Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts
Monday, September 8, 2025

The 5 Resets by Aditi Nerurkar

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I've read any number of books that are self-help or related to yoga or about how to decrease your stress. This one isn't necessarily...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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This book was fine but I think it would have been better as an e- or physical book.. I especially enjoyed Burkeman talking about generosity....
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Teaching Yoga by Donna Farhi

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This book begins with a very intellectual bent talking about pedagogy and doing some deep dives into philosophy. Later chapters do get a lit...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

Yoga Inversions by Kat Heagberg Rebar

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I really liked this book. The illustrations are really helpful. The writing gives a great idea of not only how to get into the poses but als...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Your Body, Your Yoga: Learn Alignment Cues That Are Skillful, Safe, and Best Suited To You by Bernie Clark

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The hook for me in this book was that the authors promised new ways of cueing in yoga. We did not get much of that. Instead, this book is mo...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Scientific Keys: The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga Scientific Keys: The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga by Ray Long

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This is definitely a book to have as a hard copy. There is a LOT of great information about muscles, their placement in the body, antagonist...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Healthy Happy Sexy by Katie Silcox

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If you want to read a white woman writing about an ancient practice from another culture, this will be the book for you. This book has some ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Restorative Yoga by Caren Baginski

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I have taken a couple of restorative yoga classes and done one teacher training but figured you can never have too much information about wa...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Yoga Myths by Judith Lassater

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If you've been in yoga for any length of time, you've heard of Judith Hanson Lasater. In a recent podcast I listened to, she mention...
Friday, November 8, 2019

Accessible Yoga by Jivana Heyman

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This book achieves what it sets out in the title/subtitle. We have an introduction to the teacher, to the philosophy, and to the practice. I...
Monday, October 28, 2019

A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook by Bob Stahl, Elisha Goldstein, Saki Santorelli

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I heard about this book in my yoga training many years ago so, when the second edition came up on NetGalley, I jumped at the chance to read ...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Anytime Yoga by Ulrika Dezé

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This is a "fine" book but I did not connect with it and am not sure children would either. The monkey could be fun but isn't w...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity book by Eline Snel

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Get this as a physical book. I got it as an ebook ARC from NetGalley and loading the pages was So Slow. It took up to 5 minutes to load a pa...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Restore and Rebalance by Judith Hanson Lasater

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A nice introduction to restorative yoga. I think it would help to have a little background in yoga, like, this wouldn't be great for ube...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Every Body Yoga by Jessamyn Stanley

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I first "met" Jessamyn Stanley on Instagram and loved her pictures. I saw her book on NetGalley and snatched it up. I loved the bo...
Friday, March 3, 2017

Yoga FAQ by Richard Rosen

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I requested this book through NetGalley because it looked like a nice introductory book into yoga and, quite frankly, had a fun cover. But t...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

The Art of Vinyasa by Richard Freeman; Mary Taylor

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I would definitely skip over the "teaching" sections of this book and go straight to the "practice" sections. Because, w...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

The Miracle of Meditation by Ryuho Okawa

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I should have read the description a bit more and clued in that this was going to be a meditation book with a religious bent. Nothing agains...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Radical Beauty by Deepak Chopra, Kimberly Snyder

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This was a really well-written book and a nice collaboration. The thoughts about setting up beauty as pillars is very reminiscent of yogic p...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

The Yoga Lifestyle by Doron Hanoch

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This is a very earnest book. The author definitely put a lot of thought into how he would lay out his process to living a yogic life. Is it...