Product Description

Yoga is not a fad. It has been around in the United States for over a hundred years and has a history of approximately five millennia. It is clearly here to stay. Yoga has brought health and peace of mind to millions of people. It can do the same for you.

The benefits of Yoga are many. When adopted as a lifestyle, Yoga extends over the entire day. Find out how this can be done and why Yoga is so often loved by people who are

• Interested in becoming more fit and flexible
• Looking for stress relief
• Seeking to live a more peaceful and joyful life

Yoga For Dummies guides you slowly, step by step, into the treasure house of Yoga. And it is a fabulous treasure house! You will find out how to unlock your body′s extraordinary potential and enlist your mind to do so, and in the process strengthen your mind as well. This book covers the following topics and more:

• Five basic approaches to Yoga
• Selecting a Yoga class
• Practicing Yoga safely
• The mechanics of Yogic breathing
• Classic foundational postures
• Exercises to target problem areas
• Putting together your personal routine
• Yoga for special situations

The focus on this book is on Hatha (pronounced haht–ha) Yoga, which is that branch of Yoga that works primarily with the body through postures, breathing exercises, and other similar techniques. When necessary, the book provides helpful photos or illustrations to help you better understand the exercises or postures.

One author (Georg Feuerstein) is internationally recognized as a leading expert on the Yoga tradition and has authored many seminal works on it. The other author (Larry Payne) has a thriving practice as a Yoga teacher in Los Angeles, where he teaches and responds to his clients′ specific health challenges. In this book, their combined 55 years of experience have merged to create a reliable and user–friendly introductory book that can also serve you as a beginner′s reference work on an ongoing basis.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7310 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Includes tips to get great abs and ease back pain

Exercise your mind and body the fun and easy way®

Just breathe! Release tension, lose the stress, and get in shape with this friendly guide, which comes packed with step–by–step instructions, pictures, and tips to help you create your own personal YOGA program. So discover how to tap the ancient power of YOGA – and start strengthening your body and mind today!

Praise for Yoga For Dummies

"Larry Payne is a gifted YOGA teacher."
– Michael Keaton, actor

"Yoga For Dummies is an invaluable tool in my practice. My patients swear by it."
– Dr. Leroy Perry, five–time Olympic sports chiropractor

"[Dr. Georg Feuerstein] is the leading authority on Yoga today. Yoga can be transformative. To learn how, read this book!"
– Larry Dossey, bestselling author of Healing Words

Discover how to:

• Create harmony between work and play
• Change habits that promote stress
• Pick the right clothes, props, and place
• Combat PMS and menopause or enhance your pregnancy
• Warm up with the right moves

About the Author
Georg Feuerstein, PhD, is an award–winning YOGA author and founder–director of the YOGA Research Center in Northern California.
Back specialist and YOGA teacher Larry Payne, PhD, cofounded UCLA Medical School’s YOGA curriculum.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Guide
This guide was excellently written, making for easy reading and working through. Not only did it explain how to do certain postures, but explained also what the benefits were. Finally, it emphasised safety and a certain amount of caution for postures in a vey professional manner. Weather using it alongside a Yoga course or making up your own routine, this is the best book Ive seen so far.

Informative, simple to understand, comprehensive in coverage
This book was extremely well-written so that even a novice yoga practitioner could understand the descriptions. Special attention was given to protecting a sensitive back, valuable information for our population in which most everyone suffers back problems at some time. The illustrations were very clear and appropriate to the text. This is truly a book that would be able to inform even a "dummy" yet it is still appealing to a more experienced yoga participant. Overall very intelligently written and entertaining.

Covers all with wit and style; ageless wisdom with a smile.
This "dummies" format demystifies the mystical and accentuates the practical. In short, for this unlikely topic, it succeeds brilliantly. (What's next, Buddhism for Blondes? But seriously...)

In one panoramic survey the authors deliver sleek, functional tools with upbeat and motivating energy, so you can "just do it" & learn Yoga. This is an encyclopedic yet highly entertaining version of the millenial science of Yoga. It sheds new and ultra-direct light on the old life-enhancing discipline.

Taking the often pretentious territory of Yoga and rendering it with simplicity and a sense of humor, the authors convey the essentials in easy text and pictures, without sacrificing authenticity. This book speaks directly to "dummies" (positivist translation: people who prefer books to spare the boredom and superfluous nonsense). In kindergarten we learned "Books are our friends". This book invokes the spirit of a charming while challenging, philosophical but sensible, personal trainer.