Highly reviewed yoga books

This book includes a comprehensive guide on the direction of focus and meditation for the study and practice of Raja Yoga. The ancient Sutras include teachings on morality, mindfulness, and physical postures. The Sutras are described here in the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and Sri Swami Satchidananda, one of the most known and admired contemporary yoga masters, with translation, transliteration, and commentary. Sri Swamiji gives pragmatic guidance to master the mind and attain physical, cognitive and emotional equilibrium based on his own experience.

I Am Yoga convey feelings by clear expression and find harmony inside in an open meditation exercise. Wonder at the natural world’s glory and beauty. Perfect for classroom and bedtime, the story by Susan Verde and the vivid aquarelle drawings by Peter H. Reynolds take the concepts of mindfulness to a child-friendly level. Featuring an author’s statement on the value of mindfulness and children’s guided therapy, I Am Peace could make readers of all ages feel balanced and renewed.

If you think you want to go back to a Himalayan cave to seek the salvation offered by yoga, think again. Judith Hanson Lasater expands the concept of yoga beyond his common poses and breathing exercises in this second version of LivingYour Yoga to incorporate the activities of everyday life as means of learning. Use the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita’s time-honored teachings to direct the path, she uses off-the-mat exercises to help you to improve your interactions with yourself, your family and friends, and the world around you. She integrates her inspirational and pragmatic understanding with her experiences as a child, sister, mother, friend, wife, and instructor of yoga. The result: a modern yoga that encourages you to embrace spirituality into your life.

Colleen Saidman Yee shares the amazing story of how she discovered herself in the transformative force of meditation, from a troubled young girl with a risky drug addiction to a globe-trotting fashion designer to First Lady of Yoga. The very first day that Saidman Yee attended a yoga lesson, she left with the feeling that something inside her had changed. She felt so alive that yoga became the core of her life, allowing her to discover her own self and voice. Saidman Yee has been through a lot, dealing with a seizure disorder, struggling with relationships ending up in divorces, and mourning a beloved ones, but on the way discovered that yoga provided him the keys to the biggest struggles in life. Approachable, sensitive, funny and candid, Saidman Yee shares her private experiences with compassion and delivers pragmatic advices about how to adapt yoga to annoyances and stressful situations. Specific sequences of yoga accompany each page, covering everything from hormonal mood changes to detoxification, insomnia, stress, and increased trust and strength. Yoga for Life provides strategies to bring consciousness to any aspect of your physical and spiritual life, helping you to feel fully alive and experience inner peace.

Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha is globally known as one of today’s most comprehensive yoga manuals. This expanded and revised edition includes simple examples of the chakra knowledge step-by-step. To use by physicians and yoga practitioners, a new therapy checklist has been included, integrating updated data from yoga studies. This version effectively takes to the level of a college textbook the practice of yoga.

The best guide on how to use yoga to support your valuable physical, psychological, and emotional health. Everybody needs to age with as much energy and dignity as possible, and now several reports affirm what most yoga practitioners have believed for a long time: as you get older, yoga practice has a profound impact on physical and mental health. Yoga for Healthy Aging is the best guide for how to use yoga to cultivate a lifetime of physical, psychological and emotional wellness. Among other topics, renowned yoga instructors Baxter Bell, MD, and Nina Zolotow explain how yoga can tackle problems relating to energy, mobility, coordination, endurance, heart and stress control. Yoga for Heatlhy Aging is a mental and spiritual well-being yoga toolbox that will set you up for a lifetime.

This book presents a well-rounded approach to understanding hatha yoga. Ray Long explains the practice and positive effects of hatha yoga using three-dimensional anatomical diagrams. Clear explanations of anatomy and physiology show the agonist, antagonist, and synergistic muscles that come into action in each pose.

Most yoga instructors are good teachers, but generally struggle with the yoga business. This can be difficult to find the balance between promoting yoga with the community and pursuing an ethical enterprise. The Yogi Entrepreneur is the ultimate guide for developing your yoga business. If you’re an experienced instructor, trying to broaden your student base, a new teacher fresh from yoga teacher practice, this guide will help you. The Yogi Entrepreneur provides chapters on being a yoga instructor, marketing and branding, ethics, hosting retreats and seminars, creating a blog, handling social networks, and all critical skills you will need. The Yogi Entrepreneur has been included in hundreds of worldwide teacher training courses and has helped thousands of yoga instructors discover their audience, identify their style, and teach yoga successfully with their personal approach. The easy-to-apply methods described in these pages will help you reach your true potential as an instructor of yoga.

B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health encompasses BKS Iyengar’s full teachings on brain, body, and nutrition, and is ideal for all levels of yoga ability, gender, and physical fitness. Fully articulated throughout with stunning 360-degree views of traditional Iyengar asanas, B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health provides a 20-week curriculum that introduces beginners to the most commonly performed form of yoga in the world, uniquely formulated exercises to help cure more than 80 popular illnesses, and all classic asanas illustrated and supervised by B.K.S. Iyengar himself.

Chair yoga is just as it feels like: you can enjoy the benefits of yoga while sitting down ! In Chair Yoga, professional yoga trainer Kristin McGee guides you through 100 yoga poses and workouts that are simple enough for all grades to remain engaged, safe, and happy. Divided into chapters grouped by section of the body, each workout contains step-by-step directions and photos that are easy to follow. For Chair Yoga now, everyone will reap the incredible physical and mental health benefits of just a few movements a day.