Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
10 best books like Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques (Mark Stephens): The Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Light on Yoga, The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life, The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga, The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga: The Philosophy and Practice of Yin Yoga, The Yoga Sutras, The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman's Guide to the Heart and Spirit of the Yoga Sutras, Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga
| Author | Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa |
| ISBN | 0140449183 |
The Bhagavad Gita is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battle between the Pandava and Kaurava armies, the god Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior...
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
| Author | Patañjali |
| ISBN | 0609609599 |
“A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth.”—Jacob Needleman
The Yoga Sutras were cast in their present form in India around the third century b.c. Yoga is from the Sanskrit root meaning “union,” and a sutra is a thread or aphoristic...
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 0805210318 |
Light on Yoga has become the bible for hundreds of thousands of people who practice Yoga daily with the Iyengar method, for exercise, meditation, or simply relaxation. With more than 600 photographs depicting all the postures and breathing exercises, it remains the fullest, most practical, and most...
The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted to the needs of the individual.
• A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher.
• This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya...
| 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....
| Author | Ray Long |
| ISBN | 0977961419 |
This is the third edition of The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga, with extended contents. There is a new cover, over 50 new pages with an expanded chapter on the breath and more biomechanics in yoga. 244 page book with over 650 colour 3D computer generated images of a human skeleton covering over thirty key muscles...
| Author | Bernie Clark |
| ISBN | 1935952501 |
Bernie Clark's The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga provides an in-depth look at the philosophy and practice of Yin Yoga with illustrated sections on how to practice Yin Yoga, including descriptions with photographs of 30 Yin Yoga asanas.
All forms of yoga can provide benefits physically, emotionally,...
| Author | Patañjali |
| ISBN | 0932040381 |
This valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic...
| Author | Nischala Joy Devi |
| ISBN | 0307339696 |
Yoga is well known for its power to create a healthy body, but few realize the emotional and spiritual benefits. In The Secret Power of Yoga, world-renowned Yoga expert Nischala Joy Devi interprets Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the principles at the basis of Yoga practice, from a heart-centered, intuitive,...
| Author | Rolf Gates |
| ISBN | 0385721544 |
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As more and more people in the West pursue yoga in its various forms, whether at traditional centers, in the high-powered atmosphere of sports clubs, or on their own, they begin to realize that far from being just another exercise routine, yoga is a discipline of the...
| Author | Donna Farhi |
| ISBN | 1930485174 |
Drawing on decades of experience training yoga teachers and cowriting the California Yoga Teachers Association (CYTA) code of ethics, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for teaching yoga. Teaching Yoga explores with depth and compassion a variety of topics both practical...
| Author | Amy Ippoliti |
| ISBN | 1608682277 |
Thousands of yoga lovers take teacher training courses each year, hoping to share what they learn with others. Many want to make yoga teaching their full-time career, but most training programs fall short in covering business acumen, and they may not equip graduates with the entrepreneurial skills...
| Author | Erich Schiffmann |
| ISBN | 0671534807 |
Although I learned more from Schiffmann's DVD with Ali MacGraw which I practiced with for the longest time during the long Vermont winters several years ago, I also bought this book which was very helpful, because the explanations and reasons behind the poses was described in great detail. My favorite...
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 1594865248 |
B.K.S. Iyengar--hailed as "the Michelangelo of yoga" (BBC) and considered by many to be the most important living yoga master--has spent much of his life introducing the modern world to the ancient practice of yoga. Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance as an exercise for physical...
Everyday, millions of people roll out their yoga mats or sit on their meditation cushions in an effort to quiet the mind and heal the body. Some practice Iyengar yoga, while others practice vinyasa or restorative yoga—almost all who practice yoga have touched something deep within themselves and...
The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work
| Author | Donna Farhi |
| ISBN | 0805042970 |
A new approach to improving quality of life through your most accessible resource: your breath.
Internationally renowned yoga instructor Donna Farhi presents a refreshingly simple and practical guide to reestablishing proper breathing techniques that will dramatically improve your...
The Yamas Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice
| Author | Deborah Adele |
| ISBN | 0974470643 |
The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras—the basic text for classical yoga—are examined in this spiritual guide to the practice of yoga. Foundational to all yogic thought, they are considered to be the guidelines to the yoga way of living that free individuals to take ownership...
| Author | Leslie Kaminoff |
| ISBN | 0736062785 |
See inside every yoga pose! With clear, expert instruction and full-color, detailed anatomical drawings, Yoga Anatomy depicts the most common asanas to provide a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement and of yoga itself.
From breathing to standing...
