga and weight training, explaining how to incorporate dumbbells to work the arms, shoulders, chest, back, and core while performing more than twenty-five yoga asanas to promote body shaping and toning, control weight, enhance flexibility, sharpen concentration, develop proper breathing techniques, and more. Original. 40,000 first printing.
This guide to yoga exercises in water is for pregnant women and new mothers. Classic yoga exercises are adapted for practise in water and there are are also those specially designed to help women who wish a water birth.
After Hatha Yoga has purified the body and mind, advanced techniques of Kriya Yoga are used to awaken kundalini in a short time. Suited to all kinds of practitioners, householders or hermits, the set of nearly 20 exercises is a quick method of arousing dormant energy. The methods used here are suitable for today’s world where control of the mind is a difficult task. While in other disciplines this has to be worked at, in Kriya Yoga it follows automatically as a by product.
This book is a refreshment to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and Chocolate for A Woman's Soul, by going beyond mind and spirit nurturing to the wonderful experience of nurturing in water.As an aquatics fitness instructor and therapist for over twenty years, Juliana Larson has observed water's unmistakable power to foster bonds between women. Perhaps because water has been an archetypal female symbol for thousands of years, women find great nurturing potential in a shared aquatic environment.Water is a gentle healer, and can consequently provide significant mental, spiritual, and physical benefits as one moves one's body within it. As Larson demonstrates through this collection of true stories, a pool of water can improve one's well-being, body image, and overall fitness while working to provoke positive life change. Water Dance opens all women, young and old, to entirely new ways of nurturing themselves and one another, improving their lives in the process.
Camella is a long time practitioner of yoga and ordained Swami in the Kriya Lineage. She has been teaching Prenatal yoga for over a decade and established a Women's support group to encourage women to nurture and help one another. She lives with her two teenage sons in Northern California. This is her second book on yoga.
Yoga calms the mind, bringing a sense of peace, relaxation, and well-being as well as optimizing physical health, agility, adn strength. Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancy is an essential guide to the best exercises for each stage of pregnancy and the resources you need for a harmonious pregnancy, birth, and recovery. Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancy is: a beautifully illustrated yoga handbook for all three trimesters and the weeks following delivery the perfect resource for newcomers to yoga and invaluable for experienced students a complete collection of safe, carefully selected postures written in consultation with top yoga instructors, midwives, and doctors approved by leading pregnancy experts Wendy Teasdill is an experienced yoga teacher and the mother of three children. She began teaching yoga in Hong Kong, where she adapted her teaching to meet the needs of pregnant students. She lives in Glastonbury, England.
Written in consultation with top instructors, midwives, and doctors, this step-by-step handbook shows expectant mothers how to harness the power of yoga to enhance both their own well-being and that of their child. Each yoga posture depicted in this illustrated guide is safe and comfortable for each stage of pregnancy-from the first trimester through delivery. The positions and relaxation techniques suggested can help improve circulation, increase energy, and ease the symptoms of hormonal imbalances, and also included are tips to help speed post-natal recovery. Perfect for yoga novices as well as experienced students, this book can help harmonize body, heart, and mind during this transformative time for mom and baby.