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| |  | Yoga and Fitness | Home » » » Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness | | | | | | | Description: | | Provides simple instruction and demonstrative illustrations to introduce a technique that combines hatha yoga and meditation in order to slow the aging process, decrease stress, promote creativity, and improve mental and physical health. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780671534806
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Erich Schiffmann | | Paperback:
| 384 pages | | Publisher:
| Gallery | | Publication Date:
| December 01, 1996 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0671534807 | | Package Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 62 reviews |
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Excellent of courseAug 14, 2010
I as always got great service from amazon!Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into StillnessThis book is great for taking yoga out of the gym & into something meaningful & not just another sweaty activity.
Excellent Yoga BookJul 20, 2010
Erich has created an amazing text full of informative poses and concepts. He masterfully describes how to enter poses and keep your self aligned properly. Also the benefits of each pose are listed so you can determine what poses to use for certain issues. My favorite part of the book are chapters 7 and 8. In chapter 7 he describes in my opinion the "real essence" of yoga by elaborating on how you get the energy to flow in the poses. This is the real aim in that you are trying to get a release. If you follow his lead here you will discover it for yourself. He follows in chapter 8 with the concepts of the edge and how to protect yourself once you have established the pose.
I highly recommend this book for any yoga teacher or student.
This is a classic text!
Great book on yoga!Jun 01, 2010
My yoga instructor often referred to this book and I thought I would buy it. I'm glad I did! Erich Schiffman goes into great detail about the breath, meditation and especially the benefits of each asana. He explains in detail how to do the different poses and even has a sample home practice for an overall workout. I recommend this book for anyone, whether new to yoga or a seasoned practioner.
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One of the best books on yoga out thereMay 11, 2010
This is an excellent how-to for just about anyone interested in learning about hatha yoga as experience, both as pose and meditation. Even if you've been practicing for many years (as indeed I had been when I purchased this book), you will learn a lot.
Schiffmann does not rush into a discussion on asanas as most books on yoga do. Instead, he spends the first eighty or so pages talking about the intangibles needed for each pose, including the right mindset, breathing techniques, body awareness of tension (or prana) in each pose, and the intuition to work with those tensions to become more comfortable with and aware of oneself in a pose.
Only then does he discuss the experience and benefits of many basic poses, including standing poses, sun salutations, backbends, forward bends, inversions, twists, and shoulder and hip openers. He talks about how to move into each pose, introduces preparatory stretches to each pose, and details how to deepen a pose into another stage once the body has become more experienced and flexible with time. Each pose and its different stages are depicted with photos and just enough biology in Schiffmann's accessible prose to ensure that the reader knows what body part should be where. His very useful concluding chapters on meditation are more or less non-denominational and in any event genuine, and so likely to speak to everyone, spiritual agenda or no.
He emphasizes self-acceptance as a road to self-discovery (rather than self-discovery as a road to self-transformation) by encouraging the reader to let themselves experience exactly where they are in a pose on any given day. The clear overtone is that accepting how we experience a pose right here, right now, opens the door to understanding, accepting, and even savoring who we are.
Definitely make room for this book in your budget.
this book changed me!May 05, 2009
great as a manual for beginers but also an insight in philosophy of yoga... great to read as an inspirational book so buy it even if you not gona practice
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