Modern Yoga Bible

by Christina Brown

Overview

Get the most out of your yoga workout!

The Modern Yoga Bible details up-to-date yoga practices and techniques that increase flexibility and strength, relieve stress, and calm the mind. Inside you'll find a complete step-by-step guide to active flowing sequences (vinyasa flow yoga), slower, more restorative floor-based postures (yin yoga), and meditation. It's an enormous amount of instruction, including:

 • Advice for beginners as well as expert tips for yogis wishing to deepen their practice
 • An emphasis on newer poses and active flowiing sequences
 • Guidelines for combining poses to create your own complete and balanced home yoga practice
 • Guidance on how to modify poses to suit your individual needs and experience
This exceptional book stands on its own, or works as the perfect complement to Christina Brown's original category bestseller, The Yoga Bible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440345555
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/19/2017
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	1,102,946
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 6.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christina Brown qualified as a yoga instructor at the Sivananda Ashram in southern India in 1995. She has also trained in Iyengar Yoga at the Sydney Yoga Center and in Deradun, India, and in yoga therapy at the Yoga Therapy Center in London. She currently teaches yoga in Sydney, Australia, and holds a degree in complementary medicine from the Natural Care College in Sydney. Christina is the author of the best-selling book The Yoga Bible.

Table of Contents

Ancient wisdom for modern life: Atha 6

Part 1 Introduction 8

Part 2 Yoga body: yang - the active practices 26

1 Luscious limbering 28

2 Delicious dogs 56

3 Sun salutes 68

4 Stable and steady: standing postures 86

5 Balancing balms 112

6 Strong neck, stretchy shoulders 128

7 Flexible forward folds 150

8 Juicy twists 168

9 Strong, stretchy sides 184

10 The joy of core 198

11 Happy hips 214

12 Blissful backbends 228

13 Upside-down 252

Part 3 Yoga energy: yin - the quiet practices 280

14 Restorative yoga 282

15 Yin yoga 304

16 Yoga breath 328

17 Relaxations to revel in 346

Part 4 Yoga mind 360

18 In the mood: meditations 362

19 Putting it all together 376

Glossary 390

Index 392

Acknowledgements 400