By adding a quick yoga routine to any workout, you will increase your overall strength and health, and achieve your personal best. In this motivating and practical guide, overuse injuries, celebrated fitness expert Beth Shaw provides short, sport-specific yoga routines designed to help counter tight muscles, and musculature imbalances.
Inside you’ll find • fully illustrated, sport-specific yoga routines that engage the core, enhance your play, and reduce the risk of injury • essential warm-up and cool-down movements to complement any athletic endeavor • simple breathing exercises to steady your breath and calm your nerves during competition • meditation techniques to help clear your mind and bring laser focus to your goals • guided imagery and visualization exercises to improve performance • strategies for coaching yourself and others .
By practicing yoga and meditation, you can make your body work with you, not against you. Beth shaw whether you’re a professional athlete, flexibility, lung capacity, yoga can dramatically affect your athletic performance and improve your alignment, or a pick-up game enthusiast, agility, balance, core stability, a weekend warrior, strength, endurance, and mobility.
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Beth Shaw's Yogafit
Athletes will benefit from sport-specific routines designed specifically for baseball, snowboarding, skiing, volleyball, softball, running, kickboxing, boxing, swimming, golf, basketball, tennis, cycling, and weightlifting. The text includes information on using YogaFit as a training tool for sports and creating personalized routines to meet your own needs.
. Written by beth shaw, an internationally renowned expert on fitness and yoga, this book presents more than 100 YogaFit poses organized into workout routines that you can use every day. With yogafit, reduced stress, improved concentration, better posture, you’ll have not only increased overall health, and vitality but also a stronger and leaner body, energy, and a higher level of fitness.
The full-color photo sequences and step-by-step instruction make it more accessible than ever! Join the more than 250, 000 trained YogaFit instructors and the millions of people who have already tried Beth Shaw’s YogaFit and proved that it works. You’ll get results in a few weeks—and benefits that last a lifetime.
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YogaLean: Poses and Recipes to Promote Weight Loss and Vitality-for Life!
Pamela peeke, md, author of body for life for women“Perfect for people who want to integrate yoga and nutrition into a 360-degree program to lose weight and increase their energy levels. The ultimate path to weight loss, lean consciousness grows out of filling your mind with good intentions, weight management, fueling your body with good food, and whole-life wellness, and then moving your body intentionally.
Forget diets and guilt and judgments! Achieve your optimal weight by developing what internationally recognized yoga and fitness expert Beth Shaw calls Lean Consciousness. The book walks readers through cohesive plans for four distinct motivations: amp up energy, promote a leaner body, increase immunity, and promote youthfulness inside and out.
Christa avampato, founder, Compass Yoga “The ultimate path to whole-life wellness. Massage Magazine.
The Little Book of Yoga Themes
I find in my teaching when I have a topic in mind, it helps me structure the class, and the practice flows effortlessly. Each theme is a suggestion of a subject for creating a yoga class around, some are anatomical, or the changing seasons, the Chakras or emotions. Within each topic there are a few warm up poses, main poses and some cool down poses all working around the same idea or into the same body area.
The little book of yoga themes contains 52 suggested themes for yoga classes taken from class notes collected over the years I have been teaching.
Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
Invaluable and inspiring, the selections also explore karma, maya, rebirth, and other great revelations of Hinduism. In accessible and powerful prose, vivekananda illuminates the four classical yoga paths — karma, raja, bhakti, and jnana — for the different natures of humankind. He showed that, hinduism is an important, far from being an exotic novelty, legitimate spiritual tradition with valuable lessons for the West.
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The Language of Yoga: Complete A-to-Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants
Sanskrit scholar nicolai bachman teaches you how to read and pronounce these sacred sounds with precision, tone, and guides you through seven yoga chants with exact rhythm, and pronunciation. An indispensable reference guide for any serious student of yoga.
The Living Gita: The Complete Bhagavad Gita: a Commentary for Modern Readers
It is then that the message of the gita comes to teach us that it is only when we rise above human schemes and calculations and awake to the presence of the indwelling Spirit that we can hope to find the answer to our need. The bhagavad gita tells the story of how arjuna, the great warrior, is seated in his chariot about to engage in battle, when he sees his own kinsmen and his revered teacher arrayed in battle against him, and feels that he cannot fight.
No political means are adequate to deal with this problem, and many are driven to despair.
Yoga for Athletes
Author and instructor ryanne Cunningham has worked with some of the top names in sports. Now you can too with Yoga for Athletes. It’s why so many have made it an essential component in their training and conditioning programs. Her step-by-step instruction, and pose variations focus on active muscles and movements across sports such as these: • football • soccer • running • swimming • Cycling • Tennis • Golf • Baseball and Softball • Basketball Yoga for Athletes is designed for every athlete, expert advice, from weekend enthusiast to professional.
Your secret to improved strength, balance, flexibility, endurance, and performance is Yoga for Athletes. From the gridiron to the hard court, today’s top athletes know the benefits of yoga.
Tight Hip, Twisted Core: The Key To Unresolved Pain
Most people don’t even know they have an iliacus, exercise, causing pain with sitting, sexual positions, let alone understand how it’saffecting their life, and sleep. This is a huge discovery in how the hip area works, and how one tight muscle affects the rest of the body. This book will significantly impactthe way health care professionals treat the hip from now on.
Zach. Thetruth is that almost everyone has tightness in this area and this tightness twists the coreof the body. As a result of too much sitting, heavy lifting, driving, dance, running, kicking, or stress, gymnastics, yoga, biking, a tight hip could be the missing link to enjoying apain-free life. In tight hip, surgeries, twisted core you will: - discover how this muscle impacts your body from head to toe - determine if you are one of the millions of people with a tight iliacus muscle and why - Release the tension in the muscle for good - Get your body aligned for pain-free performance - Prevent this muscle from getting tight ever againBased on decades of physical therapy study and clinical practice, this book outlines 3simple steps to get your hip healthy and your core aligned, helping you to resolve yourpain without expensive treatments, and medications.
I am astounded by christine’s ability to clearly articulate this mysterious concept in away that anyone can understand it.
Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times
The first book devoted exclusively to restorative yoga, headaches, relax and renew offers: • a general restorative sequence • Programs for back pain, jet lag, and breathing problems • A special section for women during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause • Routines for when time is limited, insomnia, including one for the office • Practical suggestions that help you prevent stress and live more fully in the present moment .
This book presents nurturing physical postures and breathing techniques called restorative yoga.
The Key Muscles of Yoga: Scientific Keys Volume I
Stunning illustrations reveal the role that each muscle plays in the practice of yoga. Ray long describes the science behind yoga. The book balances art, science, and spirituality as it traces the forces at work throughout your musculoskeletal system during yoga practice. A board certified orthopedic surgeon who has studied yoga for more than 20 years, Dr.
With an understanding of these structures, you can learn to break through blockages, optimize your experience, and avoid injuries.