Review: A thorough description of the healing power of yoga
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2013
Yoga is all the rage these days even though it has been around for thousands of years.  Yoga can be helpful and healing on so many different levels.  Christina has done a very good job at explaining the science behind yoga and also giving concrete advice on how yoga can help with various maladies such as heart disease, depression and insomnia.Why I enjoyed this book:* I love how Christina brings the scientific proof and explanation when explaining how yoga works.  Yoga works on your mind, body and spirit.  I'm an analytical person but yoga has changed my life. It's fascinating to read about how this happened.* The pictures of the poses.  Proper alignment is critical for yoga poses.  The best way is to have a yoga teacher help you, but seeing pictures along with detailed descriptions is also helpful.  I did have some issues with the pictures (see below).* The completeness of suggestions.  It's not just the yoga poses that can help.  Meditation and some herbs may also help.* The practical advice.  We are all crazy busy these days and most people don't have time to practice yoga for a long time.  Christine makes yoga accessible to all.There were a few things about this book that I thought could be improved upon so that the book looks more professional.The issues:* The Table of Contents page does not have clickable links, so it's hard to quickly get to a specific chapter.* The font size and style is not consistent in the Table of Contents.  About halfway through, the font size becomes much larger and is bolded.  This could have been easily caught with a proofreader.* The pictures of the yoga poses are all different types.  Christina took the pictures from various sites on the Internet and she is very good at giving credit.  However, it would have looked better if all the pictures were similar, e.g. all drawings or all photos taken with the same camera.* Several typos.  I understand that we are all human and make mistakes, but I think these typos could have been easily caught by a proofreader.These issues don't detract from the quality of the information in the book, but they do affect one's first impressions of the author.  That's why I'm only rating this book 3 stars since they make the book appear less professional and more or less thrown together.I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about yoga.  It would be best supplemented with taking a live class or doing a DVD.