This book is ideal for all yoga teachers and trainees looking to create a consistent and personal home yoga practice. Whether you're newly qualified and looking for ways to establish a home practice routine, or have been teaching for a long time and are in need of fresh inspiration, this book is packed with tried-and-tested advice. Alison Leighton and Joe Taft provide logical and practical guidance in how to successfully use a home environment as an effective platform for teaching. They also show how a deep engagement with your own practice can nurture understanding, creativity and intelligence to the benefit of your students. This book also coaches teachers and trainees to engage in rejuvenating exercises in order to avoid the burnout well-known to many yoga teachers.

The definitive guide to creating your own home yoga practice from the leading experts of Yoga Journal. Although yoga studios continue to proliferate, students are increasingly looking to enhance their studio experience with a personal home practice. Yoga at Home not only provides all the ingredients necessary, but this accessible how-to book also offers a visual feast of pose sequences and routines by top instructors and practitioners as photographed in their own homes. This accessible, photo-intensive, practice-oriented book provides everything needed to enrich a home yoga practice, including how to put together a well-rounded practice, how to expand on or vary that practice, and how-to sequences of poses and practices to follow at home. Along with exercises and advice from famous yoga teachers and practitioners such as Seane Corn, Rodney Yee, David Life and Sharon Gannon, Shiva Rea, and Elena Brower, the book features never-before-seen pose sequences showing these teachers practicing their favorite yoga poses in their homes and exploring the ways in which they use their personal spaces to complement their yoga routines. The practical tips, sequencing ideas, and inspiration found in the teachings of yoga—both ancient and contemporary—will resonate with both students and teachers at every level of practice.

America's leading expert on yoga for active people, Sage Rountree, shares her approach to practicing yoga every day in this colorful, lay-flat guide to yoga poses and routines. Flexibility, balance, whole-body strength, recovery, range of motion, focus--a regular yoga practice brings many benefits to people who lead active lives. For athletes in particular, the dynamic stretching of athlete-friendly yoga poses and properly designed yoga exercises can counteract the tightness and imbalances that come from daily workouts. In Everyday Yoga, certified coach and registered yoga teacher Sage Rountree shares the yoga positions and exercises she has developed in her own yoga studio, at Kripalu, and working with active people during her popular yoga clinics around the country. She guides experienced yoga practitioners and yoga beginners on the best ways to design and develop their own at-home yoga routines. Everyday Yoga provides endless opportunities to explore and practice yoga in your own home: How to design yoga sessions to address the whole body or specific areas How to sequence yoga poses for a satisfying practice How to create yoga routines of varying duration from 5 to 50 minutes How to make yoga poses easier or more challenging Each Everyday Yoga routine moves the spine in every direction and loosens tight hips in routines that can last from 5 to 50 minutes, leaving readers satisfied and relaxed. By sequencing several routines together, readers can build stronger, more flexible, injury-resistant bodies.

"The Yoga Practice Guide helps students of any level develop an effective, balanced home practice in a clear, easy to follow format. - Perfect class guide for teachers of yoga. - From beginner to advanced level. - Fully illustrated with all sanskrit names. - Step-by-step manual with a wide variety of postures and sequences. - Restorative and "chair yoga" sequences. - Unique "Modular System" section designed to help you customize a well-rounded practice by choosing from sequences of standing poses, hip openers, back bends, twists, inversions and finishing poses. - Fits your individual needs and schedule. "The Yoga Practice Guide is an invaluable resource for all yogins, students and teachers alike, who wish to be inspired in creating sequences that serve all levels of practitioners. This guide may be used as a reference for home practices and as a tool for teachers who want to explore a comprehensive range of asana in their classes. Bruce's illustrations bring to light the possibilities of asana in the flow of the heart"--Amazon.

Easily practice yoga from home no matter who you are with this simple, illustrated guide. An inspiring twist on integrating yoga and life, Kitchen Yoga cooks up poses and practices to do wherever you are. Inside, yogi Melanie Salvatore-August guides you through a modified Down Dog while awaiting your morning coffee, a Locust pose in the living room, detox practices in the bathroom, and relaxation exercises for nighttime yoga in bed. Easy-to-follow yoga “recipes” coupled with helpful illustrations will transform your simmering stress-filled life into feast for the mind and body. Incorporate a yoga routine into your everyday life with cleansing poses, yoga sequences, breathing methods, detox practices, and meditations. Whether a busy soul or the stay-at-home parent, Kitchen Yoga is the perfect alternative to anyone looking for a quick workout around the house.

Workouts For Home: Strength and Conditioning With Bliss Yoga Techniques For Weight Loss & Detox, Autoimmunity & Healing This is a book that is well timed. It explores all the aspects of yoga that an individual that is interested in starting yoga would want to know. The book takes the reader through the different aspects of yoga step by step starting with a working definition of yoga and who yoga is best suited for. This process is still a mystery to many in the Western World as they simply had no care to learn about it due to religious reasons or otherwise. As things become more integrated however, more and more persons are becoming exposed to yoga and are curious to learn where it all started and how it can be beneficial to them. The author makes every effort to make the information as reader friendly as possible and as interesting as possible to keep the reader engaged in the process. The text gives the novice just enough information to enable them to make an informed decision as to whether or not they will opt to practice yoga or not. There is even a chapter that shows the link between meditation and yoga and how the two work together to get the body and the mind in unison. It is a very informative text. About the Author: Yoga has made quite a comeback in recent years as more and more individuals start to realize the benefits that they can accrue from doing this low impact form of exercise. Alecandra Baldec is well aware of this as she has been practicing yoga for quite a number of years now. It all started when she saw her aunt practicing every day after she had a heart attack. As curiosity got the better of her she asked why her aunt was doing this and was told that is was the best way to get the mind and body in sync and to get rid of built up stress. Alecandra took this a step further and sought to do her own research to find out exactly what the process of yoga entailed...

A holistic method for practicing hot yoga--a new 40-pose series of postures based on modern understandings of anatomy and movement. Bringing hot yoga beyond Bikram and into the 21st century, Beyond Hot Yoga offers a bold new science-backed 40-pose sequence. Built on up-to-date insights on bodily movement--and the understanding that all bodies are different--author, practitioner, and teacher Kyle Ferguson challenges the long-held belief that all yoga poses are right for all people. He also opens up a vital conversation regarding the principles of embodiment and interconnectedness in yoga, doing so with humor, erudition, and tongue-in-cheek wit. More than just a practice guide, Beyond Hot Yoga is a shake-it-up investigation of ideas: it encourages a new exploration of the social nature of human beings, emphasizes the harmony between physical design and mental process, and explores the philosophy of embodiment and the spiritual value of practice. Included are quarantine-tailored adjustments for reaping the benefits of the hot yoga sequence for when you can't get to a class, as well as tips on alignment, postures, and learning to read and listen to your body as you practice yoga.