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Summary: Reader from New York
Review: As a child I practices yoga for years, since then I grew up and became totally plugged and lazy to exercise. My job and life didn't allow for any kind of exercise. As my energy decreased I remembered my childohood. I bought this book and it changed my life. It is by far the best yoga book I have read. It gives full descritions for all levels of proficency, describing in detailed poses breaths and props that may be needed for each move. It also shows illustrations of what to do and what not to do. I liked the anatomy digrams that further explain what positions your body should be in. I also liked thefocus on getting to know your body, and yoga being a 'dance' rather than exercise.
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Summary: I love this book!
Review: As a student and teacher of this ancient practice, I found this book invaluable. The beautiful photos and readable text make a lovely and educational partnership. As it did for me, this book can become a reliable resource of inspiration and instruction. I highly recomend it!!!!---
Ned Christensen--Midway, Utah
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Summary: A Comprehensive guide for students and teachers
Review: I am a yoga practitioner and teacher. I have found this book to be extremely beneficial to my personal practice and my teaching.I teach to many different levels of students often within the same class. By exploring the underlying patterns within the asanas that Farhi discusses, each student learns to modify or deepen their practice according to their own needs. I am able to accomodate a diversified class, and to help fascilitate a richer and more genuine connection to the body.
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Summary: A Comprehensive guide for students and teachers
Review: I am a yoga practitioner and teacher. I have found this book to be extremely beneficial to my personal practice and my teaching.I teach to many different levels of students often within the same class. By exploring the underlying patterns within the asanas that Farhi discusses, each student learns to modify or deepen their practice according to their own needs. I am able to accomodate a diversified class, and to help fascilitate a richer and more genuine connection to the body.
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Summary: a must have book for all yoga practitioner
Review: i am highly recommend this book, alltough this book got no those kind of unbelievable posture but the book explained the very core of the principle of all yoga, very easy to understand, when you have this book actually you are already understand all of other yoga practice.
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Summary: This book can change your Yoga Practice!
Review: I have been doing yoga for about 5 years and this book along with Eric Schiffman's have been revelatory. Donna Farhi helps make your yoga practice more personal (in terms of how to make your practice more internal rather than external), and more spiritual. She's not afraid to talk about the deeper issues of yoga. This is a complete book of Yoga in the sense that it's not just a book about how to get your body into the proper "shapes". While the asana instruction is very easy to follow and precise, it teaches you how to make the asana's come to life through "the Seven moving principles".
These are things that I've not seen before in any other book.
These are : 1. Breathe. Let the breath move you.
2. Yield. Yield to the earth.
3. Radiate. Move from the inside out.
4. Center. Maintain the integrity of the spine.
5. Support. Whatever touches the ground becomes the foundation of support for each asana.
6. Align. Alignment is the clear sequential flow of force through the body.
7. Engage. Engage the whole body. These principles are real eye openers and can bring the asanas alive. She also give ideas on sequencing principle and much much more. It is by far the best book on Yoga I have seen and I've read quite a few! Namaste.
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Summary: this book is thorough!
Review: I have to say Donna Farhi really has done her work. This book has alot of wonderful tips. While I didn't follow them all I found alot of good ideas to enhance my practice. Unfortunately, I left this book on a plane and now need to purchase another. It is one I definitely want to own to refer to every once in awhile for fresh inspiration!
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Summary: A good comprehensive book on yoga
Review: I recently began practicing yoga and I love it! Due to my busy work schedule, I am relegated to doing yoga via videotapes (Yogazone's Introduction to Yoga and Kathy Smith's New Yoga Basics). I wanted a book to learn more about the types of yoga poses and their purpose. This book is excellent because it illustrates numerous poses and variations. More importantly, Ms. Farhi tells you who should or should not be doing that specific pose and she includes illustrations on the right and wrong way of doing various poses. This book is very informative and I would highly recommend it as a reference point for beginners like myself.
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Summary: If I could only buy one yoga book.
Review: I'm a forty-seven year old man who has been practicing yoga for less than a year. In that time I have read quite a few books on the subject. I was surprised to find so many opinions, theories, teachers, schools, and styles. Yet they all seemed to fall short of giving really clear and understandable explanations of the mechanics of body movement. When I read "Yoga, Mind, Body &Spirit" I quickly recognized it to be, by far, the most logical and reasonable approach to yoga study that I had found. Exercises, refered to as Inquiries, help you to learn for yourself the principles that underlie the practice of yoga. This allows you to begin to fashion a practice tailored to your unique body and its current condition. If I had to choose one book to try and explain the techniqes and essence of yoga, this would be the one.
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Summary: Wonderful yoga reference manual!
Review: Since I first began practicing yoga several years ago, I've read a ton of different books on the subject, and so far, this is one of my favorites. Author and yogi Donna Farhi takes some of the best elements from other works and combines them into an extremely readable, practical format. For example, she begins by reviewing the eight-limbed path of yoga and then focusing on a discussion of the "ten living principles" - basically, these are moral and spiritual guidelines from yogic philosophy. She then moves on to the asana limb, or the practice of yoga postures, and introduces seven "moving principles" (breathe, yield, radiate, center, support, align, engage) to assist the reader in gaining a greater body awareness within the poses. Farhi also reviews anatomical information in a way that is much more simple and more accessible than in The Anatomy of Yoga (although this is also a wonderful book).
The second half of the book centers around the yoga asanas themselves. Farhi groups the poses into chapters on standing postures, sitting postures, back bends, arm balances and upside-down poses, and restorative postures and breathing practices. Each chapter begins with incredibly useful information on properly aligning the body, including many wisdoms which I had never seen before. The descriptions of the individual asanas are also enormously helpful; many include variations for those unable to attain the full posture. I particularly liked the suggestions included under the "Having Trouble?" section, as these anticipated common complaints in many of the poses; those who are pregnant will also appreciate the prenatal guidelines given for every pose. For the more difficult postures such as upward bow and reclined hero's pose, Farhi offers prepartory positions, often using various yoga props. Finally, the simple black and white photos provide multiple illustrations for each asana, and I found the companion photos showing "correct" versus "incorrect" versions of the poses to be especially beneficial.
The book ends with a chapter on "Putting It All Together"--ie, sequencing the postures into specific yoga practices. This was the one section of the book that I found to be a bit less helpful, partly because the shortest suggested sequence is an hour long and partly because only the names of the asanas are included here, requiring the reader to flip back to earlier sections of the book for the full pose descriptions. Overall, however, I felt that I learned many new things from this book, and I would highly recommend it to yogis of all levels.
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