Contains step-by-step instructions for learning yoga, including preparation, exercises, relaxation, and meditation.

!--StartFragment-- More than just a passing trend, Yoga promises countless benefits to your health, happiness and lifestyle, and is increasingly popular with people of all shapes and sizes. This user-friendly book is your perfect home Yoga instructor. The basic postures, balancing and standing poses, plus floor exercises are all clearly photographed with explanatory labels and tips so you get each one right. The handy pull-out concertina shows all the postures together so you can create your own routine to suit your needs. With Zest's Yoga Made Easy you'll progress from beginner to pro in the comfort of your own home. Other titles in the series include Pilates Made Easy (9781843405269), Bikini Body Made Easy (9781843405306), Triathlon Made Easy (9781843404330) and the bestselling Running Made Easy (9781843404347). !--EndFragment--

Discover the energizing and healing benefits of yoga nidra with this empowering beginner's guide. Yoga nidra, or yogic sleep, is a deeply restorative and nourishing practice. With no need for physical movement, it helps improve sleep, relieve stress, boost energy, and enhance creativity. This ancient and sacred form of yoga is accessible and adaptable. Experts Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli draw on decades of teaching experience to show you how to easily integrate yoga nidra into your life for sleep-filled nights and energized days. You’ll learn: · how to enter the state of yogic sleep · tips and hints to memorize the practice so you can take it with you wherever you go · the tools to create a sequence that’s perfect for you · about inspiring real-life case studies from yoga nidra practitioners By following the practices in Yoga Nidra Made Easy, and listening to over 20 specially created audio resources to support your journey, you’ll soon experience a sense of peace, vitality, well-being, and reconnection to the cycles that nourish all of life.

Maximize athletic performance and increase strength and endurance through the power of yoga. Incorporating yoga into your fitness regime can help you perform better on the sports field and in the gym! Learn how yoga works and integrate key yoga poses and routines to improve flexibility, core strength, and prevent injuries. For centuries yoga has been used to improve overall health and strengthen the mind and body. This yoga guide focuses on helping men perform at their highest fitness levels. Inside the pages of this yoga book you'll find: - More than 50 postures with full-colorr photos and step-by-step instructions. - Over 20 workout routines tailored to specific performance goals, such as endurance and power, or improving your running or weightlifting performance. - Focuses on the functional aspects of yoga, including sports performance and injury prevention. - Information on how yoga can specifically benefit men. - Easy-to-follow steps to execute yoga postures. Yoga is known to have plenty of benefits, but did you know that it also has benefits specifically for men and athletes? At the core, this ancient practice is based on stretching different muscle groups for greater flexibility, ease of movement, and greater power. And these benefits translate to sports performance, gym gains, and overall health - allowing your body to move as it should. No chanting required to master these yoga postures and workouts! Written by Dean Pohlman, sports coach and author, this yoga book for men is focused on yoga's functional fitness benefits and less on the spiritual or emotional aspects. A wonderful gift and fitness resource, Yoga For Men: Build Strength and Improve Performance will help men meet their performance goals, play harder and feel better.

Jude Reignier's Easy Yoga is based on her ten years' teaching experience and will appeal to adults, children, and those with special needs alike. Her postures stimulate and massage the whole system, including internal organs, while gently stretching, firming, and toning the muscles and ligaments. It's easy! The easy approach presents clear illustrations and a concise text to demystify popular therapies. Each routine can be understood quickly, so that within minutes you are feeling good and energized. Learn the full 45-minute sequence and then adapt it to your busy schedule. See at-a-glance reminders of all the sequences inside the jacket. Jude Reignier trained in Hatha yoga at the Shivananda Center in the Catskills, New York. She now teaches her own easy style based on knowledge she has gain and working with adults, children, and people with special needs on a one-to-one basis or in groups. She is married with two children and lives in Notting Hill, London.

Written by an author experienced in teaching yoga around the world, this classic work presents simple yoga techniques to enhance one''s mental and creative abilities.'

Let your toddler discover the joys of yoga through the simple poses in this yoga book for kids. With a range of gentle poses carefully selected in an order that will engage, energize, and then relax, this book can be accessed by all abilities. Sweet illustrations of yoga positions are brought to life with real photographs of young children practicing the moves. From downward dog, to cat stretch, to sleepy sloth, this board book includes a variety of yoga moves that are made fun for little ones. Babies and toddlers will love looking at the beautiful pictures in this illustrated children's book and turning the pages by themselves. There are a range of easy poses for toddlers to copy. Can they stand up tall like a tree and try to balance on one leg or breathe out fiercely like a lion? My First Yoga helps preschoolers to develop their early learning skills as they name the animals and objects that go with each pose, broadening their vocabulary. The sturdy board book is made for kids to get hands-on with and is perfect for little children to hold by themselves. Yoga has many health benefits as it helps with balance, coordination and mindfulness -- it's never too early to start!

The Yoga System was formulated by Patanjali. His sutras, the formulas or equations, are complex to comprehend without a thorough knowledge of Sanskrit language. Since the sutras are written in a kind of shorthand manner, they require a sound understanding of the yoga philosophy and the vedic culture in order to decipher each word of the sutra clearly. Prof. Ratnakar Narale has analyzed each word in basic terms and English transliterated it to make the learning of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali easy. Dr. Narale has organized the entire subject under 90 unique subheadings and has formulated all the definitions and indices to the make it a valuable reference guide.

From one-minute miracles to daily routines, this guide to the micro practice of yoga has you covered. Not everyone can get to a yoga studio, so let The Little Book of Yoga Practices be your portable guide. From one-minute miracles to daily routines, this guide to the micro practice of yoga has you covered. With yoga routines for any time of day, perfecting your balance and relaxing your body has never been simpler. Flip to poses that will target key emotions, or follow the monthly guide, the choice is yours. With easy-to-follow poses just a page turn away, you'll have one less reason to skip your daily workout.

Covers poses, breathing, and health-related issues.