- The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom Edited by Kelsie Besaw
This is a nice compact book filled with great photos and quotes. From the Bhagavad Gita to Yoda with some Einstein, Mother Theresa and Jennifer Aniston in-between, this book nicely offers quotes to inspire, affirm, ground and elevate you.
This book would make a nice gift for the yoga enthusiast in your life!
- Anatomy, Stretching & Training for Yoga: A Step-By_Step Guide To Getting The Most From Your Yoga Practice by Amy Auman And Lisa Purcell
This is a nice companion to your yoga practice. It will heighten your anatomical understanding and how the highlighted muscle groups are affected by each asana. Using both a live model and computer generated one, which has muscles highlighted, this book enlightens the physical, mental and energetic connections to the poses. I really like the computer model’s visual musculature and the side boxes that include benefits and contraindications of the effects of the poses and the insight into fostering inner peace throughout the practice. The descriptions are clear and helpful and a special side note, I really appreciated how the model had good eye position in the poses. That is such an important detail for me. A++! This is a very nice anatomy book with a yoga focus.
I highly recommend this book for learning the anatomy of yoga poses. It is well organized and clearly presented.
- Yoga Twists and Turns: 50 Sequences to Take Your Practice to the Next Level by Emma Silverman
This is a great book for yoga teachers and an essential guide for yoga teachers and for those who want to build a home practice. The sequences are clearly and logically laid out with an exact series of poses designed to warm up the body in preparation for the peak (the big huzzah!) pose at the end. These sequences are the core practice and it is offered up for the practitioner to add sun salutations at the beginning or with-in the body of the sequence, when wanted, and then to cool down either with the included restorative sequence or with another cool down series and finally to add savasana. The Peak Pose class uses various warm up exercises to prepare the body for a complex or unfamiliar pose, or to deepen the investigation into a pose to enhance its experience. Each sequence is accompanied, step-by-step, by very nicely photographed sequence. I highly recommend this book as a great book for learning sequencing and practice creation.
- Yoga for Women by Karin Björkegren
This yoga book is focused on how yoga can help women gain strength and flexibility in every stage of their lives and how yoga promotes a fit lifestyle. This is a beautiful pictorial time line of yoga that includes gorgeous textured and creative photography. It takes the reader from the teens years to the senior years and offers poses, clearly and concisely described, to aid in such things as PMS and menopause, pregnancy and childbirth and how to age gracefully.
This is a lovely coffee table like book. The photography is arty and captivating. It would make a beautiful gift for the yoga lover in your life.
Thank you to Skyhorse Publishing for sending me these books. All opinions are my own.
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