Exercise Nutrition

"Tuck your tailbone to protect your back." "Increase your breath." "Pull your abdominal muscles into your backbone." Following these movement cues is often believed to benefit your yoga practice and protect your body when entering and holding poses. However, what may seem like a helpful correction can actually lead to injury or physical harm. In Yoga Myths, Judith Hanson Lasater draws on almost fifty years of experience as a yoga instructor and physical therapist to address the most common mistakes in our yoga practice and provide clear instructions for correcting these errors.

If you can ride a bike across town, you can ride across the country. And all that spandex? It's totally optional. With this book, learn what to eat, where to sleep, how to find a route that works for you, what to pack, crack logistics for transporting your bike, the all-important psychology of touring, and why training sucks.

We all know what it's like to have a "charge" about something. It's a feeling of excitement, fear, sexual arousal, or irritation. But what we don't currently know is how to use charge for the behaviors we want to create. Charge is a word for the basic life force running through us. This force is crucial if we are to meet the challenges of difficult situations, heal past wounds and traumas, and manage the stress of modern life. Even more, it is essential for understanding how to master your own life force and become all you can be.

Tone your muscles, improve your flexibility, and feel amazing using this easy-to-follow program that only takes 15 mins each day! In the 100 years since it was invented, hundreds of thousands of people have benefitted from Pilates' simple, but highly effective, exercises that target specific muscles to transform your body. This incredible guide will revolutionize your fitness goals and help you shift your mindset from hating exercise to loving it, so you can focus on feeling good every day.

Nine million Americans are touched by aneurysms during their lifetimes. This is one story of love. Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of the author's harrowing experience of an aneurysm and his road to recovery. It is a journey of love and devotion and a clash of medical beliefs and countercultures.

This modern and practical guide is designed for both beginners and advanced practitioners, offering an in-depth exploration of the ancient teachings of the Yoga Sutras. The Daily Guide to the Yoga Sutras is unique in that it offers an interactive experience through external resources that link the listener to meditations and physical practices that bring each sutra to life. This book is filled with insights that encourage introspection, self-discovery, and personal growth.

Dr. Eric Goodman’s innovative approach to self-healing—Foundation Training—has helped celebrities, athletes, first responders, and regular folks around the world feel and look better, and kept them active and fit. The core of Foundation Training is a unique form of biomechanics—a series of postures, poses, and movements designed to teach the body’s individual muscles to act within strong, flexible chains of muscles, shifting the burden of support away from sensitive joints. Foundations of Health builds on this core program.

Unleash the transformative power of Chair Yoga in just 28 days, even if you've spent a lifetime feeling trapped by your own body. Lose weight, gain flexibility, and improve balance from the comfort of your chair! Are you struggling with losing weight? Are aging-related physical limitations keeping you from enjoying activities you once loved? You’re not alone. Many seniors feel trapped in a body that no longer matches their vibrant spirit. But what if you could regain agility, strength, and flexibility without jeopardizing your safety?

Royal Yoga is the highest and most important of the yoga traditions—an all-embrracing path to personal transformation that reaches beyond any approach to wellness and healing that exists today. Whatever you are doing to enhance your life, Royal Yoga can bring you more of everything you want; it brings every experience, no matter how small, into the light. By learning to live in the light, you deliberately and consciously accept your true self as a being of infinite possibilities, unfettered by worry or self-doubt.

Ready to achieve what so many want, but so few have? Achieving 200 consecutive squats is an incredible show of strength that very few ever manage to accomplish.

French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.

Sadhguru visionario, místico y yogui presenta la ciencia clásica del yoga a los lectores occidentales. Esta disciplina, tal y como Sadhguru la expone, es un medio para que creemos situaciones internas exactamente tal y como las queremos, convirtiéndonos así en los arquitectos de nuestra propia alegría.

The Art of Vinyasa takes a unique look at Ashtanga yoga as meditation in motion that produces profound inner change. Two of the most well-respected teachers of the Ashtanga style of yoga, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, explore this rigorous practice not as a gymnastic feat but as a meditative form.

Want to lose 20 pounds, feel great, and look more attractive without strenuous exercises or hunger? This guide will show you proven step-by-step techniques and recipes to allow you to lose 20 pounds in 10 minutes or less and regain your confidence and look more attractive than ever before!

If a restful night's sleep seems like an impossible dream, it's time to discover the transformative power of Yoga Nidra. "Yoga Nidra Meditations for Sleep" is your key to unlocking a world of tranquility and deep, healing rest.

There is no better time than now to enhance your physique to the standard that you desire. This book will help guide you on your endeavors to a more healthy and fit lifestyle while highlighting some of the intricacies that you may have to maneuver to achieve your set goals. Gaining a deeper comprehension is just the beginning steps of starting your journey to a more enriched lifestyle.

The world-renowned fitness coach on the hit TV show The Biggest Loser presents his winning approach to lasting weight loss by showing how to get at the root of your overeating problem, followed by a nutritionally savvy diet and unique exercise plan.

I want to share a truth that transcends mere words: fitness is not bound by age; it is liberated by intention. Our bodies, resilient vessels that have carried us through decades, yearn for movement, purpose, and vitality. The half-century mark is not an endpoint; it's a gateway to a new chapter—one where strength, agility, and joy await. "Functionally fit"—these two words encapsulate a philosophy that defies stereotypes. It's not about chasing youth; it's about embracing wisdom. It's not about six-pack abs; it's about the ability to rise from a chair with grace and hike a mountain trail...

This book provides tried-and-true procedures and ideas for improving your exercise and healthy lifestyle improve memory and brain function. It offers information about the best brain workouts and how to practice them.

B.K.S. Iyengar, whose teachings on yoga are followed throughout the world, reflects upon his lifetime's experience on the yoga path. The structure of the book follows the different aspects of that path (from Freedom Awaits, through The Physical Body, The Energy Body, The Mental Body, The Intellectual Body, and The Divine Body, to Living in Freedom) and provides a learning framework for yoga as well as an invaluable discourse on life.