Publisher's Synopsis
Learn Yoga in Your Own Home
Yoga for Beginners is the essential guide to get you started with yoga. With simple explanations and step-by-step instructions and full-color pictures, this book can offer you everything you need to start enjoying yoga's benefits in your life.
This complete beginner's guide to getting started with yoga includes full-color images of yoga's essential poses to help you have a clear idea of what a well-performed pose should be like.
This book covers all the information you need to start practicing yoga at home, even if you are a beginner, have never practiced before, and are not fit and accustomed to a daily workout. You will start your journey by understanding what is yoga, the different existing kinds, how to choose the best one for you, and the benefits you can expect to achieve. Then you will discover the history and origins of yoga and the deep relationship between yoga and meditation. Once the theory is covered, the practical part of the book will cover every aspect of getting started, from clothing to the best place to practice, all the basic yoga poses, which poses are considered the foundations and how to perform them, the main breathing techniques to practice yoga and how to perform them, and how to easily build a yoga routine for beginners.
In the last part of the book, you will learn step-by-step how to perform the basic yoga poses divided into sections connected to the benefits you can achieve or to your age or condition, for example, you will find a sequence of poses to achieve strength, flexibility or to lose weight. You will also find a section with sequences for seniors, children, or athletes. Each pose is accompanied by a full-color picture of the pose correctly performed, so you can check your performance in a mirror and have feedback on your performance of the pose by comparison.
This book includes:
- What is Yoga?
- Benefits of Yoga
- Types of Yoga
- Choosing the Right Yoga Style
- The Origins and History of Yoga
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- The Eight Limbs of Yoga
- Meditation and Yoga
- Yoga and Religion
- Equipment and Clothing
- Setting Up Your Space
- Basic Yoga Positions
- Standing Poses
- Sitting Poses
- Lying-Down Poses
- Inversions
- Cool-Down Poses
- The Foundations
- Breathing Techniques
- Building a Yoga Routine
- Including Yoga Into Your Workout Routine
- Incorporating Yoga Into Your Daily Life
- Yoga Poses for Stress Relief
- Yoga Poses for Flexibility and Strength
- Yoga Poses for Cardiovascular Health
- Yoga Poses for Mental Health
- Yoga Poses for Weight Management
- Yoga Poses for Seniors
- Yoga Poses for Children
- Yoga Poses for Pregnant Women
- Yoga Poses for Athletes
- Yoga Poses for People with Chronic Conditions
- Misunderstandings and False Beliefs About Yoga
- Tips for a Successful Yoga Practice
- Warnings
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