Teach Yourself VISUALLY Yoga

Dating back more than 5000 years, yoga is a sophisticated discipline that combines fitness training, relaxation techniques and lifestyle change possibilities. The health benefits of yoga are numerous, including stress-relief, physical exercise and therapeutic relief from ailments, such as chronic back pain, hypertension, migraine headaches and insomnia. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Yoga will provide step-by-step instructions that will help readers quickly get started experiencing the benefits of yoga. The book will contain detailed, full-color photographs that will give readers an easy-to-follow guide to performing common yoga poses, as well as useful information to keep in mind when trying new yoga poses. One of the many benefits of yoga is that it is accessible to everyone, regardless of age or fitness level. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Yoga will include useful tips to help readers adapt yoga poses to meet their individual needs. In addition to outlining common yoga poses, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Yoga will recommend sequences of poses readers can perform to achieve various goals, such as relaxation or fitness. Once readers become familiar with the basics of yoga, they can follow the advice in the book to design their own individualized yoga sessions.

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Yoga should include sections on:

• What is yoga?
• The health and fitness benefits of yoga.
• Breathing techniques.
• Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and accompanying full-color photographs for performing common yoga poses correctly and safely.
• Useful tips to help readers adapt poses to meet their individual needs.
• Appropriate clothing for practicing yoga and equipment that can be used.
• Warm-up exercises that can be performed at the beginning of a yoga session.
• Relaxation techniques and poses.
• Suggested sequences of poses for yoga sessions, such as beginner sessions, relaxation sessions and fitness sessions, as well as tips for designing your own sessions.
• Yoga meditation techniques.