The Shakti Yoga Wheel 98 Posture Guide

The yoga wheel is a great tool to workout and to enhance and deepen the yoga practice. This guide will give you a great step by step introduction on how to use a yoga wheel. With 23 years of experience in yoga, health and fitness training the authors filled this posture guide with lot's of helpful instructions and tips for your daily yoga practice.

Join the hottest trend in yoga, with 50 exciting poses to practice on your Yoga Wheel. The perfect guide for beginners to yoga. Large illustrations and instructions for using the Yoga Wheel to support you and help you balance in your first poses! If you are a more experienced Yogi, the Yoga Wheel Book can push you to reach more advanced postures and develop your practice. The Yoga Wheel Book outlines how you can use the Yoga Wheel to practice 50 yoga poses, with illustrations and instructions. Yoga Wheel Club is a community of Yoga Wheel lovers that share the best poses for your practice. We've combined all the most exciting and challenging poses into one book so that you can explore new ways to use your wheel. The Yoga Wheel can help you reach more difficult poses by improving your flexibility, posture and strength. Book Features: Warm-ups and stretches Beginner Poses Intermediate Poses Advanced Poses Partner Poses Beautiful illustrations | Large print - visible from the mat! If you are new to the wheel, start with some beginner poses, before moving on to the intermediate or advanced sections. You can also try some partner poses to share the joy of the yoga wheel with friends. Grab the wheel and begin your journey!

Wheel pose is a goal for many new yoga practitioners because it serves as a significant milestone on the road to practicing deeper backbends. The wheel pose is by no means an easy or accessible pose when you're relatively new to yoga! It is a great backbend foundation to work toward because your full body is working when doing wheel pose. The wheel requires flexibility in the entire front body and strength in the entire back body. Once you can do wheel, you're well on the way to be able to practice many other types of backbends with strength, integrity, and ease. This book outlines how you can use the Yoga Wheel to practice 50 yoga poses, with illustrations and instructions. The Yoga Wheel can help you reach more difficult poses by improving your flexibility, posture, and strength. -Warm-ups and stretches -Beginner Poses -Intermediate Poses -Advanced Poses If you already practice yoga, the wheel can push you to reach more advanced postures and develop your practice. It's not just for experienced yogis though. If you are starting yoga, then the Yoga Wheel can act as a supporting tool to help you balance in your first poses and develop your strength. If you are new to the wheel, start with some beginner poses, before moving on to the intermediate or advanced sections. You can also try some partner poses to share the joy of the yoga wheel with friends.

The yoga teacher’s guide to planning and sequencing yoga classes—with over 2,000 instructional photos and 67 yoga pose sequences for students of all skill levels. Also features additional resources, including yoga class planning worksheets, comprehensive glossaries, and much more! Addressing one of the most popular topics in the yoga profession, this book offers 67 model sequences of yoga poses (asanas) that cover the broad range of yoga student experience. Inside, established and aspiring yoga teachers will find: • Over 2,000 instructional photos and guide to over 150 yoga asanas • Multiple sequences for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students • Yoga sequences for kids, teens, seniors, and women across their life cycle • Yoga classes designed for relieving depression and anxiety • Sequences for each of the major chakras and ayurvedic constitutions • Guidance for teaching breathing (pranayama) and meditation techniques • Glossary of terms and alphabetical asana index with thumbnail photographs • Yoga class planning worksheets • Representative sequences from several popular styles of hatha yoga • And many more resources for further reading! Drawing on ancient yoga philosophy and contemporary insights into functional anatomy, biomechanics, and kinesiology, Yoga Sequencing is the ultimate guide teachers looking to bring the transformative power of yoga into their practice and classes.

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