Yoga for Life

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A practical guide packed with essential advice on how to find the right teacher, how to create a calm environment to practise at home, what to wear and even what to eat.
• Includes recommendations for which types of yoga are most suitable for older bodies, plus step-by-step photographs of simple postures to get you started.
• Shows why yoga is so important for you as you age - strengthening bones, balancing hormones and even helping with mild depression.
Features expert advice from yoga teachers and practitioners backed up by the latest studies and scientific research into yoga's many benefits.
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Yoga is one of the most popular forms of exercise in the world with 30 million people practising regularly. In Yoga for Life bestselling author Josephine Fairley shares her passion for yoga as the ultimate anti-ageing secret and shows why it is especially suited to mid-life and beyond.
As a yoga consumer herself, Jo provides the answers to the questions you really want to ask -... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A practical guide packed with essential advice on how to find the right teacher, how to create a calm environment to practise at home, what to wear and even what to eat.
• Includes recommendations for which types of yoga are most suitable for older bodies, plus step-by-step photographs of simple postures to get you started.
• Shows why yoga is so important for you as you age - strengthening bones, balancing hormones and even helping with mild depression.
Features expert advice from yoga teachers and practitioners backed up by the latest studies and scientific research into yoga's many benefits.
i'lj-.
Yoga is one of the most popular forms of exercise in the world with 30 million people practising regularly. In Yoga for Life bestselling author Josephine Fairley shares her passion for yoga as the ultimate anti-ageing secret and shows why it is especially suited to mid-life and beyond.
As a yoga consumer herself, Jo provides the answers to the questions you really want to ask - based on her own journey to finding the perfect class, the most comfortable top or the right breakfast before an early session.
You'll discover advice on:

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the best postures for a good night's sleep how to avoid injury
yoga poses for different ailments - help treat hot flushes, banish the blues or fix a headache
how to find inner calm
how to put together a yoga sequence
the best meditations for complete
relaxation
where to go for the best yoga holidays the essential kit - from helpful props to yoga CDs


With advice on fitting yoga into your life and reinvigorating your practice if you've lapsed, this is an inspirational, practical and mumbo-jumbo-free guide that will have you on the mat whether you're a beginner or a long-term yoga devotee. Vissza