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Yoga Books, Health
& Meditation Book Store Books on Yoga,
Health, Meditation and Spirituality
List
of suggested books edited by Marianne Woods
Cirone, M.S., R.Y.T., Certified Yoga Teacher
Yoga
& Meditation Books by Category
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Yoga for Beginners |
Meditation |
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A Morning Cup of Yoga
is the popular new hard back ring-bound book &
CD which provides a 15 minute morning routine. For more on yoga for
beginners, click on
Yoga
Basics.
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The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Experience
is a highly rated guide which provides insights
& techniques. (Click
here for more info on meditation.) |
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Yoga & Weight
Loss |
Bikram Yoga |
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| Spiral-bound
book Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss
by Suzanne Deason is a
companion to the bestselling video. Click for more on
Yoga and Weight Loss. |
Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class
details the 26 poses and breathing techniques of Bikram "hot yoga" classes. For more info on Bikram,
click on Bikram
yoga. |
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Power Yoga |
Prenatal Yoga |
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Journey
into Power by Baron Baptiste offers 54 poses which help to sculpt,
to lose weight and gain peace. For
more on Power yoga click on Power
Yoga.
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Yoga for Pregnancy
is a book which describes the precautions and poses for all three
stages of pregnancy and provides a prenatal yoga program for each
trimester. (Click for more on
Yoga
for Pregnancy.) |
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Yoga for Kids |
Therapeutic Yoga |
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| Babar's Yoga for Elephants
is fun and education book which introduces children
to yoga. (For more on yoga for children, click on Yoga for
Kids.)
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Yoga Rx: A Step by Step Program to Promote Health, Wellness, and Healing for
Common Ailments, by L. Payne, Ph.D and R. Usatine, M.D., offers therapeutic yoga routines. (Click here for more on Therapeutic
Yoga). |
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Yoga for Back Care |
Yoga with
Rodney Yee |
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Back Care Basics: A Doctor's Gentle Yoga Program for Back and Neck Pain Relief
is by Mary Pullig Schatz, a physician and certified Iyengar yoga teacher.
(For more info on yoga for pain,
click on Therapeutic
Yoga). |
In
classic Iyengar style, yoga
guru Rodney Yee details 45 poses with 400 photographs in his book Yoga: The Poetry of the Body. For more on Iyengar yoga, click on
Iyengar. |
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Essays on Yoga |
Yoga Over 50 |
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Geoff Dyer's new book of essays Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It is
called funny and readable spiritual journey. |
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New Yoga for People Over 50 shows yoga practioners in their
50s, 60s, 70s and beyond beautifully practicing a wide range of
yoga poses and teaches the steps. Good for any age! |
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Yoga for Sports |
Kundalini Yoga |
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Yoga for Athletes
teaches the yoga techniques used by a coach to make Olympic and NCAA
champions. (Click
here for more on Sports
and Yoga.) |
Kundalini
Yoga by Shakta Kaur Khalsa explains the techniques used to
uncoil the powerful Kundalini energy. (For more on
this
yoga click Kundalini
Yoga). |
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Yoga Classics |
Ashtanga Yoga |
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On Yoga: Yoga Dipika by
B.K.S. Iyengar is called "the definitive guide to yoga
practice and philosophy." For more information, click on
Iyengar yoga or Yoga
Philosophy. |
Consistently given
the highest ratings, the book Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual
by David Swenson teaches
the primary and intermediate series. For more on Ashtanga,
click on Ashtanga
Yoga. |
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Yoga for
Women |
Yoga and
Meditation |
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The
Woman's Book of Yoga & Health: A Lifelong Guide to Wellness
is a clear, comprehensive book
packed with information on yoga and holistic therapies for health
issues women face at every age. A must for every woman's yoga
library. |
Getting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact with God Through Meditation
by best-selling author Wayne Dyer is a book on meditation with a CD
included. (Click
here for more info on meditation.) |
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Gentle Yoga |
Restorative Yoga |
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American Yoga Association's Easy Does It Yoga
Book targets gentle yoga to the physically challenged or
sedentary. (For more info on gentle yoga, click Gentle
Yoga.) |
Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times
by Judith Lasater (Ph.D , P.T., certified Iyengar yoga
teacher) shows restorative, healing poses. (For more
on restorative yoga, click on Restorative
yoga). |
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Yoga and Psychology |
Yoga
Bestsellers |
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Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, author Stephen Cope interweaves his story of a four-month stay at a yoga center
which grows to ten years, with yogic history and philosophy.
Reads like a great novel. |
Model
Christy Turlington describes how yoga changed her in Living
Yoga: Creating A Life Practice, a beautifully photographed
book of yoga poses, history, and spirituality. (For more on this
book, go to Yoga
Book Reviews). |
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Coffee Table Yoga
Books |
Yoga and Pilates |
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The Spirit of Yoga
is a book so beautiful it should be on a coffee table, yet it is full of
great information too. The glossy photography provides great detail for
yoga beginners. (For more on yoga for beginners, click on Yoga
Basics).
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Learn
a blend of yoga and Pilates to correct poor posture, breathe more
effectively, relieve stress, and tone the entire body with the book Yogilates
by Johnathan Urla. |
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