Iyengar / Yoga

This title features classic yoga postures for mind, body and spirit. Promote your physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing with Iyengar yoga. This is a practical, easy-to-follow yoga course, with stage-by-stage visual guidance and postures especially chosen for beginners and intermediates. You can l [...]
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This title features classic yoga postures for mind, body and spirit. Promote your physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing with Iyengar yoga. This is a practical, easy-to-follow yoga course, with stage-by-stage visual guidance and postures especially chosen for beginners and intermediates. You can learn how to tone the muscles, acquire suppleness, stimulate the circulation, improve posture and benefit overall health. You can use this expert book to build up your yoga sequences over time, with therapy sessions for problem areas. You can calm the mind, increase concentration and relieve stress with the beneficial powers of yoga. It shows over 100 easy-to-follow yoga sequences in step-by-step detail, in more than 400 specially commissioned photographs. Iyengar yoga is an effective antidote to the stresses of modern lifestyles. It tones the body, improves posture and alignment, stimulates the circulation, aids the function of internal organs, develops powers of concentration and helps controlled breathing. This book explains the origins and philosophy of Iyengar yoga, giving advice on how to begin, when to practise and what equipment you will need.The classic asanas, or postures, have been graded by difficulty, with modified and advanced variations to suit all ability levels. The chapter on sequences demonstrates routines that will build into a daily and monthly yoga plan.