Your Year of Yoga

Your Year of Yoga: Learning to Love Practice inspires and empowers its readers to establish and maintain a skillful, personal Yoga practice in their own home. Āsana (postures) and Prāṇāyāma (breathing) are woven into four sections of practice for Beginners. The reader will learn to have a successful and consistent home practice that will support them in the life-long practice of navigating the changing nature of life. Simple modifications and alternatives to the poses are offered for bodies that experience stiffness, knee, hip, low back, neck and shoulder issues and menstruation. Restorative sequences are provided for days when the reader is unable to do an active practice. Teachers of Yoga will use the sequences to progress their beginning level students through the first level of practice. By practicing the modifications given for each pose in the laboratory of their own practice, teachers will learn how to accommodate students with common conditions into their general classes. The bedrock of Yoga is its philosophy. Each section includes a study guide of Yoga philosophy to help the reader learn how to live a Yogic life.