Review: `Adopt to a Yoga lifestyle to live an active and purposeful life!'
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
Anisha Lee is a fine instructor as well as a fine writer. She opens her book with an Introduction that sets the calm and relaxed pace for the reader who want s to FINALLY begin to practice Yoga: `Yoga is the enlightened way of living - an ancient natural science which was learnt and practiced by the Yogis in India. It fuses exercise, relaxation techniques, meditation, and controlled breathing - a combination of mental and physical disciplines that's considered more than 5000 years old. It makes the mind calmer and much more controlled, and increases the body's health and strength, helping on the way towards self-realization.' With words as informed and reassuring as these the reader can feel the impulse to join the ranks of the many people who have added the practice of Yoga to their lives.While many books for beginners concentrate on postures and cerebral reasons for moving in to the realm of Yoga, Anisha Lee takes a more thorough approach. She explains that not only does Yoga to improve flexibility, strength, tone, balance and coordination, but it also leads to defined muscle tone, release of body fat, treat insomnia, hypertension, boost the immune system and enhance entry into a state of peacefulness in this chaotic world. That, she explains, is the science of Yoga.From this stance Anisha Lee provides careful informed instruction on how to approach your first Yoga experience, the items necessary to begin the practice of Yoga, when and when not to practice Yoga, settles us in to the basics of Yoga and even spends considerable time offering a rich explanation of Pranayama - the foundation of Yoga therapy, in perhaps the most accessible explanation of the field that has been written for beginners. In this section she adds photographs of the many poses and postures that make following her instructions simple.The information is all here, made of easy and gently supportive that this surely is THE beginners' book for Yoga! Grady Harp, September 13