About this title: Winner of the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Award in the category of Health, Wellness, and Nutrition, this authoritative book correlates the practice and discipline of yoga with modern anatomy and physiology. 230 photographs. 120+ diagrams & anatomical illustrations.
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Description: Brand New in Brand New jacket. Condition: NEW ~ As the West has slowly opened in the past decades to Eastern, experientially-based fields like acupuncture-as part of a greater acceptance of alternative medicine in general-yoga has begun to stake its claim. A study by Dr Dean Ornish, a California-based cardiologist who shared experiences with Sri Satchidananda and whose work was published in 1990 in the prestigious British journal Lancet, showed that a program that combines hatha yoga with ... read more
"Great book for instructors. Picked it up in teacher training and keep it close for quick reference. however, a quick look up turns into a nice long reading."
"I purchased this book, and kept it for a reference, after suffering from acute migraines that turned out to be caused by occipital neuralgia which in turn was caused by spinal/rib mis-alignment. How I got that way is anyone's guess, but being what it was, I spent some time in physical therapy. My therapist who was also trained in yoga, suggested this book to help me understand the importance of alignment and how yoga can improve your physical well-being. It is detailed, almost to the point of overwhelming a non-scientific reader, but it's still readable and well illustrated for those who appreciate and need to know why, like me."
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