Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga With Rodney Yee - Softcover

Rodney Yee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875969216 ISBN 13: 9780875969213

Publisher: Rodale Press, 2004

Synopsis

Internationally renowned yoga instructor Rodney Yee is the instructor of more than 26 best-selling yoga videos. In Moving toward Balance, he outlines an eight-week program of yoga postures, meditation, and breath awareness designed to lead us toward the emotional and physical balance we all crave in life. Each week introduces a new category of poses--forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions shown with variations to accommodate different levels of strength and flexibility. Along with the instruction, the text explains the significance of each pose and how it contributes on physiological and psychological levels to a complete sense of balance.

At the core of Moving toward Balance is its emphasis on a home practice, enabling you to focus on what works best for your own body. Suitable for yoga students of any level, each lesson is illustrated with full-color photography and is laid out in sequential order, so there is no need to flip back and forth to follow along. There are also chapters on customizing your basic practice to address specific concerns such as lower back pain or PMS, as well as ideas to help keep your newfound practice thriving. Filled with years of Rodney's teaching expertise and more than 300 photographs, Moving toward Balance is the link that you've been searching for between the classroom and the home.

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Review:

"While yoga classes can be illuminating, it is in one's home practice where the depth and subtlety of yoga is cultivated. Moving toward Balance makes an important contribution by presenting a systematic approach to developing and maintaining a yoga practice. It will speak to everyone from beginners to seasoned practitioners." --Patricia Walden, instructor of best-selling yoga videos and contributor to The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health

"A tremendous amount of insight and practical information is housed within these pages, presented in an orderly, thorough, friendly, and truly helpful manner. Rod and Nina have obviously put a lot of work into this book and have done an excellent job. Plus, it has an important, timely, and often overlooked theme at its core: how to practice on your own and learn from it. What better gift could there be from one of the world's premier yoga teachers than to learn how to do what he is doing?" --Erich Schiffmann, author of Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness

"Rodney Yee is the key that opens the door, allowing you to tap into your mind, body, and soul. He is the charge of electricity that channels the flow of energy, allowing endless possibilities to emerge. I am honored to call him my teacher and friend." --Donna Karan

"In Moving toward Balance, Rodney Yee's instructions are clear and full of the practical details that take you step-by-step to an incredible state of being. This book makes me want to unroll my mat and practice right now!" --Richard Freeman, author of The Yoga Matrix and director of the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado

About the Author:

Rodney Yee is one of America's premier yoga teachers and has been featured in Time, People, and USA Today, and on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a co-director of the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, where he teaches public classes and trains yoga teachers. In addition, he travels across the country and around the world to destinations such as England, Bali, Australia, and Mexico to conduct workshops and retreats. Rodney is a coauthor of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body.

Nina Zolotow is a writer and a longtime yoga practitioner who studies with Rodney Yee and other yoga teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a coauthor of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rodale Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0875969216
• ISBN 13: 9780875969213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408