Illustrates yoga positions, breathing exercises, and visualization and meditation techniques designed to help relieve stress, recover from disease, lose weight, and achieve a healthy lifestyle.
"Whether you are a complete beginner or have tried yoga in the past and wish to rekindle your interest, this invaluable, beautifully-illustrated book is the one for you. We all want to feel good about ourselves and yoga provides a way of realising our potential so that we can en…
As baby boomers pass age 50, problems with knees, ankles, and backs are leading them into lower-impact forms of fitness. The stress of career and later-in-life children also have them seeking new ways to relax. Combine these pressures and it is no surprise that yoga is increasin…
A step-by-step guide to yoga offers people over fifty a technique for relaxing, offering tips for graceful movements and breathing exercises, as well as instructions for using props such as mats and chairs during yoga.
Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out trying to feed her rapidly growing baby. Reluctantly, she joined a yoga class, and unexpectedly embarked on an eye-opening adventure. In 'Poser', Claire provides a humorous and uplifting book for anyone who has ever tried to stand o…
Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out trying to feed her rapidly growing baby. Reluctantly, she joined a yoga class, and unexpectedly embarked on an eye-opening adventure. In 'Poser', Claire provides a humorous and uplifting book for anyone who has ever tried to stand o…
Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out trying to feed her rapidly growing baby. Reluctantly, she joined a yoga class, and unexpectedly embarked on an eye-opening adventure. In 'Poser', Claire provides a humorous and uplifting book for anyone who has ever tried to stand o…
This book draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old. It celebrates what's real and shows what's illusory, describes what's uplifting and beneficial and what's flaky and dangerous--and why. …
Broad takes us on a riveting tour of yoga that goes from old archives in Calcutta to the world capitals of medical research. He unveils a burgeoning global industry that attracts true believers-- and charismatic hustlers.
Broad takes us on a riveting tour of yoga that goes from old archives in Calcutta to the world capitals of medical research. He unveils a burgeoning global industry that attracts true believers-- and charismatic hustlers. Examines the health claims of modern yoga, drawing on sc…