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Your Body, Your Yoga

Learn Alignment Cues That Are Skillful, Safe, and Best Suited To You
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Your Body, Your Yoga by Bernie Clark is a unique resource in the realm of yoga practice, focusing on individual anatomy and its impact on yoga alignment and practice. The book explores how different bodies mean different yoga experiences and aims to empower readers to tailor their practice to better suit their personal physical needs. Combining scientific insights with practical guidance, this book encourages a more mindful and informed approach to yoga.
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If you're intrigued by how yoga can be tailored to individual body structures, this book offers insights into anatomical considerations and variations. It may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring the scientific aspects of yoga practice and how they relate to your unique physical needs for a more personalised experience.

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Your Body, Your Yoga goes beyond any prior yoga anatomy book available. It looks not only at the body's unique anatomical structures and what this means to everyone's individual range of motion, but also examines the physiological sources of restrictions to movement.

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Your Body, Your Yoga goes beyond any prior yoga anatomy book available. It looks not only at the body's unique anatomical structures and what this means to everyone's individual range of motion, but also examines the physiological sources of restrictions to movement.

Two volumes are provided in this book:

Volume 1 raises a new mantra to be used in every yoga posture: What Stops Me? The answers presented run through a spectrum, beginning with a variety of tensile resistance to three kinds of compressive resistance. Examined is the nature of muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments, joint capsules, bones, and our extracellular matrix and their contribution to mobility. The shape of these structures also defines our individual, ultimate range of movement, which means that not every body can do every yoga posture. The reader will discover where his or her limits lie, which dictates which alignment cues will work best, and which ones should be abandoned.

Volume 2 will take these principles and apply them to the lower body, examining the hip joint, the knee, ankle, and foot, and will present how your unique variations in these joints will show up in your yoga practice.

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Your Body, Your Yoga by Bernie Clark has received widespread acclaim for its insightful and scientifically-informed approach to yoga practice. Reviewers praise the book for challenging traditional alignment principles, emphasizing the need for tailored yoga practices suited to individual anatomical differences. Many regard it as essential reading for both yoga teachers and practitioners, highlighting its comprehensive coverage of anatomy and biomechanics as well as its potential to revolutionize the understanding of yoga.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780968766538

Publisher: Wild Strawberry

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2016

Country: Canada

Imprint: Wild Strawberry

Illustration: 15 color photos, 490 color illustrations, 17 charts, 27 tables

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Paul Grilley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 292.0mm

Weight: 907g

Pages: 325

About the Author

Bernie Clark author of the best selling The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga, has had a passion for science, health, sports and spirituality since childhood. He has a degree in science from the University of Waterloo and spent over 25 years as a senior executive in the high-tech/space industry. Bernie has been investigating the path of meditation for over three decades and began teaching yoga and meditation in 1998. He conducts yoga teacher trainings several times a year and aims to build bridges between the experiences of yoga and the understandings of modern science. He is creator of the YinYoga.com website. Bernie lives and teaches in Vancouver, Canada.

Paul Grilley, creator of the influential DVD Anatomy for Yoga, began practicing yoga in 1979 after reading "The Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananada. He moved to Los Angeles in 1982 where he studied and taught yoga for 12 years. His special interest is the teaching of anatomy. He is the initial popularizer of the style of yoga called yin yoga, and patterns his philosophy on the writings and researches of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama - a yogi and scientist from Tokyo, Japan. This philosophy integrates the Taoist meridian and acupuncture theories of China with the yogic and tantric theories of India. Paul started his studies of anatomy with Dr. Garry Parker in 1979. He continued his studies at UCLA where he took courses in anatomy and kinesiology. He earned a M.A. from St. John's College, Santa Fe in summer 2000 and an Honorary Ph.D. in 2005 from the California Institute for Human Science for his efforts to clarify the latest theories on fascia and its relevance to the practice of hatha yoga.

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