The Yoga Teacher
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| Author | Suzanne Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307717445 |
What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side? Not what you’d expect…
When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing...
| Author | Mandy Ingber |
| ISBN | 1580054455 |
Jennifer Aniston. Kate Beckinsale. Helen Hunt. Brooke Shields. In addition to their fame, these actresses share something else in common: they owe their enviable silhouettes to fitness expert and celebrity yoga instructor Mandy Ingber.
In Yogalosophy®, Ingber—one of the most sought-after...
| 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 | Meryl Davids Landau |
| ISBN | 1936586355 |
Lorna Crawford has a great boyfriend, longtime friends, and a well-paying job as special- events coordinator at a premium ice-cream manufacturer. But, out of sorts and filled with self-doubt, the 33 year old soon realizes that what she really wants is to stay on the spiritual path she keeps diving off...
| 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...
As a college freshman business major suffering from a variety of anxiety-related maladies, Brian Leaf stumbled into an elective: yoga. It was 1989. All his classmates were female. And men did not yet generally “cry, hug, or do yoga.” But yoga soothed and calmed Leaf as nothing else had. As his hilarious...
| 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 | Lucy Edge |
| ISBN | 0091899222 |
This book is basically a romp through some of the quirkiest, craziest, blatantly exploitative "ashrams" India has to offer. The author goes out of her way to be irreverent and as quirky as everyone else she meets along the way and that would have been fine if she had only been consistant.
My compaint...
| Author | Max Strom |
| ISBN | 1602399808 |
We can do more with this life. We all know it, we all wish for it, but just how to do it—that eludes us. In his new book, A Life Worth Breathing, internationally renowned yoga teacher and spiritual philosopher Max Strom shows us the way. His groundbreaking book reaches past expected dogma in a language...
| 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 | Paul Grilley |
| ISBN | 1883991439 |
Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice brings together in a fresh way the ancient wisdom of acupuncture and Taoism with Hindu yoga practices. The Yin aspect of Yoga (using postures that stretch connective tissue) is virtually unknown but vital for a balanced approach to physical and mental health. Paul...
| Author | Ana T. Forrest |
| ISBN | 0061864242 |
In Fierce Medicine, Ana Forrest, charismatic teacher and founder of Forrest Yoga, combines physical practice, eastern wisdom, and profound Native American ceremony to help heal everything from addictive behaviors and eating disorders to chronic pain and injury.
Fierce Medicine is also...
On a pilgrimage to see the Dalai Lama in the foothills of the Himalayas; blissed out in Germany with a beautiful Indian girl, believed to be "the Divine Mother"; witnessing miracles in the ashram of Sai Baba; and searching for the Messiah in the back streets of London- the spiritual tourist is the Candide...
| Author | Judith Hanson Lasater |
| ISBN | 1930485158 |
Judith Hanson Lasater has been teaching an annual yoga retreat at Feathered Pipe Ranch, in Helena, Montana, for 28 years. When she learned that one of her students was collecting Lasater’s thoughts — which she called “Judith’s aphorisms” — Lasater decided to collect them in this book....
| Author | Rain Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0452296919 |
A sparkling new series introducing five unforgettable women who flock to yoga at turning points in their lives and find the gift of lasting friendship.
The yoga studio is where daily cares are set aside, mats are unfurled, and physical exertion leads to well-being, renewal, and friendship....
Alex thought she had married the man of her dreams: successful, gorgeous, and delighted by her small-town charm. When he walks out six months later, proclaiming to have 'found himself' (with the help of a stunning yoga teacher), she 'finds herself' alone in an unfamiliar city, vengefully drinking...
Here is a personal tribute to “the father of modern yoga” Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), written by one of his longtime disciples. Krishnamacharya was a renowned Indian yoga master, Ayurvedic healer, and scholar who modernized yoga practice and whose students—including...
Yinsights: A Journey Into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga
Contributor(s): Clark, Bernie (Author), Powers, Sarah (Foreword by) The author explores the benefits of yoga as viewed by the Eastern and Western Worlds and related how it affects the body and mind. YinSights is divided into...
| Author | Debra Galant |
| ISBN | 0312367252 |
Nina Gettleman-Summer, a New Jersey yoga teacher, should be calmly guiding her high powered students through their savasanas and their chakras. Instead she is worried about...everything: her new meditation fountain overflowed causing one of her more litigious students to slip and fall; her husband...
| Author | Michelle Berman Marchildon |
| ISBN | 0984875514 |
Finally, a book for yoga teachers wishing to elevate their teaching to motivate students on the mat.
Have you ever wondered how to theme your class to inspire students, but not talk them to death? This book is for you. Michelle Berman Marchildon, internationally-known as the Yogi Muse, shows...
| Author | Katrina Repka |
| ISBN | 1401303471 |
"This is the story of a year I spent in New York, studying with Yoga Master Alan Finger." When Katrina Repka moved to New York, she was eager to shed her past and begin a new life, but she soon discovered that her old problems had followed her to the big city, and that instead of finding herself, she was more...
| Author | Cyndi Lee |
| ISBN | 0811835138 |
Too busy to attend yoga class but can't be bothered to read the endless instructions in the latest yoga book? In OM Yoga: A Daily Practice, celebrated yoga instructor Cyndi Lee brings the rigors and reqards of yoga class to the home with a totally unique method of teaching. Instead of wordy directiosn...
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 0751321672 |
B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health covers the complete teachings of BKS Iyengar for mind, body, and health, and is suitable for every level of yoga ability, age, and physical condition.
Fully illustrated throughout with unique 360-degree views of classic Iyengar asanas, B.K.S....
| Author | Chip Hartranft |
| ISBN | 1590300238 |
In just 196 short aphorisms, this classic work of Indian philosophy spells out succinctly how the mind works, and how it is possible to use the mind to attain liberation. Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide...
