Showing titles in Yoga

Step into a transformative journey with Yoga of Silence, an audiobook course designed to guide you through the meditative essence of yoga inspired by Patanjali’s timeless Yoga Sutras. This 10-guided meditation (from 13 min. to 34 min.) invites you to delve into the stillness within, moving beyond physical postures to focus on mindfulness, self-awareness, and inner balance. What to Expect? Each session leads you toward stillness and clarity through simple yet profound meditative practices: Raja Yoga: Understand the mind and cultivate inner peace.

From Downward Dog to Cobra, Wild Asana invites you into an embodied exploration of the animals that inspire familiar yoga poses. Drawing on wildlife science, anthropology, Hindu mythology, Eastern philosophy, and personal stories, this insightful guide by environmental educator and yoga instructor Alison Zak explores the connections among our bodies, our minds, and the animals that inspire our practice, and invites you to bring the deep nature of animals into breath and movement.

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.

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.

Jacoby Ballard provides an empowering and affirming guide to embodied healing through yoga and the dharma, grounded in the brilliance, resilience, and lived experiences of queer folks.

Ha descubierto "Samadhi: Desbloqueando las diferentes etapas del Samadhi según los Yoga Sutras de Patanjali", la fuente de información definitiva sobre todo lo relacionado con la práctica del yoga Samadhi. Tanto si usted es un principiante o un experimentado practicante de yoga, o simplemente alguien interesado en la práctica, este libro alimentará su curiosidad sobre toda la práctica del Samadhi.

If you are new to yoga or have had a long break from exercising, the floor-based yoga classes in Gentle Yoga for the Absolute Beginner are perfect for you. These classes are easy to follow and allow you to experience the many benefits of yoga without applying unnecessary stress on the body. Gentle Yoga consists of two different 30-minute guided yoga sessions. These gentle, easy-to-follow sessions are not physically demanding and have been created to gently mobilize and release tension from the body.

Practicing yoga regularly can shape and tone the body, reduce excess body fat, and help us to develop a deep connection with ourselves. Over time and with regular yoga practice, lifestyle choices begin to change, and any cravings for high-calorie snacks begin to diminish. These classes are suitable for those with previous yoga experience. Sue Fuller's two in one Yoga for Weight Loss consists of two practical and effective yoga classes that will help you lose weight, improve muscle tone and body shape, and resist the temptation to snack.

Pranayamas are breathing techniques taught in yoga to increase and expand the vital life force (prana or qi) within the body. Regular breathing exercises can help reduce stress and tension, clear and focus the mind, and increase overall health and vitality. Pranayamas are easy to do and can be performed at a time and place that is most convenient for you.

Practical insight and advice for working with the chakra that serves as the foundation for awakening well-being throughout our body and our life.

For those faced with a cancer diagnosis and the journey of doctor-led surgery and treatments, yoga offers a way to regain control of your body and take an active part in your recovery and long-term health. In this easy-to-follow illustrated guide, yoga teacher and cancer survivor Tari Prinster presents 53 traditional yoga poses that are adapted for all levels of ability and cancer challenges. She then applies the movements and breathwork of these poses to address 10 common side effects and offers nine practice sequences for varying stages of treatment and recovery.

Yoga Beyond Belief offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection of valuable insights gleaned from a lifetime of exploration, practice, study, and teaching by one of America’s pioneering and leading teachers of yoga, the book assists listeners in making sense of the many discordant claims and teaching techniques that currently exist in the yoga world.

Yoga as Embodied Resistance illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga. Bridging scholarship, history, and cultural analysis, yoga educator and practitioner Anjali Rao exposes how caste oppression, patriarchy, colonization, and the right-wing Hindutva movement impact contemporary practice and offers listeners radical ways to re-envision a yoga grounded in liberation, inquiry, discernment, and even dissent.

This transformative guide blends scientific insight with spiritual wisdom, offering powerful natural methods to support mental clarity, emotional balance, and physical health. These practices are simple, accessible, and life-changing—no complex routines required.

Celebrated doula, healer, yoga teacher, and parenting coach Lori Bregman brings a holistic guide to being a more balanced, authentic, and joyful mother. Introducing the "five expressions of motherhood" - Action Mama, Flow Mama, Rebel Mama, Vulnerable Mama, and Free Mama - Lori offers supportive advice, exercises, meditations, and yoga practices to cultivate a healthy balanced life and stronger bonds. Accessible and encouraging, Mamaste provides foundational tools for parenting, relatable examples, and exercises to build self-awareness and mindfulness.

Yoga and the Body: The Future of Modern Yoga in the Studio and Beyond imagines the prospects for physical yoga practice. The authors, writing as advanced practitioners and teachers, share their enthusiasm for yoga and lay out the ways its physical practices can evolve and make an impact upon our understanding of consciousness. The chapters examine techniques, trends, and beliefs about contemporary practices and then speculate about where these could lead.

Fearless After Fifty is a courageous new book that shows how to flourish in midlife with yoga. Written by two internationally known teachers, Desiree Rumbaugh and Michelle Marchildon, Fearless After Fifty is a candid, conversational been there, done that book that demystifies yoga and makes you want what they're having. It is also the powerful story of Desiree Rumbaugh, who used yoga and Eastern philosophies to reclaim her right to joy after the tragic loss of her son. Everyone has endured something. I had to learn to choose love over fear if I was going to survive.

Are you living with chronic fatigue syndrome or extreme exhaustion? Are you tired of being passed around from doctor to doctor or spending thousands of dollars on programs without seeing any lasting results? Yoga isn't just a fad exercise. It's part of a medical system that's been supporting conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome for thousands of years. In this book, the author shares what she's learnt from over 10 years of practising yoga, and the steps she took to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome.

A delightful foray into the world of yoga, unlocking the practice's spiritual, physical, and psychological benefits and exploring the path to becoming a master instructor. This is an insightful, multidimensional portrait of how this Eastern practice became one of the most popular disciplines in America and of the yoga instructors who love it, train for it, and make a living from it.

In questo viaggio per conoscere la "mindfulness" partiremo dalla sua origine, antica e lontana, ossia gli insegnamenti del Buddismo, in particolare la meditazione Vipassana, e le pratiche di meditazione Yoga. Una volta chiarite le origini e gli assunti teorici, filosofici e culturali che sono dietro questa pratica, continueremo a conoscere la "mindfulness" andando al cuore dei suoi meccanismi. Capiremo l'importanza primaria della respirazione, analizzeremo il tipo di atteggiamento mentale necessario per vivere ogni attimo della vita in modalità mindfulness, cioè con consapevolezza, senza giudizio, nell’attimo presente. Infine analizzeremo la mindfulness alla luce di importanti e numerosi esperimenti in ambito psicoterapeutico e neurobiologico.