Yoga Fitness

Yoga instructor, nutrition expert, and healthy-living blogger Elise Marie Collins has compiled a comprehensive look at what "Super Agers" are doing to live long and prosper. Learn about movement at any age, brain fitness and memory maintenance, foods, vitamin and mineral content cues and clues, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease and reverse symptoms of illness. In this revolutionary book, Collins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, telling us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span.

Maren and Jamie Showkeir's unprecedented book brings into crisp focus the full range of yoga's rich, transformational benefits. Based on the traditional Eight Limbs of Yoga (the postures, or asanas, are only one limb), it offers straightforward, practical suggestions on how to integrate yoga's ancient philosophy and beautiful spiritual principles into the modern workplace. They explain each of yoga's tenets and show how a broad, steadfast practice leads to a productive, creative, and energizing work environment.

In this beginner's guide to chair yoga, you will learn all about how to do yoga without getting out of your seat. It also covers in detail, the different seated yoga poses and stretches that can help improve your flexibility, mobility, balance, and strength.

"Yoga On the Go" is an instructional guide designed for busy individuals who seek to integrate yoga into their daily lives, no matter where they are. The book emphasizes the importance of creating a flexible, portable, and personalized yoga practice that fits seamlessly into a hectic schedule.

This wonderful full-scale pocket guide from Earth Lodge beautifully illustrates and describes 36 mudras, or symbolic hand gestures, that you can use to align your spirit with your intentions and empower prayer. Mudras are used throughout the world in daily spiritual practices. Studies show that they have the same effect on the brain as language: when you use a mudra, you activate a specific thought or intent, and that thought carries energy, working like a radio signal to tune your vibration for fulfillment and manifestation.

What happens when we die? How does our present life shape our future? What part of us survives death? From Death to Birth takes us on a vivid tour of the soul's journey from one lifetime to another, revealing little known or understood aspects of spiritual life along the way. Through a series of lively stories drawn from the ancient scriptures and his own experience, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait reveals the truth about karma, how we create it, why it becomes our destiny, and how we can use it to shape the future of our dreams.

In Move, Connect, Play, founder of AcroYoga International Jason Nemer shares the core principles of AcroYoga for athletic performance and for life, as well as 10 key areas of training (strength, flexibility, technique, balance, breath, gravity, relationships, mental, emotional, and sustainability). He also offers specific exercises and routines for how to train safely and effectively in each area.

Sitting in the Middle of Chaos is a therapeutic programme to help listeners accept their flaws and discover a more fulfilling way of living, featuring a foreword by Cara Delevingne. Colin dispels the myth that yoga is just about movements, poses and wearing expensive leggings. Instead he explores how ancient yoga philosophy and teachings can easily be applied to and benefit all areas of our modern lives.

Visualizations are powerful ways to focus the mind for meditation. Designed both for beginning and experienced meditators, Meditations to Awaken Superconsciousness provides easy, gentle guidance to help beginners quickly feel the benefits of meditation and experienced practitioners break through blocks and deepen their experience.

Bring your yoga class sequencing to a new level with the inclusion of yoga mythology! This book gives you the methodology for creating single-asana inclusions, longer partial-class sequences, and and entire one-hour YM themed vinyasas, utilizing ancient yogic myths and fascinating stories. Three different approaches to YM presentations are discussed, along with samples of sequence planning notes.

This easy to follow class is suitable for those with little or no previous experience of yoga. It has been created by Sue Fuller, a leading yoga professional and resident yoga expert at Natural Health Magazine, to offer a practical introduction to basic yoga breathing techniques. When practiced regularly these techniques will improve levels of health and vitality, encourage relaxation, reduce anxiety and increase mental focus.

