Yoga All-in-One For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119022725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 576 str.

Consumer Dummies

Opis

Everything you need to make yoga an integral part of your health and well-being If you want to incorporate yoga into your daily routine or ramp up what you're already doing, Yoga All-In-One For Dummies is the perfect resource This complete compendium of six separate titles features everything you need to improve your health and peace of mind with yoga, and includes additional information on, stretching, meditation, adding weights to your yoga workouts, and power yoga moves. Yoga has been shown to have numerous health benefits, ranging from better flexibility and athletic performance to lowered blood pressure and weight loss. For those who want to take control of their health and overall fitness, yoga is the perfect practice. With Yoga All-In-One For Dummies, you'll have everything you need to get started and become a master of even the toughest yoga poses and techniques.

• Find out how to incorporate yoga to foster health, happiness, and peace of mind
• Get a complete resource, featuring information from six titles that are packed with tips
• Use companion workout videos to help you master various yoga poses and techniques that are covered in the book
• Utilize tips in the book to increase balance, range of motion, flexibility, strength, and overall fitness

Take a deep breath and dive into Yoga All-In-One For Dummies to find out how you can improve your health and your happiness by incorporating yoga into your daily routine.

Spis treści

Introduction 1Book I: Getting Started with Yoga Principles 5Chapter 1: Yoga 101: Building a Foundation 7Chapter 2: Yoga and the Mind-Body Connection 19Chapter 3: Preparing for a Fruitful Yoga Practice 27Book II: Basic Yoga Techniques and Postures 41Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Yogic Breathing 43Chapter 2: Please Be Seated 57Chapter 3: Standing Tall 67Chapter 4: Steady as a Tree: Mastering Balance 83Chapter 5: Absolutely Abs 91Chapter 6: Looking at the World Upside-Down: Safe Inversion Postures 101Chapter 7: Classic Bending Floor Postures 113Chapter 8: Several Twists on the Yoga Twist 133Chapter 9: Dynamic Postures: The Rejuvenation Sequence and Sun Salutation 143Chapter 10: Basic Preparation, Compensation, and Rest Poses 151Book III: Yoga for Life 169Chapter 1: A Recommended Beginners' Routine for Men and Women 171Chapter 2: Yoga for Kids and Teens 181Chapter 3: It's Never Too Late: Yoga for Midlifers and Older Adults 199Book IV: Powering Your Way to Fitness: Power Yoga 215Chapter 1: Key Principles of Power Yoga 217Chapter 2: Preparing with Powerful Warm-Ups 227Chapter 3: Taking a Walk in the Park: A Minimum Power Routine 243Chapter 4: Following Buddha's Way: A Moderate Power Routine 265Chapter 5: Staying Young: Power Yoga for Seniors 285Book V: Yoga-ing Your Way to a Toned Body: Yoga with Weights 301Chapter 1: Introducing Yoga with Weights 303Chapter 2: Warming Up for Your Yoga with Weights Workout 319Chapter 3: From Head to Toe: The Balanced Workout 341Chapter 4: Waking Up Your Mind and Body: The Energy Workout 361Chapter 5: Exercises for Seniors 375Book VI: Ancient Practices in the Modern World: Hot Trends in Yoga 395Chapter 1: Partnering Up for Yoga 397Chapter 2: Yoga against the Wall 413Chapter 3: Yoga off the Mat, in the Heat, and outside the Box 427Book VII: Meditation, Mindfulness, and Letting Go of Stress 435Chapter 1: How Your Mind Stresses You Out and What You Can Do about It 437Chapter 2: Relaxed Like a Noodle: The Fine Art of Letting Go of Stress 457Chapter 3: Getting Acquainted with Meditation 471Chapter 4: Mindfulness Meditation: Awareness of the Here and Now 491Chapter 5: Meditating with Challenging Emotions 505Chapter 6: Cultivating Spirituality 517Index 53

O autorze

Georg Feuerstein, geb. 1947, promovierter Religionshistoriker, lehrt seit 1973 an verschiedenen Universitäten und Instituten Indologie und gilt als eine der führenden Persönlichkeiten in der Bewusstseinsforschung. Er gehört dem Vorstand der Buddha Foundation an, ist der Gründer des Yoga Research Center, Mitarbeiter des Yoga Journal und anderer Zeitschriften sowie Autor zahlreicher Bücher, von denen einige auch auf deutsch erschienen sind.