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Recommended reading on Yoga
Back Care Basics: A Doctor’s Gentle Yoga Program for Back and Neck Pain Relief
Mary Schatz
This clearly written book has helped many people free themselves of chronic back and neck pain. Dr. Schatz offers simple, practical techniques to correct alignment problems, cope with stress, and help you become more aware of the early warning signs of painful flare-ups. I use many of her techniques with my clients who are in pain.
B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health
B.K.S. Iyengar
This definitive resource on the Iyengar system by yoga master, B.K.S.Iyengar, is illustrated with color photographs and filled with detailed instructions for postures in all levels of difficulty. The strength of this book is its photographs and texts, which illustrate and explain how to perform yoga postures correctly and safely and outline the health benefits of all postures. Includes sections on: props that help beginner develop the necessary flexibility and strength; yoga therapy; and a 20-week course that slowly fosters and develops muscle tone, flexibility and inner peace.
Moving Toward Balance: Eight Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee
Rodney Yee
Internationally renowned yoga instructor Rodney Yee offers yoga practitioners a two-month regimen that they can adopt as a home practice. Anatomy lessons, advice on breathing, photographs and detailed directions enhance this friendly guide. Easy to follow, clearly written.
The New Yoga For People Over 50: A Comprehensive Guide for Midlife and Older Beginners
Suza Francina
Using the Iyengar system of precise bodily alignment, this fully illustrated book teaches how to begin and maintain a yoga program for increasing the health of every system of the body. Not just for those over 50! This is a useful book for beginners at any age.
Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga For Stressful Times
Judith Lasater
Experience the best rest of your life with restorative yoga. Relax and Renew contains a general sequence of supported yoga poses and breathing methods to heal and counter the effects of chronic stress, as well as programs for back pain, headaches, insomnia, jet lag, and breathing problems. There is a special section for women during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause as well as a guide to using props and a section on resources. Comprehensive and well-illustrated.
Thirty Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers
Judith Lasater
Judith Lasater draws on her wealth of yoga practice and teaching experience as well as her training as a physical therapist to present this inclusive guidebook for beginning students. Sequences are presented with photographic charts for easy visual reference; resources for further study are included.
The Woman’s Book of Yoga and Health: A Lifelong Guide to Wellness
Linda Sparrowe and Patricia Walden
Sparrowe, former editor of Yoga Journal, and Walden, a widely respected senior teacher, have created this well-illustrated book which focuses on specific postures and sequences for women. Included are health-enhancing yoga sequences for bringing balance to the body, chapters on befriending the body, honoring the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, dealing with difficult emotions and aging.
Yoga, The Iyengar Way: The New Definitive Illustrated Guide
Silva, Mira & Shyam Mehta
A comprehensive, practical, and authoritative guide to the method developed by B.K.S. Iyengar. Provides 100 key postures with detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs.
