About the Book: Ten-year-old Badri joins a yoga school. Unexpectedly, Badri discovers that his school friend is searching for his mother, and his senior is performing magic. Concurrently, his guru relates wonderous tales of his travel and sketches a ladder of peace for his students to climb. As Badri learns this ancient wisdom, he must overcome his limitations, help his friend and kingdom, and understand the teachings of great sages. Most importantly, Badri must uncover the message and science of yoga in this endearing story of distractions during these seven years of transformation. If a storybook can roll in the logic of yoga – from Bhagavad, Patanjali, Hatha, and Chakra - this would be it. Search no further for the fountain of peace! About the Author: Dr. Gnan Thakore is a neurologic intensive care physician at the Neuroscience Institute in Dayton, Ohio. Passionate about yoga since a young age, Dr. Gnan Thakore obtained the Yoga certification RYT 300 with the support of Dr. Paul Gerard of the Aura Wellness Center and now teaches Yoga in Dayton, where he resides with his family. Dr. Thakore is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Wright State University. Teaching medical students and residents, he follows the approach he takes for yoga and his writing of this book. What do we practice? And why? How do we interpret results and integrate new information? His hobbies include backpacking, reading, and writing.

Once you have learned the basics of yoga, where do you go? This book has been written for teachers and serious practitioners who want to use yoga to bring complete balance to the body. Stiles provides a comprehensive overview of the spiritual philosophy of yoga and its many branches, and discusses everything that a beginning student needs to consider when choosing a practice, including how to find a yoga teacher. Then he shares his solid understanding of anatomy and kinesiology (how specific muscles and bones react during movement) so that you can understand how each asana affects your body.

This book is both the record of a personal journey and a transformational teaching. Readers will find meditations, prayers, teaching stories, breathing practices, a user's guide for the mind, an introduction to ancient Ayurvedic health principles, and more.

Wouldn’t it be great if your child could exercise, have fun, and build concentration skills all at the same time? In 2006, the Little Flower Yoga program was developed by teacher and certified yoga instructor Jennifer Cohen Harper, when her successful use of yoga in her kindergarten classroom led to requests by other students, teachers, and administrators for yoga programs of their own. Harper slowly began to teach more and more yoga classes, and eventually recruited other yoga teachers with education backgrounds to continue growing what had become a flourishing program. Little Flower Yoga for Kidsoffers this fun and unique program combining yoga and mindfulness in an easy-to-read format. Written specifically for parents and kids, the book aims at teaching children to pay attention, increase focus, and balance their emotions—all while building physical strength and flexibility. Based on a growing body of evidence that yoga and mindfulness practices can help children develop focus and concentration, the simple yoga exercises in this book can easily be integrated into their child’s daily routine, ultimately improving health, behavior, and even school achievement. The book details the five main components of the program: connect, breath, move, focus, and relax. Drawing on these components, Harper shares practical activities that parents can use with their children both on a daily basis and as applied to particularly challenging issues. And while this book is targeted to parents, teachers may also find it extremely useful in helping students achieve better attention and focus. For more information about this innovative program, visit www.littlefloweryoga.com.

A Journey to Peace Through Yoga tells the story of Lynnette Dickinson and her journey through near bankruptcy, relationship breakdown, house fire, migra- tion to the UK, teaching in an inner-city school in Bristol, her father's death and finally her descent into MS and a wheelchair.This is the true story of a woman's journey through Multiple Sclerosis, using the power of her mind and the tools of yoga and meditation to manage the symptoms and associated stress of MS. An inspiring journey of self discovery, this book is about the transformation of our experiences of life, regardless of circumstances.Lynnette's journey to peace is a but a spark of the potential we all have to find greater peace and harmony in our lives, it offers a clear and logical explanation for the reason why the majority of people fail to realise their full and unlimited human potential.

The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted to the needs of the individual. • A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher. • This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya that capture the essence of his teachings. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Elements of Krishnamacharya's teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga. Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya's fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual's changing needs to achieve the maximum therapeutic value. In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar offers a distillation of his father's system as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as "a program for the spine at every level--physical, mental, and spiritual." This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga. Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga--poses and counterposes, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy--and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle. This is a revised edition of The Heart of Yoga.