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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Pocket Idiot's Guide to 108 Yoga Posesdi Ami Jayaprada Hirschstein, Hrana Janto (Illustratore)
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Don't just sit there! Yoga can be practiced anywhere, but no one wants to lug around a full-sized, soup-to-nuts book. The solution: a book of poses and a few routines to enable one to practice at work, on a business trip, or while vacationing. * Includes more than 108 illustrated yoga poses for home, office, and travel, with concise explanations for what each pose achieves * In India, 108 is considered a sacred number * Features routines that utilize the poses * ABC News reports that 16.5 million Americans practice yoga--an increase of 43% since 2002 * Medical practitioners are now using yoga as a therapeutic tool to deal with carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive stress injuries Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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While yoga is an extremely gentle form of exercise, doing it wrong (like any exercise) can be dangerous. So if you want to continue your practice away from home or class, it can be invaluable to have a guide to remind you of how exactly to do it. Also, with such a guide you won't be limited to the five or ten poses you can most easily remember. This book has a total of 108, and includes the Sun Salutation and several practices (series of poses to use as a single workout).
Each chapter (chapters are divided by type of pose, such as inverted poses or backbends) starts off with general alignment instructions and cautions; be certain to read these even if you're sure you know what you're doing. Additional cautions are sometimes included in small boxes next to individual poses. This to me is always a sign of a good yoga instructor who is mindful of the possible difficulties and medical issues of her charges.
This book gets into some very difficult poses, which makes it a reference you'll be able to use throughout your yoga experience. I do wish it had included more indication of which poses were more advanced and should wait until later, although if you assume that you should not practice any pose in this book until you've done it at least once in a class, then you'll be fine--and again, since this book is meant as a companion and reference guide, that would be appropriate.
One particularly useful aspect to this book is that it includes "preparation" poses for some of the more difficult postures, which can also be used as substitution poses if you don't yet possess the physical capability to perform a posture.
Despite some very minor imperfections (I prefer photos to drawings, although these are good drawings), this book serves as an excellent reference work.
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