Yoga for Beginners: Simple Yoga Poses to Calm Your Mind and Strengthen Your Body

by Cory Martin

Overview

Learn Yoga in Your Own Home

Yoga for Beginners is the essential guide to getting started with yoga. With a friendly voice and step-by-step instructions, this book offers everything you need to start enjoying yoga's calming and strengthening effects on your life. Complete beginner's guide to getting started with yoga Simple instructions for the 35 essential yoga poses Full-color yoga illustrations 5 restorative yoga meditations Nutrition tips to complement your yoga practice Guide to building your own yoga sequences

Take a deep breath. Yoga for Beginners will do the rest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623156466
Publisher:	Callisto Media
Publication date:	08/10/2015
Pages:	220
Sales rank:	79,293
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Cory Martin has a B.A. in English-Creative Writing, and spent time studying literature at Cambridge University in England. By the age of twenty-five, she had garnered writing credits on the hit television show, The O.C. and had been asked by Scholastic to pen three young adult novels based on the same T.V. series. She is the author of Love Sick, a memoir about dating, life in Hollywood, and dealing with MS. Her essays have appeared online with XOJane, The Mighty, and Elephant Journal.

As a passionate yogi, Cory Martin is also a 500-hr RYT and a regular instructor at the famed Santa Monica Pier's run and yoga program, ROGA. She teaches at various studios around Los Angeles and is the writer behind the documentary film Titans of Yoga.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 6

Preface 8

Chapter 1 Basics 11

Chapter 2 Practice 31

Chapter 3 The Essential Yoga poses 61

Chapter 4 Sequences 139

Chapter 5 Nutrition 165

Chapter 6 Meditation 175

Chapter 7 Yoga for You 193

Yoga Pose Library 206

Glossary 212

Resources 214

Index 215