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 YogaTypes of YogaChoosing the Right Yoga StyleThe Origins and History of YogaThe Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliThe Eight Limbs of YogaMeditation and YogaYoga and ReligionEquipment and ClothingSetting Up Your SpaceBasic Yoga PositionsStanding PosesSitting PosesLying-Down PosesInversionsCool-Down PosesThe FoundationsBreathing TechniquesBuilding a Yoga RoutineIncluding Yoga Into Your Workout RoutineIncorporating Yoga Into Your Daily LifeYoga Poses for Stress ReliefYoga Poses for Flexibility and StrengthYoga Poses for Cardiovascular HealthYoga Poses for Mental HealthYoga Poses