Revolutionary Core Workouts for a Stronger, Flatter Stomach
Your Best Abs is revolutionary in its approach, but the research behind its benefits has been around for years. The premise is simple: Train the abs as they are designed to work, not by doing crunches and sit-ups, but by properly bracing the core. The purpose of the abs is to resist spinal extension-to brace and hold, not to push and pull.
A woman's guide to power and freedom through yoga and tantra Revised and Updated Edition, Includes New Preface: 'Author's Warning'
In this courageous and radical book, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli explores the sexual politics of yoga from a perspective that sees womens spiritual transformation as the most revolutionary force.
Develop Your Knowledge of Yoga Principles and Practice
An accessible guide on the history, anatomy and philosophy behind yoga, showing how yoga students can develop and grow their personal practice. By offering students and teacher trainees guidance on how to move on to the next stage in their learning, this practical companion helps to deepen their understanding of holistic yoga ......
Yoga Sequences is a compilation of Vani Devis previous three yoga books, with additional sequences. Drawing on the authors decades of experience teaching yoga to students of all levels of skill (including prisoners, children, and adults with special needs), these sequences are practical, easy-to-follow and will provide inspiration for every ......
Shared experiences of Ashtanga yoga, pregnancy, birth & motherhood
Yoga Sadhana for Mothers is far more than just a how-to yoga manual. Although the book includes clear, illustrated guidelines on modifying the Ashtanga yoga primary series during pregnancy, at its heart are intimate first-hand accounts from prominent members of the Ashtanga yoga community of their experiences of conception, pregnancy, birth and ......
As the practice of yoga continues to flourish within Western Black and Brown communities, this transformative, Black culturally centered toolkit highlights the barriers that hinder access to yoga. It takes core aspects of yoga philosophy and contextualizes it within Black cultural norms, religious taboos, and historical healing practices, and ......
An essential travel companion for every yoga enthusiast. Illustrated with original, evocative watercolours plus 123 line-drawn yoga postures, to help you follow the yoga sequences inside. Includes tailored sequences for travel issues such as jet-lag. Written by an experienced yoga teacher and traveller.
Many people are drawn to a physical yoga practice as a way to reduce stress and move more. However, because most of their time is spent at a desk, their bodies are often not prepared to perform many of the traditional physical poses. Additionally, naturally flexible people will be drawn to the practice, because it comes easily to them. ......
Yoga Biomechanics: Stretching Redefined provides a unique evidence-based exploration into the complexities of human movement and what a safe, effective yoga practice entails. The emphasis is taken off flexibility and centered around a narrative of body tissue adaptation. Conventional approaches to modern yoga are examined through a biomechanist's ......