Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit
10 best books like Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit (Ana T. Forrest): Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life, The Mirror of Yoga: Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind, Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga, Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression, Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga, The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America, Enlightenment for Idiots, Myths of the Asanas: The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition, Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses to Help Your Baby Sleep Longer, Digest Better, and Grow Stronger
| Author | Judith Hanson Lasater |
| ISBN | 0962713880 |
If you think that you have to escape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life—all of them—as practice....
The world of yoga is astonishingly rich in its array of schools and practices. Yet, as diverse as they seem, they share a common aim: the discovery of the essence of existence that can be found at the core of our being, and the liberation that comes from that discovery. With this worthy goal in mind, Richard...
| Author | Amy Weintraub |
| ISBN | 0767914503 |
Take the natural path to mental wellness
More than 25 million Americans are treated with antidepressants each year, at a cost in excess of $50 billion. But the side effects of popular prescription drugs may seem nearly as depressing as the symptoms they’re meant to treat. Veteran yoga instructor...
| Author | Bo Forbes |
| ISBN | 1590307607 |
Emotional balance is within your reach—when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, presents an integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. In this book, she offers some of her most important teachings...
| Author | Neal Pollack |
| ISBN | 0061727695 |
Neal Pollack calls himself a comic writer. Which sounds better than "fitfully amusing lightweight writer," although that's probably closer to the truth. There are hardly any chuckles here, and even few smiles, given the subject and its potential (whether you practice yoga or not, there IS something...
In the spirit of Born to Run and Word Freak, an eye-opening look?at the world of extreme yoga and?a?tale of personal transformation ? Yoga is practiced by 20 million Americans and?has grown into a $6 billion industry. Tales abound of the benefits that come from stretching your limbs?and your sense of...
| Author | Stefanie Syman |
| ISBN | 0374236763 |
In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga’s transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar American industry.
Yoga’s history in America is longer and richer than even its most devoted practitioners realize....
| Author | Anne Cushman |
| ISBN | 0307381641 |
A yoga teacher finds new life in India–just not the one she was expecting.
Nearing thirty, Amanda thought she’d be someone else by now. Instead, she’s an ex-nanny yogini-wannabe who cranks out “For Idiots” travel guides. True, she has a sexy photographer boyfriend, but he’s...
| Author | Alanna Kaivalya |
| ISBN | 1601090579 |
Practitioners around the world reap the physical benefits of yoga, assuming poses and frequently calling them by their Sanskrit names. While many know that hanumanasana is named for the deity Hanuman, few understand why this is the case. Behind each asana and its corresponding movements is an ancient...
| Author | Helen Garabedian |
| ISBN | 0743243552 |
The ancient practice of yoga will help your baby sleep better, digest easier, be happier, and stay healthier. Start today.
If you've been searching for an excellent way to bond with your baby and improve his or her health, Itsy Bitsy Yoga is the solution you've been looking for. Helen Garabedian,...
| Author | Ray Long |
| ISBN | 1607439433 |
Master the science behind Vinyasa Flow and the standing poses of Hatha Yoga. Dr. Ray Long guides you on a visual narrative through the anatomy, biomechanics, and physiology of this ancient art, decoding each pose along the way. The Mat Companion series provides you with beautifully illustrated, step-by-step...
| Author | Matthew Sanford |
| ISBN | 1594863024 |
Matthew Sanford's inspirational story about the car accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down is a superbly written memoir of healing and journey--from near death to triumphant life.
Matt Sanford's life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 on a snowy Iowa road. On that day,...
21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics, and Practice
| Author | Carol Horton |
| ISBN | 0615617603 |
Yoga may be rooted in ancient India, but it’s morphed into something new in North America today.
Precisely what that might be, however, is difficult to say. Yoga is taught everywhere from spas to prisons, and foreverything from weight loss to spiritual transcendence. With its chameleon-like...
| Author | Bikram Choudhury |
| ISBN | 1585420204 |
Sweat, strain, laugh, and do more for your health, body, and general well-being than you even imagined possible as you take your beginning yoga class from Bikram. For more than twenty years, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class has been among the preeminent and most beloved of all yoga guides-and now it has...
| Author | Michael Roach |
| ISBN | 0976546906 |
Really wanted to like this book. Yoga teachers who I respect highly recommended it. I don't object to the content but rather to the vehicle--a dramatic tale ostensibly set in an ancient Indian kingdom.
First, I have a low tolerance for historical inaccuracy in fiction. Details of language,...
| Author | Yogi Swatmarama |
| ISBN | 8185787387 |
This affordable, definitive edition of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika contains the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and full-page photographs of all the asanas. The chakras, kundalini, mudras, shakti, nadis, bandhas, and many other topics are explained. This is the first edition of the...
| Author | Sharon Gannon |
| ISBN | 0345442083 |
The long-awaited,
complete guide to the popular, vigorous American method of yoga that is deeply rooted in ancient wisdom and scriptures
“In this day and age of health and fitness trends, it is assuring to know that Sharon and David encourage their students to draw inspiration from...
| Author | H. David Coulter |
| ISBN | 0970700601 |
Anatomy of Hatha Yoga is the only modern authoritative source that correlates the study of hatha yoga with anatomy and physiology. Hatha yoga is comprised of stretching, strengthening and breathing exercises in upright, lying down and inverted postures. Yoga teachers and students, personal trainers,...
| Author | Baron Baptiste |
| ISBN | 0743227832 |
New York Times bestselling author of Perfectly Imperfect
From Baron Baptiste, author of Journey Into Power and the “spiritual master driving the yoga revolution” (Self), a hands-on, step-by-step guide to adapt to your needs and lifestyle to make your body sleek, your mind clear, and...
| Author | Sara Avant Stover |
| ISBN | 1577319826 |
Live in accordance with nature and your soul
Our ancestors adhered to the daily, seasonal, and yearly rhythms of nature by necessity, but modern life overrides these cycles, compromising women’s health and happiness. In this book, Sara Avant Stover shows how simple, natural, and refreshingly...
| Author | Sally Kempton |
| ISBN | 1604070811 |
Meditation is like a love affair with your innermost self. At times it can be ecstatic and entrancing, other times simple and still—and sometimes you might not even feel its profound effects until later.
Now with Meditation for the Love of It, Sally Kempton shares practical secrets to help...
| Author | Maya Tiwari |
| ISBN | 0345434846 |
"We are wellness. We are consciousness. That is our natural state. Disease is an imposter."
As one of the world's only female experts on the ancient Indian tradition of Ayurvedic medicine, renowned teacher Bri. Maya Tiwari has devoted her heart and soul to sharing the philosophy and methods...
| Author | William J. Broad |
| ISBN | 1451641427 |
A lead science writer for The New York Times—and lifelong yoga practitioner—examines centuries of history and research to scrutinize the claims made about yoga for health, fitness, emotional wellbeing, sex, weight loss, healing, and creativity. He reveals what is real and what is illusory,...
