Other Yoga Books

Back Care Basics : A Doctor's Gentle Yoga Program for Back and Neck Pain Relief

Back Care Basics: A Doctor's Gentle Yoga Program For Back And Neck Pain Relief offers a gentle and effective approach to back rehabilitation without drugs or surgery. Using the therapeutic techniques of Iyengar style yoga, Dr. Mary Schatz's program encourages both positive health practices and a positive outlook. Readers will learn simple and practical ways to heal their back, restructure their bodies, and with stress. Readers will become more sensitive to early warning signs of an impending "back attack" and learn what to do to ward it off. Readers will learn how their daily activities may be hurting their back and how to modify them to prevent pain and injury. Back Care Basics is "must" reading for anyone with chronic back pain, and an invaluable (and popular) addition to any community library collection.

How to Use Yoga

A practical, easy-to-follow yoga course, with step-by-step photographic guidance, written by one of the leading exponents of the Iyengar method of yoga today. Mira Mehta was one of the authors of Yoga: The Iyengar Way. You will find the same quality of photographs and instruction which you can use a guide for your yoga practice. Beginners and advanced experienced yoga practitioners will love the book. Counteract the stresses of modern life and acheive health and fulfillment through the timeless practical philosophy of the Iyengar method of yoga, the form of yoga most practiced today.

Inner Beauty, Inner Light

In matchless prose and stunning photos, Frederick Leboyer discusses the importance and beauty of yoga for pregnant women. He shows how they can use yoga to move toward healthy and joyous childbearing and how the health benefits will far outlast the birthing process--for both mother and child. 100 photos.

Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life

If you think that you have to excape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life - all of them - as practice.

Relax and Renew

Relax & Renew is the first to devote itself entirely to restorative yoga, providing a series of yoga postures designed to relieve chronic stress. Exercise programs are introduced with a series of insights and stipulations which instructs on yoga techniques for everything from insomnia to basic relaxation.

The New Yoga for People Over 50

Iyengar yoga expert Suza Francina describes and illustrates how older beginners can adapt the practice of yoga to their special needs. Through photos of older teachers and students, this comprehensive guide demonstrates how to progress from gentle floor and chair stretching exercises to vital weight-bearing, standing and inverted postures.

The Runner's Yoga Book

Based on the teachings of yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar, this comprehensive fitness program will improve performance and prevent common injuries by teaching the athlete how to: develop body awarness,balancee flexibility and strength, improve concentration, increase energy, manage stress. With over 400 photographs and illustrations showing students at various levels of expertise, this book is designed to give both the beginning and more advanced practitioner a satisfying experience of yoga.

Yoga for Children

Authors: Swati Chanchani, Rajiv Chanchani. The authors fullfill the need for a good book on yoga for children. The roots of yoga in mythology including tales to bring out the quality of the poses. They also stress the links of the postures to the natural world of trees, mountains, flowers, and animals. The moral values of yoga such as non-violence, truth, self-discipline, simplicity and contentment. The detail is explained with emphasis on gometrical forms can relate to and with a depth that even adult yoga practitioners can benefit from, you will find this book enjoyable and appealing.

Yoga: the Iyengar Way

Authors: Silva Mehta, Mira Mehta, Shyam Mehta. A comprehensive, practical, and authoritative guide to the method developed by Iyengar. 100 key postures with detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs.

Yogi Bare : Naked Truth from America's Leading Yoga Teachers

America's foremost "how to" yoga experts share intimate moments of their lives in Yogi Bare: Naked Truth from America's Leading Yoga Teachers. Through twenty engaging and insightful interviews, provocative questions are posed and explored, as you embark on an enjoyable and spiritual journey with yoga's premier "how come" book.

Contains interviews with Patricia Walden, Julie Lawrence, Rodney Yee, Gabriel Halpern, Gabriella Giubilaro, and various other yoga teachers.

You can read excerpts of the book on the website of the publisher.