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Author | : Vimla Lalvani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1996-01 |
Genre | : Yoga |
ISBN | : 9780600588924 |
This beginner's guide to yoga is designed to demystify this ancient science of movement. Yoga can benefit everyone by raising energy levels, improving flexibility and muscle tone, calming the nervous system and focusing concentration. The introduction outlines the principles and history of yoga and is followed by simple instructions on breathing techniques and posture which form the basis of the "asanas" or postures. The book contains three exercise programmes taking the novice gradually through to an intermediate stage with more difficult asanas, and also includes helpful tip boxes and 300 full-colour, step-by-step photographs.
Author | : Diane Bloomfield |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2004-03-31 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0787973408 |
This highly original book introduces a fascinating new approach to yoga and Torah by combining the practice of classic yoga postures with traditional and mystical Jewish wisdom. Each chapter begins by presenting a central Jewish spiritual concept that engages readers of all faiths on a personal level. It offers an in-depth exploration of the concept, quoting and commenting on sacred Jewish texts from the Pentateuch (Five Books of Moses) and other sources. It then guides its readers with mastery and clarity through a meditation and a set of fundamental yoga postures--clearly illustrated by beautiful photographs--for both beginning and advanced yoga students. The Torah concept is actualized and experienced through the practice of these postures. Torah Yoga helps to heighten awareness of body, mind, and spirit?it illuminates the heart of Jewish wisdom.
Author | : Roxanne Kamayani Gupta |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2000-03-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1594775273 |
The yoga and classical dance traditions of India have been inextricably entwined for millennia. The exacting hand gestures, postures and movements of Indian classical dance can only be achieved through yogic concentration. Conversely, the esthetics, symmetry, and dynamism of dance enhance the practice of yoga. These two traditions, so complementary and essential to one another, are united and explicated for the first time in A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance. Twenty-five years ago Roxanne Kamayani Gupta embarked on a journey of dance and yoga, yearning to unlock their mysteries and discover their common origins. As a twenty-year-old student from America she was miraculously and mysteriously absorbed into Indian culture, became a Hindu, and began an odyssey so unusual and unique that the reader will be enchanted by its telling. Choosing the path of the dancer, Roxanne Gupta accomplished what no Western woman had done before: being accepted and trained by Indian masters and then performing in the Indian classical traditions--from the palaces of maharajas to the arts festivals of Europe and America--while at the same time achieving a doctorate in the anthropology of religion and being initiated into a number of yogic traditions. Having mastered the classical form of Kuchipudi dance and studied with teachers of the hatha and kriya yoga traditions, she brings together these two great streams of consciousness and practice. In this tantric approach to yoga and dance, expressed through the body and through a yoga of emotions, we see the traditions embodied in a manner that embraces the totality of the human experience. The result is the dance of the yogini, the sacred feminine initiatress who dances with one foot in nature and the other in the realm of the gods. With extensive photographs of innovative yoga routines, Roxanne Kamayani Gupta distills her experience into techniques for yogic study certain to assist students of all levels to achieve a dynamic, beautiful, and graceful practice.
Author | : Diana Holland |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781402709043 |
Try the best Yoga and Pilates poses to increase your strength, stamina, flexibility, and well-being. The backbends are rejuvenating - they give you energy by opening the chest and increasing suppleness along the spine. Sitting, lying, and kneeling poses on the floor allow you to isolate and work directly on particular muscle groups, from your legs to your abdominals. The twists are effective at relieving back and neck pain and headaches, as well as improving digestion. Keep your breath flowing as you move smoothly from one position to the next and soon you'll feel a sense of calm taking place while you tone your body. Create a strong and supple body while eliminating the effects of stress using 'Yogapilates', flowing, rhythmic poses that anyone can quickly learn. Look at each stage of every exercise, not just isolated highlights, in the series of spectacular, sequential color photographs. Following the way a posture progresses enables you to move through it easily and without strain. You'll even know when to breathe by following a key that tells you when to inhale, exhale, and breathe normally. This is a great way to learn both Yoga and Pilates today!
Author | : Christina Brown |
Publisher | : Godsfield |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 2017-05-25 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1841814814 |
Yoga brings not only a suppleness to the body but also a sense of spiritual and physical well-being to those who practice it. Featuring over 170 postures from the main schools of yoga, The Yoga Bible is the ultimate, comprehensive guide to practicing yoga and finding a mental and physical balance in life. The book encourages yoga beginners and experts alike to find a yoga sequence that suits their personal needs and abilities.
Author | : Judy Smith |
Publisher | : Southwater Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Hatha yoga |
ISBN | : 9781780191195 |
An easy-to-follow yoga course with visual guidance and psotures specially chosen for beginners and intermediates, from a leading yoga teacher trained and approved by BKS Iyengar, with 400 clear and beautiful photographs.
Author | : Georg Feuerstein |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1996-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 162055044X |
This is the first comprehensive and systematic analytical study of the major philosophical concepts of classical yoga. The book consists of a series of detailed discussions of the key concepts used by Patanjali in his Yoga-Sutra to describe and explain the enigma of human existence and to point a way beyond the perpetual motion of the wheel of becoming. Feuerstein's study differs from previous ones in that it seeks to free Patanjali's aphoristic statements from the accretions of later interpretations; instead, the author places the Sutra in its original context and sees it as the source of the whole edifice of classical yoga and not just as a summary of previous developments. This book will be of interest to comparative religionists, Indologists, and practitioners of yoga who wish to deepen their understanding of its philosophical basis.
Author | : Karen O'Brien-Kop |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1350230014 |
This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called 'yoga' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O'Brien-Kop also develops an alternative way of analysing the reception history of yoga that aims to decentre the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the nineteenth-century to reframe the cultural period of the 1st – 5th centuries CE using categorical markers from South Asian intellectual history. Buddhist traditions were just as concerned as Hindu traditions with meditative disciplines of yoga. By exploring the intertextuality of the Patanjalayogasastra with texts such as Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosabhasya and Asanga's Yogacarabhumisastra, this book highlights and clarifies many ideologically Buddhist concepts and practices in Patanjala yoga. Karen O'Brien-Kop demonstrates that 'classical yoga' was co-constructed systemically by both Hindu and Buddhist thinkers who were drawing on the same conceptual metaphors of the period. This analysis demystifies early yoga-meditation as a timeless 'classical' practice and locates it in a specific material context of agrarian and urban economies.
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780691017648 |
In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentration "on a Single Point," postures, and respiratory discipline; and Yoga in relation to Brahmanism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Oriental alchemy, mystical erotism, and shamanism.
Author | : Sandra Anderson |
Publisher | : Himalayan Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780893891558 |
An intelligently prepared presentation for beginners as well as readers with some yoga experience who want to enhance their practice. With a good balance of clear black & white photos and useful, informative text, the two authors (both affiliated with the Himalayan Institute) provide a beginning seq.