Kiss Guide to Yoga (Keep It Simple) - Softcover

Khalsa, Shakta Kaur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789480344 ISBN 13: 9780789480347

Publisher: Dk Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Kiss the competition goodbye! Exercise and enrich your mind and body with DK's KISS Guide to Yoga. Discover the origins and history of the seven branches of yoga. Understand the benefits of a flexible body and a focused mind. Explore key differences between the disciplines, from Ashtanga to Anusara yoga. Learn about the eight chakras and how to understand and use these energy centers within the body. Follow simple step-by-step instructions for postures and poses. Improve your health and well-being with nutritional tips and meditation techniques. The Keep It Simple Series is the new standard in how-to books! Written by leading experts, each book includes full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, making these the first and only truly accessible guides for beginners. The KISS format is designed to help readers build confidence from the start, and learn gradually and thoroughly to the very last page. Much more than introductions to various subjects, these inspiring and innovative books are the ones that readers can trust!

About this title

About the Author

Shakta Kaur Khalsa began practicing yoga in 1972, and has been teaching Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan since 1976. She is an IKYTA certified Kundalini Yoga instructor, a certified Montessori educator, and a member of Yoga Alliance and Mid-Atlantic Yoga Association. Shakta is an internationally recognized teacher of yoga for both adults and children, and conducts teacher-training programs for children's yoga. In addition, she has authored several books: Fly Like A Butterfly: Yoga For Children (1998) and The Five Fingered Family (1999), and Kundalini Yoga (2001). Her writing has appeared in Mothering magazine and Washington Parent. Shakta lives in Herndon, Virginia with her husband and son. For more information about her work, see www.childrensyoga.com, and www.spiritvoyage.com. Deborah Willoughby is a longtime yoga practitioner and student of Swami Rama of the Himalayas, and his successor, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. She has studied in India as well as in the United States and has been President of the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, since 1994. She is the founding editor of Yoga International magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789480344
• ISBN 13: 9780789480347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352