Yoga Fitness

A spirited yoga teacher teams up with a dark horse partner (determined to right wrongs); and together they seek closure on the sudden and mysterious death of a friend.

Looking for a way to get fit that’s easy to learn and fun to do, regardless of your fitness or age? Is losing weight and feeling good important to you? Does improved flexibility and increased strength and balance sound appealing? Look no further than the “Senior Fitness Ultimate 2-in-1 Collection,” featuring simple yet effective Chair Yoga and Wall Pilates exercises that are taking the fitness world by storm. And now they’re yours in one comprehensive collection; your roadmap to strength, fitness, and healthy living, with Chair Yoga and Wall Pilates as your compass.

Pur discendendo da una cultura lontana dalla nostra e da una disciplina molto antica, lo yoga è una pratica assai diffusa nel mondo occidentale contemporaneo, che si è dimostrata utile per il benessere fisico, psichico e per lo sviluppo della conoscenza di sé. La parola sanscrita "yoga" indica ogni metodo indiano di ascesi e di meditazione; così inteso, lo yoga ha avuto un ruolo cruciale in tutti i sentieri spirituali indiani che mirano a una trasformazione completa dell'essere umano.

In The Eight Limbs of Yoga for Modern Times, you'll discover how to integrate the wisdom of yoga into your daily routine—whether you're a yoga teacher, a devoted practitioner, or someone seeking deeper meaning in life.

Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in the midst of our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as "the way of the fully alive human being" - a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than 10 years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent "pilgrim's progress" for today's world.

Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world - practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls - that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (asana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions today.

Patanjali Yoga Sutras is an age-old treatise written on the four-fold path of yoga. It delves into the workings of our mind, body and spirit. Originally written in Sanskrit, this book is by Swami Vivekananda, detailing each sutra, simultaneously guiding us on ways to reach our goals. Starting from the very basics like concentration and meditation, to higher goals like attaining liberation and self-realization, these sutras are meant to teach us ways that help elevate lives and spirits.

This short set of questions and answers clears some of the misconceptions about yoga by drawing attention to the original works on yoga dating back more than 2000 years. Questions that often arise as a result of commercially motivated propaganda are answered in a matter of fact manner. At the same time, this book reassures a sincere yoga practitioner, that the goal is not only achievable but worth the effort.

Yoga nidra is the master key to initiating shifts in conscious sleep states where change happens outside of doing. In yoga nidra, you enter a state of non-doing in which transformation happens from beyond the mind rather than through the mind. This comprehensive guidebook explores the core of Yogic philosophy and modern applications of yoga nidra backed by scientific research - affirming what Yogis have known for thousands of years.

Yoga for Witches explores a new kind of journey, connecting two powerful spiritual disciplines, with enchanting effects! Witchcraft and yoga share many similarities that are, for the first time, explored in combination, in this groundbreaking new title from Sarah Robinson, certified yoga instructor and experienced witch. Yoga for Witches shares exercises, poses and the knowledge you need to connect to your own special magic and inner power.

We live in a world where we feel completely lost and just riding along. We feel as if we just exist without any particular purpose in life. When that happens, anxiousness, stress and depression start creeping in, and we stop taking care of how we look as well as our health. The result is an unhealthy lifestyle, which may even advance to various health complications. Have you gotten to that point of your life where you feel you need to find your purpose and bring order to your currently disorderly life?

Stai cercando un modo per rimetterti in forma facilmente? È normale: tutti noi desideriamo essere più sani e in forma, avere una vita più produttiva e gestire lo stress di tutti i giorni. E la cosa strana è che, anche se sappiamo chiaramente che lo sport faccia bene, per qualche ragione non troviamo mai il tempo di praticare attività fisica. Gli abbonamenti in palestra sono sempre più costosi e intanto non facciamo altro che rimandare, aumentando il nostro livello di stress e tensione. Siamo spesso scorbutici, nervosi ed ansiosi. Ti suona familiare?

Eine Stunde neue Yogamusik (erprobt): Mit dieser speziell und zeitgemäß komponierten Yoga Musik erhältst Du die optimale Beschallung zu deinen täglichen Asanas. Ob Morgengruß, Yoga-Übungen im Stehen, sitzend, liegend... spiele diese sanfte und Energie spendende Musik für deine Yogasession ab. Deine Yoga Stunde ist in 7 Bewegunsphasen unterteilt und wird untermalt mit energetischer Musik die Deine 7 Grundchakren unterstüzt dich zentriert und deinem Selbst näher bringt. Wähle Deine Asanas je Bewegungsphase.

Explore the foundational text of yoga philosophy with Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras as interpreted by Swami Vivekananda. This insightful commentary on the ancient sutras reveals the essence of yoga practice, encompassing the physical, mental and spiritual dimensions. Swami Vivekananda's clear and profound explanations make these teachings accessible to modern audiences, offering a comprehensive guide to achieving mental clarity, inner peace and ultimate self-realization.

With his expert teachings, philosophical insights, and pragmatic imagery, world-class yoga instructor Tias Little turns the anatomy of the physical body into a tool for navigating the subtle body. If you spend considerable time doing yoga, you begin to see that it is about much more than just the body - the practice of yoga in fact reveals that the body is in no way separate from the pyschospiritual forces that animate it. Tias Little here provides a way to understand these forces as they relate to an integrated yoga of body, mind, and spirit.

You're about to discover how to perform yoga in your backyard. The book deals with different aspects of yoga and is an absolute essential for all those individuals who want to attain a healthy mind and body through yoga. The book discusses each subject related to yoga in detail. The writer has tried to use a very simple language hence even a person who does not possess any knowledge of yoga can understand it very easily. The book is very thought provoking and takes the listener into an entirely different world.

Thanks to the power of its "mystic" Indian origins, yoga promises peace, self-realization, and release. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to reveal a new origin story of modern postural practice. Starting with the world's first modern yogi—a Californian escapologist who added Hindu fairy dust to circus exercises—this history reveals a community full of grifters, occultists, and white supremacists, out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise.

Scholars have learned a lot more about the history of yoga in recent years, but their research can be hard to track down. Although their work is insightful, it is aimed more at specialists than at a general audience. The Truth of Yoga draws on many of their findings, presented in a format designed for practitioners. The aim is to highlight ideas on which listeners can draw to keep traditions alive in the 21st century.

While many Westerners still think of yoga as an invigorating series of postures and breathing exercises, these physical practices are only part of a vast and ancient spiritual science. For more than three millennia, yoga sages systematically explored the essential questions of our human existence: What are the root causes of suffering, and how can we achieve freedom and happiness? What would it be like to function at the maximum potential of our minds, bodies, and spirits? What is an optimal human life?

With the simple teachings and cutting-edge research offered in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath, you can start thriving just by integrating breathwork into your daily practice.Basic Yantra Yoga techniques - also called wind energy training - are the key to achieving this kind of vitality, down to the cellular level. Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo skillfully examine the teachings of Yantra Yoga and Buddhism through the lens of Western medical science.