Product Description
A step-by-step guide to yoga--stretching, breathing, and postures--in the proven Alpha Teach Yourself format. Readers can work through the process at their own pace, in comfortable one-hour chapters. Yoga lends itself particularly well to the Alpha Teach Yourself format because there is a logical progression of complexity in material to be learned; each hour builds on the hours that have come before. The first hours deal with stretching, relaxation, and breathing and then move forward to basic bends, twists, and postures, sitting positions, deepening your practice by adding meditation and visualizations, cleansing routines, and creating a yoga lifestyle. While designed as an introductory course to yoga, intermediate and advanced postures are also included to help readers build a complete yoga routine.
About the Author
Linda Johnsen, M.S., is one of the most familiar writers in the American yoga community. She has often written for Yoga Journal, and is a Contributing Editor and columnist for Yoga International magazine. Johnsen's books and many feature articles over all aspects of the yoga tradition, and some have been trasnlated into European languages. Over the years, the list of figures she has interviewed reads like a Who's Who of the yoga universe, and includes some of the greatest yoga teachers in the world. In addition, her essays have appeared in nearly a dozen anthologies, among them The Divine Mosaic, The Science of Breath and Yoga Abenteuer Meditation (in Germany). Johnsen has lectured throughout the United States on yoga-related topics, and has been featured in numerous radio programs and on cable television. From 1983 to 1986, she served as Administrator of the Program in Eastern Studies, a fully accredited Master's degree program which focuses on the many facets of the yoga tradition: Hatha yoga postures, stress reduction and breathing exercises, diet, physiology, ethics, philosophy, Sanskrit studies, meditation and research. She is accredited as a yoga teacher by the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy.
