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The Book of Yoga is good for insights and revelations about getting the most out of your yoga practice. It has brief but in-depth readings on the philosophy, breath techniques, healing practices within hatha yoga or the yoga where you do asanas/positions. It also has excellent, clear pictures of asanas. The visualizations and healing yoga techniques are also very good.
Beginners who started out yoga as a physical exercise for stress relief and improving health can use this as a handbook to help them better comprehend what yoga is.
Intermediate yoga practitioners can get some review and also new insights in this book.
For Yoga Teachers, especially those in Western civilizations, this book is a tool for words of wisdom, tips, insights to help your students better understand yoga philosophy
In the back of the book are some visualization practices for meditation and some healing practices of yoga.
There is a chart in the back of the book that suggests a sequence of breath techniques and asanas for various ailments.
Contents:
Part 1 Intro to Yoga
Intro
[History and] Philosophy
Part 2 Practice
Starting the Journey
Yoga Relaxation
Building Awareness
Standing Postures
Forward Bends
Backbends
Twists
Balances
Inversions
Dynamic Yoga
Restorative Yoga
Yoga on a Chair
Structuring Your Practice
Part 3 Pranayama
Pranayama
About Breathing
Part 4 Meditation
Meditation
Mantras and Chanting
Part 5 The Kundalini Path
Chakras
Part 6 Therapeutic Yoga
Therapeutic Yoga
(chart in back gives recommended sequences for practitioners who have: AIDs, Anxiety, Arthritis, Asthma, Back Pain, Cancer, Constipation, Depression, Diabetes, Elderly People, Enlarged Prostate, Fatigue, Fever, Herniated (Slipped) Spinal Disc, Hypertension, Immune Support, Insomnia, Menstrual Disorders, Menstruation, Neck Pain, Obesity, Pregnancy, Stress, Varicose Veins