Yoga By The Stars

A Month-by-Month Guide to Using Celestial Wisdom in Your Yoga Practice Featuring poses, meditations, visualizations, and breathing exercises, Yoga by the Stars invites you to journey through the wheel of the zodiac and discover how its symbolism inspires new and exciting yoga sequences. This hands-on book presents an extraordinary approach that connects the astrological signs to a yearlong cycle of yoga practice. Each month's zodiac sign helps you improve your wellness and gain insights into your life, regardless of your personal sign. Aries empowers your inner warrior in the spring. Libra helps you create balance in the fall. Capricorn gives you the strength to transcend your limitations in the winter. Jilly Shipway, author of Yoga Through the Year, shows you how to make your practice shine through specially chosen affirmations, asanas, correspondences, and more. This book is a vital resource for expanding your awareness and enjoying the gifts of the zodiac.

Create a Powerful Connection Between Yoga and the Wheel of the Year Find balance in your yoga practice and your life by connecting with nature and the cycle of the seasons. Yoga Through the Year reimagines yoga as a way to unite complimentary opposites—heaven and earth, sun and moon, male and female. Providing inspiration, guidance, and more than 100 illustrations, this book shows you how to work with the prevalent energy of each season and develop an authentic practice that makes you happier and healthier. Learn how to best work with the challenges and opportunities present throughout the wheel of the year. Explore mindfulness exercises, visualizations, meditations, and yoga poses and sequences that are specially designed for each season. This remarkable book's approach can be personalized to fit your needs all year long. With it, you can develop your own rhythm in response to each seasonal change.

The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health is the first comprehensive book about women's health issues and how to treat them with yoga. The authors offer a complete yoga program for general health as well as pose sequences that address specific health problems—all in the Iyengar tradition, which targets health needs more than other forms of yoga. For example, in the first part of the book, Patricia Walden has organized three chapters showing yoga poses with clear instructions that tell how to get into each pose and describe its benefits: chapter one is the Essential Sequence for all women, and includes modifications for people who cannot or should not do all the poses; chapter two is the Restorative Sequence for stress relief and relaxation; chapter three contains advanced poses that energize and tone. The second part is presented in four sections that broadly represent the stages of a woman's life: teen years and early twenties, later twenties and thirties, midlife, and wisdom years. Each section contains chapters offering specific information about a particular health issue from author Linda Sparrowe, as well as sequences of yoga poses from Patricia Walden that address the problem. For example, the back care chapter includes information about common back problems and their causes (scoliosis, arthritis, lordosis, sciatica, kyphosis, among others) with an emphasis on: emotional and psychological roots of some back problems; physiological information about the spine and back muscles; general information about how yoga addresses different areas of the back; and finally, Patricia Walden's sequences of poses that target different back problems with the goal of not only relieving back pain but of strengthening, and healing old injuries and misalignments. Sections of the book include: • Teens and Early 20s: Eating disorders, menstrual health, immune support • 20s and 30s: Back care, pregnancy, headaches • Midlife: Depression, menopause, digestion • Wisdom Years: Osteoporosis, postmenopause, the heart The final section of the book includes listings of yoga centers, instructional videos, yoga equipment, and where to go for more information about yoga.

In The Lotus and the Stars, the disciplines of yoga and astrology are intertwined to allow practitioners to draw on the energies of the sun signs and the planets through specific yoga postures. Possess the energy of Aries, the ambitions of Capricorn, or the spiritual insight of Pisces. Practice other postures to gain the mental agility of Gemini, the intensity and sexuality of Scorpio, or the creativity of Aquarius. Whatever sun sign is targeted or whichever attribute is needed, this groundbreaking method helps the body become a vehicle for transforming one’s life. The Lotus and the Stars is simple enough for the yoga novice, but even experienced yoga practitioners will find new meaning in standards such as the sun salutation when they see how the intent associated with a posture can enhance the benefit. The Lotus and the Stars is a natural blending of two ancient and popular disciplines that are directed to the same goal: discovering and empowering the self. In this book, readers learn how to draw on the energy associated with each sign. To do this, instructions for personalizing workouts - plus modifications for different levels of flexibility, time available, and personal preferences and needs - are included throughout. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of the techniques with true stories of students who have found astro-yoga helpful in their lives. They also suggest ways to use the workouts to handle common situations and problems.

If you like to dance, play sports, or just stay fit and healthy, get moving with a Little Stars book! This book describes and demonstrate some basic yoga poses.

Thera ventures along Forgiveness Trail to unite with her friends and practice Yoga in Star Park. Yoga helps Thera clear out her heart center, ground with Mother Earth and Connect to her higher self. Thera practices this act of self care daily to maintain a balanced mental and emotional body.

Enjoy Pure Bliss and True Relaxation with Yoga Nidra Experience peace and deeply restorative rest that heals your body, mind, and spirit. Featuring twenty-four Yoga Nidra scripts written by author Julie Lusk and thirteen of the world's master teachers, this book shows you how to use yogic sleep to revitalize your inner reservoir of intuitive understanding and unconditional joy. As a practice done lying down, Yoga Nidra helps you ease anxiety, boost immunity, reduce chronic pain, improve heart health, enhance memory and concentration, and much more. This empowering book offers meditations for everyone, and they're all backed by contemporary science. With guidance from Kamini Desai, PhD, Swami Satchidananda, Swami Shankardev Saraswati, MD, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, PhD, and other experts, you'll learn to clear your mind, settle your emotions, and reach a unique state of calm, focused awareness.