num_pages: 144
description: Providing clear guidance on the practice of the most important aspects of yoga, this practical handbook covers different types and how they are practised. It contains a history of yoga and the concepts behind it and explains yoga breathing and meditation with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations showing how to perform the poses. The aim is to help the reader to establish a daily practice routine by suggesting a basic beginners' sequence, with moves and positions to copy, and this edition offers added sections on yoga in pregnancy and yoga today. Yoga is one of the most popular forms of exercise and relaxation and this book shows the beginner how yoga can become a way of life. It address all aspects of our lives, from muscles and joints to tendencies buried deep in the subconscious and the book explains how through practice we can work through our negative tendencies, rendering them inoperative in the future and so gaining liberation.
language: English
title: Yoga
titlecomplete: Yoga
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Teach Yourself