Yoga
58 Articles & Excerpts
Why Yoga?
The Journey from the Center to the Page by Jeff Davis Why yoga? Why not another form of meditation or some form of physical exercise such as running, aerobics, or lifting weights? Meditation alone certainly heightens concentration and relaxation, but focusing directly on our thoughts drives some people crazy
Upaya: Yoga's Philosophical Principles
The Journey from the Center to the Page by Jeff Davis This book takes as its premise something simple yet potentially transformational: Yoga's philosophical principles and myriad skillful tools (upaya) can help you as a creative writer deepen your writing practice, become more versatile in your writing
What Is Yoga?
The Essentials of Yoga (Omega Institute Mind, Body, Spirit) by Ila Sarley Have you noticed how yoga seems to be turning up everywhere these days? Chances are, if you chose this book in a bookstore, it probably came off a shelf that held a number of titles on the subject.
Construct of Reality
Beyond Power Yoga by Beryl Bender Birch Every twelve years in India there is a huge spiritual festival called Kumbha Mela. Devout Hindus from all over India travel to a designated city on the Ganges River.
The Easy Does It Yoga Program of Total Fitness: How It Works and What to Expect
The American Yoga Association's Easy Does It Yoga : The Safe and Gentle Way to Health and Well-Being by Alice Christensen Easy Does It Yoga is a holistic program of simple exercise, breathing, relaxation, and meditation techniques designed to help you regain and maintain health, well-being, and independence.
Yoga and Your Lifestyle
The American Yoga Association's Easy Does It Yoga : The Safe and Gentle Way to Health and Well-Being by Alice Christensen Easy Does It Yoga is a holistic program of simple exercise, breathing, relaxation, and meditation techniques designed to help you regain and maintain health, well-being, and independence.
Getting Ready to Exercise: The Yoga Warm-up
The American Yoga Association Beginner's Manual Fully Revised and Updated by Alice Christensen Whether you are a rank beginner or have practiced for several years, it is best to warm up before every session, using the sequence in this chapter. Warming up has nothing to do with the temperature of the room or how limber your body may already feel.
What is a personal revolution, and why do we need one?
40 Days to Personal Revolution by Baron Baptiste Many of us are searching without knowing exactly what we are looking for. Some of us go on a diet to lose weight and try all kinds of programs and workshops to make ourselves feel better, or perhaps we throw ourselves into our work and seek wealth
The Birth of Jennifer Kries' Method Workout
Millions of Americans look to either yoga, dance, or Pilates to give them the long, lean, healthy body they want. Now, for the first time, there is one book that combines all three disciplines.
Why Practice Yoga?
Yoga Zone Introduction to Yoga : A Beginner's Guide to Health, Fitness, and Relaxation by Alan Finger, Al Bingham Yoga is increasingly popular these days. Everywhere you look - in magazines, on television, in the internet chat rooms, in boardrooms, and in bedrooms across the country - people are singing the praises of yoga.
Yoga for Life
Yoga Zone Yoga for Life: An Intermediate Guide to Health, Fitness, and Relaxation by Alan Finger, Al Bingham The bliss of having just finished a successful yoga practice is unlike anything else in the world. An hour of maintaining focused control over the body, breath, and mind reenergizes you, no matter how tired, stressed, or uninterested you felt at the start
Nature and You
Power Mudras: Yoga Hand Postures for Women by Sabrina Mesko, Ph.D.H. I was born a child of nature. I would look at every tree very carefully. Is it easy to climb onto? Will I break a branch and hurt the tree? I knew that if a tree branch breaks, the tree cries. I could actually feel the pain and tears of a tree.
The Yoga Baby Program
Yogababy: Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually by DeAnsin Goodson Parker, Ph.D., Karen W. Bressler Life is filled with rhythms. The planet has rhythms: the ebb and flow of the tides, the seasonal changes as Earth journeys around the Sun, the sequence of night and day as the planet spins on its axis. Your body and your baby's body have rhythms also
Creating a Baby
Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth Through Meditation, Ayurveda, and Yoga Techniques by Deepak Chopra, M.D., David Simon, M.D., Vicki Abrams A much-needed antidote to our modern, assembly-line approach to childbirth, this new book is designed as a guide for all who wish to participate in the wondrous process of bringing new life into the world. Its ideas derive from two sources
The Yoga of Menopause: Alternatives to Hormone Therapy
Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause: A Guide to Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health at Midlife and Beyond by Suza Francina Woman's lives are deeply affected by the ebb and flow of their hormones—those mysterious and miraculous molecules that deliver vital messages via the bloodstream from one part of the body to another. Indeed, our lives are patterned by the cycles of nature
Our Changing View of Aging
The New Yoga for People Over 50: A Comprehensive Guide for Midlife and Older Beginners by Suza Francina As a society and as individuals, we can expect that our notions of aging will continue to change dramatically in the years ahead. Leading pioneers in the field of mind/body medicine such as Deepak Chopra, M.D., an endocrinologist, bestselling author
Staying Focused: Work Sharper, Play Better
Real Men Do Yoga: 21 Star Athletes Reveal Their Secrets for Strength, Flexibility and Peak Performance by John Capouya I practice my breathing and focusing before every game, says Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yoga helps me calm down and helps me center my energy so I'm balanced instead of going out there and just spreading my energy all over the court.
The Master Speaks
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp Writing a book is a dangerous thing; especially when the book suggests that it has anything important or authoritative to say on the meaning of our existence. The danger lies in the human habit of accepting somebody elses ideas and desires through
The Master
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp The whole of this book is an introduction to these last chapters. Yet in a strange way, it is possibly these last two chapters that introduce the rest of the book to us in a new way. For the lives of the men dealt with here explain the teachings
Discovering The Mind
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp Just as the growing seedling cannot respond to the light until its formed leaves are thrust above ground; so human consciousness cannot assimilate and respond to certain truths until parts of the nature have matured.
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