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Book cover image of Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee by Rodney Yee

Authors: Rodney Yee, Michal Venera (Photographer), Nina Zolotow
ISBN-13: 9780875969213, ISBN-10: 0875969216
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc.
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Rodney Yee

Rodney Yee is one of America's premier yoga teachers and has been featured in Time, People, and USA Today, and on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a co-director of the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, where he teaches public classes and trains yoga teachers. In addition, he travels across the country and around the world to destinations such as England, Bali, Australia, and Mexico to conduct workshops and retreats. Rodney is a coauthor of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body.

Nina Zolotow is a writer and a longtime yoga practitioner who studies with Rodney Yee and other yoga teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a coauthor of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body.

Book Synopsis

Internationally renowned yoga instructor Rodney Yee is the instructor of more than 26 best-selling yoga videos. In Moving toward Balance, he outlines an eight-week program of yoga postures, meditation, and breath awareness designed to lead us toward the emotional and physical balance we all crave in life. Each week introduces a new category of poses--forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions shown with variations to accommodate different levels of strength and flexibility. Along with the instruction, the text explains the significance of each pose and how it contributes on physiological and psychological levels to a complete sense of balance.

At the core of Moving toward Balance is its emphasis on a home practice, enabling you to focus on what works best for your own body. Suitable for yoga students of any level, each lesson is illustrated with full-color photography and is laid out in sequential order, so there is no need to flip back and forth to follow along. There are also chapters on customizing your basic practice to address specific concerns such as lower back pain or PMS, as well as ideas to help keep your newfound practice thriving. Filled with years of Rodney's teaching expertise and more than 300 photographs, Moving toward Balance is the link that you've been searching for between the classroom and the home.

Table of Contents

An Offeringvi
On Taking a Chancevii
About Yoga and Balanceix
Part 1Before You Practice1
Part 28 Weeks of Yoga19
About the 8-Week Program21
Week 1Being Present31
Week 2Awakening Connection75
Week 3Opening into Vulnerability123
Week 4Allowing Receptivity167
Week 5Facing the Unknown211
Week 6Listening Inward253
Week 7Changing Orientation291
Week 8Moving toward Balance325
Part 3Customizing Your Practice347
Part 4Keeping Your Practice Thriving369
Acknowledgments390
Index392

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