Slow Yoga: For Enhanced Fitness, Strength and Health - Softcover

Brian Payne

9780285636200: Slow Yoga: For Enhanced Fitness, Strength and Health

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0285636200 ISBN 13: 9780285636200

Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd, 2001

Slow Yoga is a revolutionary and enjoyable way to improve your body's health and fitness. Working at your pace, Slow Yoga enhances the benefits of traditional yoga in many ways. In addition to calming your mind, reducing stress and improving flexibility, posture and balance, the exercises and routines explained in this book can help improve muscle tone, strength and endurance. Totally effective and informative practising Slow Yoga regularly will help achive the following: better flexibility, posture and balance, stronger breathing muscles, reducing breathlessness on exertion, improved musle tone and strength, increased stamina and endurance, faster basal metabolism, thereby helping to control your weight, stronger muscles around your joints, reducing the risk of sprains and falls, calmer mind, helping to reduce stress. By following the simple step-by-step instructions, all illustrated in full colour, you will increase your general fitness and well-being, and combined with a healthy diet, decrease the risk of diabetes, coronary heart disease, cancer of the colon, fractures and falls, thus giving yourself the prospect of a happy and healthy life.

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Synopsis:

Slow Yoga is a unique and enjoyable combination of physical exercise used in traditional yoga, and slow, sustained muscular tension, used in strength training. The benefits of traditional Yoga are well documented: it calms the mind and reduces stress; it improves flexibility, posture and balance and strengthens breathing muscles. Slow Yoga produces all these effects, but also allows you to work at your own pace to enhance your body health in many other ways, including improved muscle tone, increased strength and greater endurance. Using easy to follow instructions and step-by-step illustrations, practising Slow Yoga on a daily basis will increase general fitness and well-being, and combined with a healthy diet, can decrease the risk of diabetes, coronary heart disease, cancer of the colon, and fractures and falls.

About the Author:

Dr Brian Payne studied medicine at the Welsh National School of Medicine, and has spent most of his career working as a medical scientist. He began practising tradional Yoga in 1967, and using medical research has developed Slow Yoga to incoporate resistance training, thereby bringing additional benefits into a proven exercise regime.

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