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Cheryl Isaacson is an experienced yoga practitioner and teacher. She has written extensively on health, fitness and alternative medicine and is also the author of Yoga Step by Step.
This book is split into two parts. The first part, First Directions: Yoga, is an original, previously published work from an expert in the field. It’s a comprehensive and insightful introduction to the subject, explaining the ideas and techniques that will allow you to develop a true understanding and practise it every day.
The second part is 20 Minutes to Master Yoga, which you’ll find here. This is your Yoga cheat-sheet – a short and lucid look at the ideas and techniques covered in the first section, which will only take you 20 minutes to read. It’s a powerful and invaluable resource that you’ll return to again and again.
If you want to truly master Yoga – in both the short term and the long term – look no further. The answers are here.
CONTENTS
5 Getting Physical – Doing the Postures
2 Getting Physical – Doing the Postures
Yoga is a time-honoured system of balancing mind, body and spirit.
CHAPTER 1
NOT JUST KNOTS …
What do you think of when someone mentions yoga? People bending and stretching, balancing and twisting, in the classic poses now familiar to the health scene? Deep relaxation and mind control? Chanting and meditating and staring into candle flames? If so, then you are right on all counts – but you are only seeing part of the whole. The practices that we call ‘yoga’ today are just one small part of what is actually a many-sided, practical, life-enhancing discipline.
Yoga was originally part of the mystical wisdom of Indian philosophy, but today we mostly concentrate on the body postures, or asanas, with perhaps some breath control and a little meditation thrown in. The postures certainly help you to become fit and supple, but they are only one aspect of the complete way of life that yoga can bring.
Yoga also offers:
practical techniques for living life healthily and holistically, from following the correct diet to deep breathing and body strengthening
a complete code of ethics for daily life
simple methods for relaxing and meditating
postures for a toned, supple, healthy, strong body
tried and tested ways to find profound personal peace and stability.
Yoga can affect your whole life and there are many different ways of applying it. It is not just for the young and