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See also: Exercise Therapy
Selected Books
Yoga for Computer Users: Healthy Necks, Shoulders, Wrists, and Hands in the Postmodern Age
RM727.Y64 B53 2008
Blaine presents poses, exercises, and breathing and relaxation techniques that increase circulation and range of motion, improve posture, and restore vitality.
Babar's Yoga for Elephants
Babar the elephant demonstrates and provides step-by-step instructions for basic yoga techniques and positions, then shows how he and Celeste use them to relax and have fun as they travel around the world.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga
RA781.7.B83 2006x
A yoga book anyone can use explains how basic stretching, meditation, and breathing exercises increase body flexibility, relax tense mind and muscle, and improve life productivity and self-satisfaction. Contains step-by-step, easy-to-follow diagrams of the standard yoga moves.
Iron Yoga
RA781.68.C37 2005
Combine yoga and strength training for weight loss and total body fitness. A video of Iron Yoga is also available.
Yoga Anatomy
This second edition of Yoga Anatomy provides you with a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement and of yoga itself.
Yoga as Medicine
RM727.Y64 M43 2007
Yoga as therapy for the mind and body is covered in this book.
Yoga: Awakening the Inner Body
q RA781.7.M693 2006x
This book is on Iyengar-style yoga allows the user to tailor the exercises to his/her specific needs.
Ageless Yoga: Gentle Workouts for Health & Fitness
RA781.7.P446 2006
Best-selling author Juliet Pegrum (Ashtanga Yoga, Kid Yoga) shows over-50s how to slow down the aging process, bringing body, mind, and spirit into harmony with this wonderfully simplified, beautifully safe, fully illustrated approach to yoga.
Mastering the Secrets of Yoga Flow
RA781.7.S947 2004
A unique program to improve focus, achieve peace, and reach full physical and mental potential.
Moving Toward Balance: 8 weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee
RA781.7.Y438 2004
An internationally known yoga instructor outlines an eight-week program of basic yoga postures, meditation, and breath awareness intended to lead practitioners toward balance--physical, emotional, and psychological.
Return to the topYoga on DVDs
Feeling stiff and sore, achy and awful? Are you cramped, compressed, and complaining? Loosen up, stretch out, and grumble less with the help of our collection of instructional yoga DVDS.
For more books and DVDs on yoga
Two yoga programs designed to release tension, calm nerves, and enhance circulation.
Presents an in-home yoga workout combining postures, breathing exercises, and calisthenics.
Presents an in-home yoga workout combining postures, breathing exercises, and calisthenics.
A yoga routine appropriate for all ages and ability levels, covering floor exercises, standing poses, and guided relaxation.
A beginner's guide to incorporating an exercise ball with yoga.
A toning and shaping yoga routine consisting of a warm-up, twenty minutes of vinyasa (standing poses to strengthen and lengthen the body), followed by ten minutes of flexibility-based postures. The program ends with a relaxing meditation segment.
Three complete workouts featuring Rodney Yee and Suzanne Deason.
An introduction to yoga, featuring basic postures and emphasizing proper alignment, balance, flexibility, and focus.
Advanced yoga instruction combining classical and contemporary postures with a higher level of refinement toning and aerobic activity, using three types of sun salutations for warming up, seven major standing poses, plus backbends, forward bends, twists, and tonic inversion poses.
An introduction to yoga, consisting of an easy-to-follow series of classical yoga postures.
Presents a mixed yoga and Pilates workout that the viewer can customize by selecting from a variety of segments available via the DVD's interactive menu.
Presents a yoga routine designed to protect the back and improve posture.
Presents a low-key yoga routine designed especially for older people.
Presents a low-key yoga routine designed especially for older people.
Presents two exercise routines that combine elements of yoga and dance: a standing routine designed to build strength and generate energy and a floor routine for strengthening and toning while restoring focus and releasing stress.
Intended for beginners, this program presents the basic movements of yoga.
Leslie Sansone teaches the easiest way to perform standard yoga poses, showing modifications and variations for all fitness levels, how to improve overall physical strength, range of movement, flexibility and stamina, and how to increase the mind/body connection to help cope with daily stress.
Websites
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Yoga Alliance
A nonprofit organization whose mission is to lead the yoga community, set standards, foster integrity, provide resources, and uphold the teachings of yoga. You can find teachers and schools that meet their standards on their website and find out how to find a yoga teacher to fit your lifestyle. -
Yoga Journal
The website of the print magazine offers a pose finder to find asanas by anatomical focus, therapeutic application, or contraindication, or just browse poses by name. Also a Yoga 101 for those new to yoga.
Pittsburgh Resources
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3rd Street Yoga
Located in Carnegie. -
Amazing Yoga
Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga studio. 2 locations in Shadyside and Monroeville -
BYS Yoga
Located on the South Side -
FitWell Studios
A Pilates and yoga studio serving Wexford, Cranberry, and Pittsburgh. -
Schoolhouse Yoga
Yoga offers ongoing classes in Ashtanga, Hatha and Kundalini yoga for a wide range of experience and skill levels. Flexible class passes are available. Lawrenceville and Squirrel Hill. -
Three Rivers Yoga Institute
The Three Rivers Yoga Institute was founded in 1993 by Robert Barton & Yamuna Devi, and is the Western Pennsylvania's oldest established facility offering ongoing Yoga classes and programs. -
Yoga Hive
Located in the Glass Lofts at 5491 Penn Avenue in Friendship. -
Yoga H'Om
Located in Oakdale, midway between downtown Pittsburgh, PA and the Pittsburgh International Airport. -
Yoga Matrika
Located in Squirrel Hill, Yoga Matrika focuses on classes for women; including women only luna yoga, pre-natal, post-natal, baby-and-me, and mommy-and-me workshops. -
Yoga on Centre
Formerly Shadyside Yoga, now located at 6016 Penn Circle South, off Centre Avenue. Offers certified Iyengar Yoga Instruction. -
Yoga on the Square
Formerly Fitness Yoga. Located on Braddock Avenue in Regent Square.
