The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
10 best books like The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards (William J. Broad): How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Light on Yoga, The Yoga Bible: The Definitive Guide to Yoga, The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga, 2,100 Asanas: The Complete Yoga Poses, The Yoga Sutras, Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga, The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living, How Yoga Works
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
| Author | Michael Pollan |
| ISBN | 0241294223 |
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness
When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp...
| 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 Yoga Bible: The Definitive Guide to Yoga
| Author | Christina Brown |
| ISBN | 1582972427 |
Yoga brings not only a suppleness to the body but also a sense of spiritual and physical well-being to those who practice it. Featuring over 170 postures from the main schools of yoga, The Yoga Bible is the ultimate, comprehensive guide to practicing yoga and finding a mental and physical balance in life....
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 | 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...
2,100 Asanas: The Complete Yoga Poses
| Author | Daniel Lacerda |
| ISBN | 1631910108 |
This fully-illustrated New York Times bestseller categorizes an astonishing 2,100 yoga poses through inspiring photographs and descriptions for optimal benefit at any level.
A thoughtful, inspiring, meticulously-crafted guide to the practice of yoga, 2,100 Asanas will explore...
| 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...
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 | Stephen Cope |
| ISBN | 0553801112 |
For modern spiritual seekers and yoga students alike, here is an irreverent yet profound guide to the most sophisticated teachings of the yoga wisdom tradition–now brought to contemporary life by a celebrated author, psychotherapist, and leading American yoga instructor.
While many...
| 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 | Michelle Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0307593517 |
When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. In The Goddess Pose, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg traces...
| 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 | 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...
| 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 | Raduan Nassar |
| ISBN | 8571640335 |
Lavoura arcaica é um texto em que se entrelaçam o novelesco e o lírico, por meio de um narrador em primeira pessoa - André, o filho encarregado de revelar o avesso de sua própria imagem e, conseqüentemente, o avesso da imagem da família. É sobretudo uma aventura com a linguagem: além de fundar...
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...
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 1570629013 |
Iyengar developed a form of yoga that focuses on developing strength, endurance, correct body alignment, as well as flexibility and relaxation. The Iyengar method integrates philosophy, spirituality, and the practice of yoga into everyday living. In The Tree of Yoga, Iyengar offers his thoughts...
Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle, and master each asana with confidence and control.
Did you know that yoga practice can help lower your blood pressure, decrease inflammation and prevent age-related brain changes? Recent scientific research now backs...
Guram Odišaria je abcházsky básnik, prozaik, dramatik, novinár a konfliktológ. V románe Prezidentov kocúr spomína na rodné exotické prímorské mesto Suchumi a jeho ešte exotickejších obyvateľov, na more, čo pení ako pohár šampanského.
Ústrednou postavou autorových...
How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy!: Your Personalized 4-Step Guide to Looking and Feeling Great from the Inside Out
| Author | Paul Chek |
| ISBN | 1583870067 |
You are unique! The way we respond to food, exercise and stress varies person-to-person just as much as our fingerprints. This book will identify YOUR individual needs and teach you how to address issues that may be preventing you from looking and feeling your best. Follow this proven four-step program...
Everything Explained For The Professional Pilot
| Author | Richie Lengel |
| ISBN | 0974261300 |
I find it bizarre how many REALLY GOOD REVIEWS this book has. Not many aviation books get a ton of reviews, and this isn't exactly a popular pick, so I find that suspect to begin with.
Secondly, the contents of this book might be awesome. They might not be. I couldn't get more than about 50 pages in....
| Author | K.M. Munshi |
| ISBN | 8172763492 |
Krishnavatara is a 7-volume reconstruction of Krishna's life and adventures by weaving a romance around him. Wise ad valorous, he was, loving and loved, far-seeing and yet living for the moment, gifted with sage-like detachment and yet intensely human; the diplomat, the sage and the man of action...
Do you Remember Kunan Poshpora?: The Story of a Mass Rape
| Author | Samreen Mushtaq |
| ISBN | 9384757667 |
On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian army stormed into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. Incensed at the villagers’ refusal to share any information, soldiers pulled residents from their homes, torturing men and...
એક ટ્રાન્સસેક્સ્યુઅલ વ્યક્તિના મનોમંથન અને જાતિ-પરિવર્તન કરાવ્યા પછી થતા અનુભવોની કથા.
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0061697699 |
Common sense tells us that to lose weight, we must eat less and exercise more. But somehow we get stalled. We start on a weight-loss program with good intentions but cannot stay on track. Neither the countless fad diets, nor the annual spending of $50 billion on weight loss helps us feel better or lose weight.
Too...
La utilidad de lo inútil: Manifiesto
| Author | Nuccio Ordine |
| ISBN | 8415689926 |
Κριτική μου, μόλις το 2015, για το βιβλίο και την επικείμενη επίσκεψή του στη χώρα μας https://www.academia.edu/30830837/Nuc...
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Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
How do you get to what's real?Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies....
O Prefácio da edição que adquiri - Coleção “Os Livros da Minha Vida”, Editora Clube do Autor - é de Margarida Rebelo Pinto. Passo a transcrever, porque traduz o que senti:
“O romantismo exacerbado é ridículo apenas para aqueles que nunca viveram a vertigem de um amor total...
