Help your kids de-stress find inner peace & get healthy! Yoga for Children will encourage your child to step onto the mat & learn about yoga with an attentive at-home instructor--you! Whether you've taken a few classes or are new to the practice this book will show you how to use yoga to enhance your child's awareness strength & concentration. Inside you'll find more than 100 yoga poses meditations & activities that are not only easy to demonstrate but simple enough for children between the ages of two & twelve to understand & replicate. Author & children's yoga expert Lisa Flynn will also reveal how to take your sessions to the next level with tips for building fun & powerful sequences your child will love. Complete with step-by-step photographs instructional scripts & posture modifications Yoga for Children will help you teach your child to be more resilient confident & calm--one yoga practice at a time. ...

The long-awaited update of the trusted yoga book A decade since its initial publication Yoga For Dummies 2nd Edition has been updated & revised to include coverage of the newest concepts & practices that have emerged in the yoga community over the past ten years. Still maintaining its emphasis on safe approaches to the physical practice of yoga Yoga For Dummies 2nd Edition breaks down the concepts & poses making yoga easy-to-understand & easy-to-apply for everyone. Yoga has been bringing health & peace of mind to millions of people for five millennia-and it can do the same for you. Turn to Yoga For Dummies 2nd Edition to find out how to unlock your body's extraordinary potential while strengthening your mind as well. Focuses on Hatha Yoga which works primarily with the body through postures breathing exercises & other techniques Specialized yoga instructions for all ages as well as partner yoga Practicing yoga during pregnancy as well as yoga relief for women in mid-life Using restorative yoga & yoga therapy to combat chronic aches & pains Whether you're a beginner or a yoga guru Yoga For Dummies 2nd Edition gives you the tips & techniques you need to experience the health benefits of yoga as part of a complete wellness & exercise program. ...

Proven research overseen by back pain experts & written by experienced qualified yoga teachers this book's yoga is gentle simple & effective. It contains pain relief poses yoga for your daily life core posture sequences for heading & back pain prevention & progressive sequences for extra strengthening & mobilising. ...

Yoga for Life" is aimed specifically at anyone over 40 looking for a yoga practice suited to mid-life & beyond. Showing why yoga is so important for you as you age
- strengthening bones balancing hormones & even helping with mild depression
- Jo Fairley takes you through the most suitable types of yoga for older bodies & offers specific exercises so you can reap the benefits. As a yoga consumer herself Jo offers practical tips on how to find the right teacher how to create a calm environment to practice at home what to wear & even what to eat to complement your yoga. With advice on fitting yoga into your life & reinvigorating your practice if youve lapsed this is an inspirational & practical guide."

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Maya Fiennes believes passionately that yoga can be enjoyed by everyone young & old. Her unique style of yoga & meditation for modern living is based on Kundalini yoga which works on inner energy centres (' Chakras') combining poses breathing chanting & meditation for a full mind-body workout. Both deeply enjoyable & uplifting it has made her one of the most in-demand yoga instructors in the world. Whether you're fit & flexible or haven't sat cross-legged since childhood Yoga for Real Life is an easy to use guide packed full of yoga advice & insights designed to give the reader the confidence to deal with life's everyday challenges
- & really make a positive change. From de-stressing & dealing with matters of the heart to unlocking creative potential & coping with children families & aging Yoga for Real Life is an indispensable guide sumptuously illustrated with the photographs by David Loftus
- Jamie Oliver's photographer
- to getting the most from your daily routine for the rest of your life.


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A new edition of this in-depth guide to yoga based on Swami Vishnu-Devanandas five yoga principles. Develop your mental & physical potential nourish yourself with simple wholesome food & begin to take control of the stresses & tensions of everyday living by following Swami Vishnu-Devanandas five yoga principles: exercise breathing relaxation diet & meditation. All the yoga essentials are covered in simple easy-to-follow step-by-steps: from the Sun Salutation & 12 basic asana to diet & meditation techniques. For yoga enthusiasts whatever their age or fitness level (Content taken from the previous edition of Yoga Mind & Body")." ...

Focusing on creating a conscious union with the growing baby in utero this detailed guide introduces a practice of weekly meditations yoga & affirmations that reflect the developmental & physiological changes taking place both inside & outside the womb. The book enhances the experience of pregnancy & prepares mothers physically emotionally & spiritually for child birth & motherhood. Beginners to yoga as well as regular practitioners will learn unique approaches & proper techniques that initiate a healthful purposeful connection with the mother's own body & with their unborn child. ...

A sharply funny travelogue from a fantastic travel writer. Lucy Edge tells the story of her personal quest for serenity & yogic flexibility through the ashrams & gurus of India. After over a decade spent working & drinking too much in the world of advertising Lucy decided she had to leave town for an altogether more spiritual & well meaningful way of life
- & whilst she was at it she could acquire a newly lithe & supple body. Would she come home looking like Christy Turlington & pick up some Buddhist serenity on the way? Or did something much funnier interesting & complicated happen? Did she fall in love
- with a place & its people? A divine comedy of the Western obsession with life's deeper meaning a yogic experiment & a love letter to India this is a very funny book from a wonderful travel writer.

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Written almost two millennia ago Patanjalis work focuses on how to attain the direct experience & realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind & consciousness & on the technique of meditation it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India & more recently in the West. Edwin F. Bryants translation is clear direct & exact. Each sutra is presented as Sanskrit text transliteration & precise English translation & is followed by Bryants authoritative commentary which is grounded in the classical understanding of yoga & conveys the meaning & depth of the sutras in a user-friendly manner for a Western readership without compromising scholarly rigor or traditional authenticity. In addition Bryant presents insights drawn from the primary traditional commentaries on the sutras written over the last millennium & a half. ...

Learn how yoga can be the key to ageless beauty with this awesome reference. Written in a warm fun & friendly voice with easy-to-follow drawings that guide readers through poses to reduce wrinkles diminish fatigue & more. It also

Includes:: safety tips modifications to the poses mini-workouts & advice on living like a yogini. Is yoga a fountain of youth? Amy Luwis creator of the popular Rescue Girl website & author of Yoga to the Rescue" shows how it can be the magical key to ageless beauty inside & out. Using a warm fun & friendly voice & witty easy-to-follow drawings Luwis guides readers through poses that help diminish wrinkles lessen varicose veins improve posture; reduce fatigue diminish depression & strengthen the mind & body. Safety tips modifications to the poses mini-workouts & advice on living like a yogini make this an awesome reference."

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