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Yoga practice helps individuals to find mental and physical balance. It is suitable for all ages and abilities and should bring about a sense of spiritual and physical well-being, as well as suppleness. This text encourages beginners and experts alike to design a yoga sequence to suit their own personal needs and abilities. Featuring over 150 yogic postures from the main schools of yoga, including Iyengar and Astanga Vinyasa, "The Yoga Bible" provides a comprehensive, illustrated, step-by-step guide to achieving the postures and advice on altering them where necessary - easier postures are highlighted for beginners or the less supple. The book also includes more advanced positions for advanced yogis. The text includes notes on various types of yoga practices as well as a summary of well-known traditional schools of yoga and how they vary. In addition to the wide range of postures, the author includes advice on breathing techniques and the benefits of yoga in healing, pregnancy, de-stressing and meditation.
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50 of 50 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book is wonderfully descriptive with easy to follow guides on over 150 different yoga postures. Each of the positions has one or more colour photographs to show you how it's done, along with different variations of the posture.
It includes breathing instructions, mudras, and various other little bits and pieces near the end, again, with pictures and just as easy to understand as the rest.
It's a must have for beginners since it's so clear and understandable, and a useful tool for the more advanced as a reference.
Highly reccomended
It includes breathing instructions, mudras, and various other little bits and pieces near the end, again, with pictures and just as easy to understand as the rest.
It's a must have for beginners since it's so clear and understandable, and a useful tool for the more advanced as a reference.
Highly reccomended
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm a trainee yoga teacher and this is quite possibly my favourite asana/posture book in my fairly large library of yoga texts. Things I like which justify my 5 star rating and recommendation of the book to other readers are:
1. It is not aligned to any particular school of yoga. The majority of postures you'd find in Ashtanga, Sivananda, Iyengar, Bikram and Bihar schools are listed.
2. Unusually this book also gives build-up poses and counter-poses for each posture. It also identifies what the effect (energising, calming, strengthening etc.) for each pose is. You won't find these things in many other books and it's useful if you practise on your own to be aware of this and want to construct your own lesson plans.
3. Multiple modifications to make any posture easier or harder are also identified. I think these are clearly explained and practical.
4. The author is strong on alignment and also the subtler aspects of yoga. The language makes it clear that it's not about getting the perfect pose, but about experiencing the sensation of the posture in your body.
I concede the point raised by one reviewer that the photographs demonstrating the postures are of the full expression and not for the beginner or intermediate positions. Because of this I'd agree that the book will be most valuable to those who are fairly experienced. That said, I think it can be helpful to see the full posture and start working towards it as a long term goal measured in years rather than months. It would have been useful if the author had further categorised each posture into Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced. To somebody experienced it's pretty obvious which is which but to beginners it may not be clear (the conundrum "is it just me who think that looks hard or would any normal person feel this way?").
I agree with other reviewers that the binding is a nuisance but this is unfortunately the norm rather than the exception for yoga books (Swenson's Ashtanga book is an exception).
1. It is not aligned to any particular school of yoga. The majority of postures you'd find in Ashtanga, Sivananda, Iyengar, Bikram and Bihar schools are listed.
2. Unusually this book also gives build-up poses and counter-poses for each posture. It also identifies what the effect (energising, calming, strengthening etc.) for each pose is. You won't find these things in many other books and it's useful if you practise on your own to be aware of this and want to construct your own lesson plans.
3. Multiple modifications to make any posture easier or harder are also identified. I think these are clearly explained and practical.
4. The author is strong on alignment and also the subtler aspects of yoga. The language makes it clear that it's not about getting the perfect pose, but about experiencing the sensation of the posture in your body.
I concede the point raised by one reviewer that the photographs demonstrating the postures are of the full expression and not for the beginner or intermediate positions. Because of this I'd agree that the book will be most valuable to those who are fairly experienced. That said, I think it can be helpful to see the full posture and start working towards it as a long term goal measured in years rather than months. It would have been useful if the author had further categorised each posture into Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced. To somebody experienced it's pretty obvious which is which but to beginners it may not be clear (the conundrum "is it just me who think that looks hard or would any normal person feel this way?").
I agree with other reviewers that the binding is a nuisance but this is unfortunately the norm rather than the exception for yoga books (Swenson's Ashtanga book is an exception).
63 of 67 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As an amateur / beginner yogi, I found this book extremely informative and accessible. The photographs as fantastically illustrative and the text is simple and straightforward. The book clearly explains how to start of with the very basics, and build yourself up at your own pace.
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I'm not sure what I was expecting actually but never in a million years will I be able to do half of the positions in this book without needing a trip to A&E. Read more
Published 26 days ago by KatieJ
A Must have for any yogis out there!
A really good pocket sized book, totally comprehensive and detailed. A must have for any practising yogi as well as Yoga Instructor. Read more
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Excellent, the must-have of every yoga practitioner. But again I knew this in advance of buying it since my yoga teacher had lend me hers previously.
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This ls an essential book for both yoga students and teachers alike. It is very well laid out, concisely and clearly written with lots of useful information not only on postures... Read more
Published 10 months ago by gillyflower
A handy book to have
This is a very handy book to have when learning postures. However, it can be a little long winded where something could be explained much simpler the book goes into too much... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Anne Bedford
Complete and completely wonderful!
I should have bought this book years ago as it has inspired me to do yoga at home twice a day, when previously I hardly ever practised at home between my weekly yoga lessons. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Guess Who
very helpful and detailed
This is a very helpful book demonstrating all basic postures with much needed details on how you enter and exit each posture. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Effie
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Small handy when travelling of just at home. Loads of info to keep you going . A great little purchase if cannot get to many yoga classes due to other commitments Thanks!
Published 12 months ago by Boomerang
Excellent book for the novice
I have been interested in and practicing yoga for a couple of years. I had some time out and wanted to get re-inspired in my practise. Read more
Published 19 months ago by yogibear
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