Is This Yoga?
Is This Yoga?

Author: Anya Foxen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-31

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0429750587

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This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Is This Yoga? Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Contemporary Practice recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts, traditions, social interests, and embodied practices, it raises questions of knowledge, identity, and power across time and space, including the dynamics of "East" and "West." The text is divided into three main sections: thematic concepts; histories; and topics in modern practice. This accessible guide is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching the topic for the first time, as well as yoga teachers, teacher training programs, casual and devoted practitioners, and interested non-practitioners.

I Am Yoga
I Am Yoga

Author: Susan Verde

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1613128495

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An eagle soaring among the clouds or a star twinkling in the night sky . . . a camel in the desert or a boat sailing across the sea—yoga has the power of transformation. Not only does it strengthen bodies and calm minds, but with a little imagination, it can show us that anything is possible. New York Times bestselling illustrator Peter H. Reynolds and author and certified yoga instructor Susan Verde team up again in this book about creativity and the power of self-expression. I Am Yoga encourages children to explore the world of yoga and make room in their hearts for the world beyond it. A kid-friendly guide to 17 yoga poses is included.

The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga
The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga

Author: Srivatsa Ramaswami

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Published: 2005-07-07

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781569244029

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Sri T. Krishnamacharya (1888–1989) was the most influential figure in the last 100 years in the field of yoga. Many of today's best-known yoga teachers—including his brother-in-law B. K. S. Iyengar, his son T. K. V. Desikachar, and Pattabhi Jois, founder of Ashtanga yoga—studied with him and modeled their own yoga styles after his practice and teaching. Yet, despite his renowned status, Krishnamacharya's wisdom has never before been made completely available, just as he taught it. Now, in The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga, Srivatsa Ramaswami—Krishnamacharya's longest-standing student outside his own family—presents his master's teachings of yogasanas in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon his 33 years of direct study, beginning in 1955 and continuing nearly until his teacher's death, Ramaswami presents more than nine hundred poses and variations in logically structured sequences, precisely describing Krishnamacharya's complete Vinyasakrama system. Along with every movement of each yoga posture, he covers the proper breathing techniques for each pose—something no other book also derived from Krishnamacharya's teaching does. Nearly 1,000 full-color photographs are featured in this authoritative landmark presentation of the study practiced by the "grandfather of modern yoga."

The Complete Yoga Book
The Complete Yoga Book

Author: James Hewitt

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 1409023303

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An encyclopedia of yoga practice and practical yoga as well as of the philosophy and background of yoga.

Cues for Yoga
Cues for Yoga

Author: Laura McKinzie

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-22

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578863597

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A book of yoga poses that are clearly cued for the use of yoga teachers.

Yoga of Heart
Yoga of Heart

Author: Mark Whitwell

Publisher: Lantern Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781590560686

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Truth is not something we have to seek out. It is not something that is absent and far away, requiring great effort to find. Truth is present within you as the Life that is you. In Yoga of Heart, Los Angeles-based yoga instructor Mark Whitwell takes us back to the time when yoga was first developed--to the shamanic past of the Upanishads, when yoga was practiced as a means of acknowledging, enjoying, and participating in the very source of Life. Whitwell explores the deeper tantric dimensions of hatha yoga--how yoga's purpose is to link the mind to the wonder of our own condition. He shows how hatha yoga is participation in life's polarities already in union--through the male surrender to the female principle. Yoga of Heart shows how we can forge that union of polarities within our body: above and below, front and back, left and right, male and female. Yoga of Heart focuses especially on clearing the energy centers and meridians, fostering dynamic health and allowing practitioners to create a deeper intimacy with both their partners and the energetic life forces in the universe.

Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class
Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class

Author: Bikram Choudhury

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000-08-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1585420204

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Sweat, strain, laugh, and do more for your health, body, and general well-being than you even imagined possible as you take your beginning yoga class from Bikram. For more than twenty years, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class has been among the preeminent and most beloved of all yoga guides-and now it has been revised and updated by Bikram, with virtually all-new photographs and an updated section on yoga's medical benefits. With nearly two hundred vivid instructional photographs, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is the perfect guidebook for any student of yoga, either advanced or beginner-a reference that makes Hatha yoga fun, easy, and completely understandable. Illustrated throughout with 160 black-and-white photographs by Biswanath "Bisu" Ghosh