Die besten Übungen und Geschichten aus dem Yoga. Finde deinen Weg der Gesundheit, Entspannung und Spiritualität. Yoga hält unseren Körper beweglich, kräftigt unsere Muskeln, aktiviert unsere Lebensenergie und macht unseren Geist positiv. Yoga hilft uns, das Leben zu meistern, unsere Gesundheit zu bewahren und das Glück in unserer Welt wachsen zu lassen. Yoga ist so unermesslich, dass man es sich als normaler Mensch kaum vorstellen kann.

Embark on a mystical journey unlike any other in "The Yogi's Quest: Secrets of the Seven Yogis." As you stumble upon a mysterious treasure box in a secluded park, little do you know that it holds the key to an adventure of a lifetime. Join our protagonist as they set out from the Gangotri Glacier, tracing the sacred Ganges River to uncover the hidden teachings of the legendary yogis. Each challenge along the riverbanks brings you closer to unlocking the secrets of the ancient practice.

Mudras are ancient yoga techniques for your hands. They are extremely easy to do, but very powerful and instantly effective and can bring you health, wealth, balance, success, and happiness. How? By liberating the energy locked within your body—the energy channels called nadis and energy centers called chakras—and directing it to help you meet your goals and deal with the problems of everyday life. By combining the ancient technique of Mudras with the principles of astrology, you are magnifying their beneficial effects and improving your life on all levels.

Fitness Academy descrive la scienza che c'è dietro la pratica dello Yoga attraverso le illustrazioni e combina la sua conoscenza medica dell'anatomia con la sua comprensione dello Yoga per mostrare le strutture anatomiche che sono le chiavi per la vostra pratica. Il libro riunisce arte, scienza e spiritualità mentre espone le forze al lavoro durante la pratica Yoga. Le illustrazioni rivelano il ruolo che gioca ogni muscolo e organo nella pratica dello Yoga.

Con chiarezza espositiva, uno stile fluido ma coinvolgente condito con un pizzico di ironia, il lettore viene guidato in un processo di “Risveglio”, di progressiva presa di consapevolezza dei meccanismi mentali ed emotivi con cui la società plasma gli individui condannandoli all'infelicità.

YOGA NIDRA IST EINE DER WIRKUNGSVOLLSTEN TIEFENENTSPANNUNGSMETHODEN zum Auflösen von körperlichen, emotionalen und mentalen Verspannungen. Seine Wurzeln liegen in Indien und beruhen auf der tantrischen Wissenschaft und jahrtausende alten Schriften, den Yoga Sutras. YOGA NIDRA ist FÜR JEDEN GEEIGNET. Er sind keine Vorkenntnisse notwendig, weder im Yoga noch in der Meditation. Es gib nichts weiter zu tun als sich in eine bequeme Liegeposition in Rückenlage zu begeben, meiner Stimme zu folgen und dabei in sich hineinzuspüren.

Help yoga students to access a deep state of relaxation with this guided meditation handbook. Offering yoga teachers scripts for guided meditations, students can learn how to cultivate positive emotions and let go of negative ones. Including practical information on how to set the scene for meditation in a yoga class, using music, lighting and props, the book also advises on how to introduce a meditation practice to yoga students. It explores the benefits of meditation for people from all walks of life, including sleep-deprived parents and those suffering from post-traumatic stress.

Yoga is thought of by many as a fitness hobby—a gentler alternative to SoulCycle and CrossFit—but its underlying philosophy offers much more than a good workout. Yoga can relieve stress, focus the mind, and provide a path to reinvention, resilience, and a meaningful life. In Beyond the Mat, physician, executive, and yoga instructor Julie Rosenberg reveals how the essential lessons of the four-thousand-year-old Yoga Sutras contain a relevant framework in which to thrive both personally and professionally.

Insomnia is reaching epidemic proportions: more than half of us will suffer from a sleep problem during our lifetimes. In this practical, compassionate guide, renowned yoga teacher and sleep specialist Lisa Sanfilippo shows how to sweep out sleep saboteurs and rest wreckers, putting in place sustainable strategies that will boost your energy during the day and help you access a good night's rest.