Jul 06 2008
Yoga for Dummies [book]
I really am enjoying this book and am so glad I bought it. It’s like a yoga textbook! And I love textbooks. I read through it once and am now going through it again, with my highlighter, to mark the things I find helpful and useful at a glance.
It has helpful info on living a yoga lifestyle, some Buddhist basics, useful meditation info, and very important chapters on counterposes and sequencing. Beginners would do well to absorb these areas as they develop their practice.
It’s not the best “pose” book, but I suspect this is really an adjunct to that in any case. Beginners should take classes, find some basic yoga DVDs and look for a good color picture book with pose names and arrows to what your body is doing in a pose. Then one can use this book on the side for the wealth of basics in the background, midground and foreground of yoga.
Yogis who already have a practice and know about the Eight-Limbed Path will not find this book useful in any way. For novices and early beginners, it’s a great place to start!
Stumble it!
