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Worried about taking up a new exercise routine? Not sure what Yoga’s all about? With 20 minutes a day, you too can feel younger, stronger and more energized.
Yoga for Women introduces
you to the concepts and basic movements of Hatha Yoga in an easy to
use format complete with illustrations to help you find the yoga
style that works for your lifestyle.
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Learn why yoga
places so much emphasis on meditation and the breath as well as how
you can use these tools to help slow the aging process and bring
yourself more energy and focus.
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Experience the
benefits of daily practice that can be done in your spare time with
little to no investment in specialized equipment or practice space
wearing everyday clothes from your closet.
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With simple step
by step instructions, learn the steps of the sun salutation as a
means of strengthening and stretching your body, internally and
externally, in as little as 10 minutes a day.
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Build strength and
endurance with a special step by step guide to exercises developed
to strengthen your core muscles, providing you with greater
stability and strength for your daily activities.
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As you learn each
exercise, discover the benefits it can offer you both on a visible
level with muscle tone and development as well as internally as each
move affects various portions of your internal functions.
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Discover how
stress affects you not only mentally, but physically, as a
significant drain on your energy supply as well as presenting an
equally significant deterrent to your health and well-being.
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Reduce your daily
stress levels with easy to learn exercises that can be done on your
living room floor, at your desk at the office or while standing in
line at the bank with no one the wiser.
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Avoid the costly
equipment and high-tech fashions at the center of marketing ploys
and learn how to substitute everyday ‘found’ items for useful props,
weights and supports to make your practice more comfortable.
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Find out the
underlying principles of Yoga including a brief history of its
development and an introduction to some of the individuals that
brought it into the modern age.
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Discover the yoga
style that works best for you with an introduction to the major
styles prevalent in the Western world today including Bikram or
‘hot’ yoga, Ashtanga yoga and Iyengar yoga. Discovering the many ways in
which yoga can benefit you is easy with this easy to read book.
With brief introductions to the history, principle figures
and major styles of yoga practiced in the modern world today,
Yoga for Women is the perfect guide for anyone thinking of
taking up yoga as a form of exercise.
Providing several exercises
designed to help you focus on your breath, this book helps
illustrate some of the important concepts behind the practice of
meditation and its tendency to reach beyond the mental state to
affect your physical well-being.
By synthesizing these ideas into their basic components, you
are able to step immediately from the world of the non-active to
that of the yoga practitioner with relative ease.
Step by step instructions on
such popular moves as the sun salutation, the plank pose and Adho
Mukha Svanasana (Downward facing Dog), help you ease into yoga
practice at your own pace while instructing you on the various
benefits each exercise can provide both internally and externally.
Each exercise is presented with illustrations to demonstrate
its basic forms and functions so that you can build up to ideal form
gradually or quickly as your body and will determine.
Suggestions on how to modify these forms are offered as well
as tips for useful props and supports that can be either
store-bought or ‘found’ items from around the house. Each exercise sequence is
presented so as to provide maximum benefit.
The Sun Salutation sequence is commonly used as a warm-up
routine as well as a stand-alone routine to help stretch and
strengthen the entire body while slowing or even reversing the aging
process by stimulating the production of natural anti-aging
chemicals within the bloodstream.
A core strength sequence is also provided to help develop the
essential muscles of the lower back and stomach areas.
More than simply providing relief to a common compliant in
the lower back and helping to firm unsightly bulges in the abdominal
area, these exercises are designed to provide the support necessary
for the modern lifestyle while releasing energy to the rest of the
body. As the exercise sequences
are introduced, discussion is offered illustrating how each exercise
functions to provide you with the multi-tasking benefits yoga has to
offer. Rather than
spending all day at the gym for these benefits, several of the
exercises provide multiple benefits all at once, saving you time,
money and effort while granting you tremendous physical, mental and
even spiritual benefits. Because the exercise
sequences are kept short, they can be easily incorporated into a
busy lifestyle and can be practiced in a minimum area of available
space. Recommendations
are made as to the most appropriate times and places to practice,
but emphasis is added that these exercises can be done at any time
of the day or night and in whatever location works best for you.
Additionally, the sequences follow logically from one
position to another, making them easy to remember and practiced
without outside aid. A great deal of attention is
given to the modern day build up of stress.
An unavoidable issue these days, stress presents perhaps one
of the most significant health challenges to modern society.
Several exercises are provided to help combat the effects of
stress both as you complete your yoga sequence as well as when you
feel stress overtaking you in your daily living activities.
By providing simple to use exercises that appear to others as
natural movements, this book helps you reduce the effects of stress
on your life and assists you in finding the path to inner peace and
tranquility. Attention is also given to
the true age-defying aspects of yoga, including its ability to
stimulate the body’s production of ACT, a natural anti-aging agent
produced in the bloodstream.
Other processes that affect the body’s aging process, as well
as specific issues caused by today’s sedentary lifestyles, are
discussed as well as how yoga can work within the same 20 minute
sequence to combat these effects.
As you progress through the exercises and readings of this
book, you will not only learn how to reduce your own stress levels,
but how to energize the body, increase mental function and slow or
sometimes reverse the aging process through simple daily practice.
As a special feature, the
link between the ancient past and the modern present is made,
enabling you to quickly understand the mindset of yoga and how this
particular attitude helps facilitate the benefits of yoga.
Understanding how Yoga entered the modern world assists in
understanding the various approaches and pose variations present
within the modern yoga world and helps you to find the class or
style that is right for your lifestyle and goals.
To further assist you, a special reference section is
included in the back of the book to help you discover further poses,
sequences and classes. Some discussion is also
given to the various aspects of the yoga lifestyle, which goes
beyond the simple exercises presented here to incorporate lifestyle
choices, diet and other aspects of daily living.
While only you can determine the level of yoga involvement
that’s right for you, this book provides you with the tools
necessary to find out how far you can go to bring your body and mind
into harmony with the world around you. In short, Yoga for Women
offers the most succinct and usable introduction to yoga available
on the market today. By
introducing you to the concepts and history behind the practice, you
are able to determine just how far you’d like yoga to take you.
At the same time, this book provides you with easy to learn
exercise sequences that can help you get into shape and develop a
strong, shapely, energized body from the very first day. Finally,
through practical suggestions and advice, Yoga for Women
helps you save money and effort that can be put to other uses by
illustrating the various ways yoga can work to help your body resist
the aging process and naturally combat illness and/or disability.
Presented in a friendly,
conversational tone, this book is meant to be easily readable, offer
quick reference to basic poses and provide well-rounded practical
and historical material to help you achieve the yoga practice that
will bring you the greatest benefit.
With plenty of reference material to back it up and further
reference material for you to explore at your own leisure or desire,
this book is the much-needed yoga entry point you’ve been searching
for. Easy to use,
understand and assimilate, Yoga for Women, with its practical
advice and money-saving tips, is the perfect book to jump-start your
entry into the yoga world, regardless of the depth or breadth you
wish to take it. |