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Yoga with Weights For Dummies

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Yoga with Weights For Dummies by Sherri Baptiste merges traditional yoga with strength training, offering readers techniques to enhance flexibility, build strength, and improve overall fitness. Through easy-to-follow exercises, the book guides you in integrating light weights into your yoga practice to amplify health benefits, catering to individuals at various fitness levels.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking to combine the calming practice of yoga with the strength-building benefits of weight training. It's ideal for those wanting to enhance their flexibility, improve muscle tone, and find a balanced approach to wellness that emphasises both mind and body fitness.

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Iron Yoga is a mind-body exercise, that integrates the mindfulness of yoga with the physical culture of body-building. Building on the strengths of both disciplines, this guide shows readers how to safely combine yoga postures while simultaneously working out with lightweight hand-held free weights.

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An easy-to-follow guide to a hot new form of yoga, Yoga with Weights For Dummies is the latest breakthrough in mind-body exercise, integrating the mindfulness of yoga with the physical culture of bodybuilding.

Building on the strengths of both disciplines, this friendly guide shows readers how to safely combine yoga postures while simultaneously working out with lightweight handheld free weights. It features customisable exercises that target specific areas of the body, each illustrated with multiple photos, and provides guidelines for combining healthy eating with workouts.

Sherri Baptiste (Marin County, CA) is the founder of Baptiste Power of Yoga, a nationally recognised method of yoga offered throughout the United States. She teaches yoga classes throughout the United States and hosts retreats around the world.

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Yoga with Weights For Dummies by Sherri Baptiste is noted as a beneficial resource for those interested in blending yoga and strength training to enhance fitness and wellbeing.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780471749370

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 January 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Contributors:

  • With Megan Scott

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 658g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Sherri Baptiste is an inspirational teacher at the forefront of yoga training in the United States. She was born into a rich heritage and family of pioneering teachers; her parents, MagaΓ±a and Walt Baptiste, established yoga on the West Coast in the mid-1950s. Her brother, Baron Baptiste, authored the book Journey into Power: How to Sculpt Your Ideal Body, Free Your True Self, and Transform Your Life With Yoga (Fireside). Sherri has been teaching yoga since her teens and is the founder of β€œBaptiste Power of Yoga,” a nationally recognized yoga method, as well as a yoga-with-weights teacher-training program and a yoga teacher certification and advancing studies program recognized by Yoga Alliance. Sherri presents classes and workshops throughout the United States; she’s a presenter for Western Athletics’ Bay Clubs, Gold’s Gym, Nautilus, Equinox, IDEA World Fitness, Body Mind Spirit, ECA; and she offers many yoga retreats, including retreats at Kripalu, Omega, Haramara, Green Gulch Zen Center, Rancho La Puerta Spa, and Feathered Pipe Ranch. A radio and television personality, she’s featured in video, DVD, and CD β€œPower of Yoga” and β€œPower of Meditation” programs. You can learn more about Sherri at the following Web sites: www.powerofyoga.com and www.yogawithweights.com.

Megan Scott, PhD, is a doctor of integrative medicine, sports rehabilitation, and clinical psychology specializing in advanced healing techniques. She has 20 years of training and practice in mind-body, self-regulation techniques. Dr. Scott combines her knowledge of science and self-healing in her clinical settings, highlighted by using the left/right brain neuro rebalancing technique for self-healing. She teaches at California Pacific Medical Center, the Institute for Health and Healing, and the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry. She’s also a founder, director, and contributing researcher at the Chronic Pain Institute. In her private practice, she teaches Anusara yoga and yoga therapy classes, biofeedback training, and alternative psychotherapy. Her mission is to assist her students in discovering their own greatness and to awaken her students’ passion for yoga and all its gifts.

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