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This title begins by providing an overview of yogic spiritual philosophy. It then explains the anatomy and kinesiology involved, and teaches how posture reveals muscular imbalances. The reader should learn to optimize health and healing through a synthesized, personal programme.
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Everything has two fundamental aspects: the superficial-which is obvious, clear, and revealed-and the unknown-which is secret, unclear, and hidden. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Everything has two fundamental aspects: the superficial-which is obvious, clear, and revealed-and the unknown-which is secret, unclear, and hidden. Read the first page
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This is an amazing book. I bought it because I suffer occasionally from sciatica, and have found that only yoga helps to alleviate the pain of this. However, sometimes even yoga has not been able to help. I have found, from reading this book, that the reason yoga doesn't always help me, is because I have not always done the correct postures to help my back. This book is easy to read, easy to understand, and also incorporates many of the spiritual elements of yoga for those who have an interest in this. It also gives a well-informed description of the yoga postures and what they do anatomically. Mukunda Stiles teaches his readers how to read their own bodies, and learn which postures will work best for them if they require some form of therapy. Overall, the book worked best for me because it opened up my understanding of yoga even further. Mukunda Stiles was able to straighten out his knock-knees and over-extended knee joints, and he believes that the body can be reshaped gradually using yoga postures. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to have a greater understanding of the anatomy (and spirituality) of yoga.
121 of 122 people found the following review helpful
By KS
Format:Hardcover
I love this book! Mukunda Stiles really knows his stuff, and writes with humour and real compassion and insight. Any yoga teacher or practitioner interested in the therapeutic use of yoga and with a basic knowledge of anatomy will find it informative, educational and thought provoking. Particularly useful are the tables which list structural problems, their causes and the asanas which help overcome them. Also, plenty of tips on adapting poses for people with specific problems. The case histories seem a bit redundant, the author doesn't need to prove anything, since his knowledge and experience shine through in the rest of the book, but he writes so well that they're just a good relaxing read. Physiotherapists and other medics interested in yoga might find this an interesting place to find out more.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
this book is quite different. the author is clearly a person who thinks outside the box. there is a great deal of very valuable information within these pages.
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By WOODSNAKE
Format:Hardcover
This book is well worth buying if you are looking to deepen your awareness of your personal anatomy and yoga goals and intentions. It's a workbook with excellent suggestions to help you get a clear picture of your body's structural imbalances and how to recalibrate and correct using asanas. I find myself filling the blank spaces with notes. It uses a process called body-reading which opens up new vistas by teaching you to look at your body with dispassionate/neutral eyes and notice whats going on. Some of the writing lacks clarity and leaves me thinking "does he mean this or that?", but when writing about anatomy or breath it's a complex technical study and therefore difficult to be both crystal clear and easily accessible. I still have some questions about breathing after reading the chapter on breath...he seems to contradict himself on one occasion, when talking about the growing subtlety of breath as it comes naturally into a softer shallower meditation pattern as we deepen concentration during practise, (from strong ujjayi Hatha into Raja Yoga). I think he's trying to get across the difference between stress breathing and meditation breathing. I think he's advocating that at some point in the practise one can leave behind a strong ujjayii breathing technique if one is fully "in the zone", and allow the breathing to develop natural kumbhaka pauses and great subtlty, less force, but i find myself wishing he was in the room and I could just ask him to clarify. Yet on the whole his insights are so useful and really make you observe yourself closely and in new ways, and in doing so gain more understanding of ones personal Yoga journey and this wonderful, ancient science.
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