Yoga for Dummies
Yoga for Dummies Books
- ISBN13: 9780764551178
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Product Description
Yoga is not a fad. It has been nearly in the United States for over a hundred years and has a history of approximately five millennia. It is clearly here to stay. Yoga has brought health and peace of mind to millions of people. It can do the same for you.
The benefits of Yoga are many. When adopted as a lifestyle, Yoga extends over the entire day. Find out how this can be done and why Yoga is so often loved by people who are
Yoga For Dummies guides you slowly, step by step, into the treasure house of Yoga. And it is a fabulous treasure house! You will find out how to unlock your body’s extraordinary potential and join up your mind to do so, and in the administer strengthen your mind as well. This book covers the following topics and more:
The focus on this book is on Hatha (pronounced haht-ha) Yoga, which is that branch of Yoga that works primarily with the body through postures, breathing exercises, and other similar techniques. When necessary, the book provides helpful photos or illustrations to help you better know the exercises or postures.
One author (Georg Feuerstein) is internationally recognized as a leading expert on the Yoga tradition and has authored many seminal works on it. The other author (Larry Payne) has a thriving do as a Yoga teacher in Los Angeles, where he teaches and responds to his clients’ specific health challenges. In this book, their combined 55 years of experience have merged to make a reliable and user-friendly introductory book that can also serve you as a beginner’s reference work on an ongoing basis.Amazon.com Review
Yoga for Dummies proves that this 5,000-year-ancient Indian discipline can be all things to all people–the athlete striving for more-limber limbs, the stressed-out professional needing mental cool, peace, and clarity; the pregnant mom-to-be looking to keep herself toned and her emotions balanced, the spiritual seeker wanting to access the higher planes of consciousness.
Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., and Larry Payne, Ph.D., are internationally recognized yoga experts. After explaining how to prepare your body and mind for yoga–including warnings about how to do safely–they jump honest into the postures (asanas), instructions for which make up the meat of book (relaxation, breathing, movement, sequencing, compensation, sitting). Feuerstein and Payne carefully and in fantastic detail lead the reader through every step, although they do advise first-timers to supplement the book with actual classes until they have the basics down. Throughout the book, clear explanations accompany black-and-white photos and drawings. (Unfortunately, following the written instructions is hard enough when your feet are in the air or your head’s down by your ankles, and the book would have been improved if the pictures everlastingly appeared on the same page as their instructions.)
Readers then learn about tailoring a yoga program to their needs; using props; involved “Yoga Throughout the Day”; incorporating yoga into sex, meditation, menopause, and pregnancy; using yoga to handle back problems and PMS; and involved yoga with kids. The book also covers yogic ethics, philosophy, and resources. It’s not all asanas and pranas, though–Yoga for Dummies is dotted with the humor characteristic of the For Dummies run (a section explaining that the ego is the ultimate source of stress is titled “Wherever ego, I go”) and matter-of-fact advice (the Forgiving Limbs maneuver allows you to bend your legs and arms a bit rather than try to fully extend them, so that you can perform postures you’re not yet quite limber enough for). This is both an brilliant beginner’s guide and a excellent reference for more advanced yoginis who want a brush-up course. –Stefanie Durbin
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Isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Rating: 1 / 5
On pp. 30 of this book the authors write: “a full-fledged, safe Yoga routine really requires proper instruction from a qualified teacher.” In other words, you’re paying 15 bucks for a book marketed to beginners… which beginners can’t use! [...].
Rating: 1 / 5
I ordered what I plotting was a full size intro to yoga book and got the pee wee version for elves. I had been breathlessly coming up for my full size edition to arrive in the mail because I was so excited to be starting yoga. As I held the pitifully small thing in my hand I got so depressed because it reminded me of some terrible relationships i’ve had in the past–huge promises and nothing to back it up with. I binged on a quart of dulce de leche ice cream and a dozen black bottom cupcakes to try to numb my pain. These evil satanic deceivers must be stopped.
Rating: 1 / 5
The product description doesn’t make it evident, but this is a minuscule book with barely 100 pages. It has very small in rank helpful to a person wanting to learn about yoga. Get the full-size book instead.
Rating: 1 / 5
A few years ago, I was in a Yoga class, but after tender to a new state, I lost the thread of fixed exercise. I picked this book because I like Yoga, but I don’t remember the proper stances and sought after a basic book for getting ongoing.
What I didn’t want was a dissertation on breathing, and why I have to eliminate stress from my life, and how many different forms of Yoga there are (you’re only going to be teaching stances for one type of Yoga, so how about we dispense with the history and get on to the exercise?)
This book was choked with new-age mysticism and positive thought pap. As I read it, I may possibly feel the author trying to rein in his “crystals and incense” rhetoric so that he didn’t lose people like me. At one top, I just ongoing flipping through the pages, hoping to find a picture of a person that might mark the beginning of actual in rank. You know what I found? A picture of a person lying down, and a description of how to rest properly.
I don’t mean to sound heartless, but I know how to lie down. I’ve been doing it for most of my life. I’m well practiced in that. I follow a religious regimen of lying down at least once every night, and I don’t remember ever getting it incorrect. Can we get to the freaking exercise!
Rating: 2 / 5