Yoga for Beginners Simple Yoga Poses to Calm Your Mind and Strengthen Your Body

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YOGA FOR BEGINNERS ...

YOGA FOR BEGINNERS ...

YOGA FOR BEGINNERS Simple Yoga Poses to Calm Your Mind and Strengthen Your Body by Cory Martin ...

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CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6 PREFACE 8 CHAPTER ONE Basics 11 CHAPTER TWO Practice 31 CHAPTER THREE The Essential Yoga Poses 61 CH ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A book is never written overnight or completed alone. I have been blessed with a team of teachers, editors, frie ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To my Mom and Dad, thank you for always encouraging me to do the things I love, and supporting every crazy caree ...

PREFACE I always thought of myself as a fairly athletic person. But my fi r s t y o g a c l a s s? T h a t w a s i m p o s s i b ...

PREFACE I’ve been practicing yoga for over ten years, and I’ve taught in Los Angeles for nearly five. My students have met with ...

CHAPTER ONE Basics ...

Now that you’ve met me, I think it’s time to meet yoga. What is it? Where did it come from? What are its benefits? Is it a worko ...

YOGA FOR BEGINNERS What Is Yoga? Yoga is now. That’s it. That’s all there is to know. Good night and thank you. Okay, it’s far m ...

BASICS The Eight Limbs of Yoga Patanjali understood that there was more to yoga than just moving the body. Achieving the now is ...

YOGA FOR BEGINNERS I recognize that for now these Sanskrit terms probably mean nothing to you, and you might just want to move o ...

BASICS This principle can be as simple as the lessons taught to kids, such as do not hit and do not fight, or it can get more co ...

YOGA FOR BEGINNERS BRAHMACHARYA Brahmacharya is perhaps the most interesting yama. It has been translated to mean abstinence, an ...

BASICS These five concepts lay out ways to act in the world. They encourage you to contemplate how you act as an individual, con ...

YOGA FOR BEGINNERS and which pain takes you away from the practice of ahimsa and causes harm. Svadhyaya concerns taking responsi ...

BASICS Dharana Dharana is the ability to concentrate on one thing and let all else drift away. Think about a professional athlet ...