Bikram Choudhury

Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class

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Produktbeschreibung

The classic illustrated yoga guide by one of the world's most widely recognized yoga masters has now been revised and updated for the 21st century. Choudhury makes Hatha yoga fun, easy, and completely understandable. 160 photos.

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Sweat, strain, laugh, and do more for your health, body, and general well-being than you even imagined possible as you take your beginning yoga class from Bikram. For more than twenty years, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class has been among the preeminent and most beloved of all yoga guides-and now it has been revised and updated by Bikram, with virtually all-new photographs and an updated section on yoga's medical benefits. With nearly two hundred vivid instructional photographs, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is the perfect guidebook for any student of yoga, either advanced or beginner-a reference that makes Hatha yoga fun, easy, and completely understandable. Illustrated throughout with 160 black-and-white photographs by Biswanath "Bisu" Ghosh

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 202mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781585420209
• ISBN-10: 1585420204
• Artikelnr.: 22084377

Autorenporträt

Born in Calcutta, Bikram Choudhury began studying yoga at the age of four. Bikram's Yoga College operates to overflow capacity in Beverly Hills, New York City, and at other locations around the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Bikram's Beginning Yoga ClassIntroduction
We've Come a Long Way
Getting Started
One: Pranayama Series
Standing Deep Breathing
Two: Ardha-Chandrasana with Pada-Hastasana
Half Moon Pose with Hands to Feet Pose
Three: Utkatasana
Awkward Pose
Four: Garurasana
Eagle Pose
Five: Dandayamana-Janushirasana
Standing Head to Knee Pose
Six: Dandayamana-Dhanurasana
Standing Bow Pulling Pose
Seven: Tuladandasana
Balancing Stick Pose
Eight: Dandayamana-Bibhaktapada-Paschimotthanasana
Standing Separate Leg Stretching Pose
Nine: Trikanasana
Triangle Pose
Ten: Dandayamana-Bibhaktapada-Janushirasana
Standing Separate Leg Head to Knee Pose
Eleven: Tadasana
Tree Pose
Twelve: Padangustasana
Toe Stand Pose
Thirteen: Savasana
Dead Body Pose
Fourteen: Pavanamuktasana
Wind Removing Pose
Fifteen: Sit-Up
Sit-up
Sixteen: Bhujangasana
Cobra Pose
Seventeen: Salabhasana
Locust Pose
Eighteen: Poorna-Salabhasana
Full Locust Pose
Nineteen: Dhanurasana
Bow Pose
Twenty: Supta-Vajrasana
Fixed Firm Pose
Twenty-One: Ardha-Kurmasana
Half Tortoise Pose
Twenty-Two: Ustrasana
Camel Pose
Twenty-Three: Sasangasana
Rabbit Pose
Twenty-Four: Janushirasana with Paschimotthanasana
Head to Knee Pose with Stretching Pose
Twenty-Five: Ardha-Matsyendrasana
Spine Twisting Pose
Twenty-Six: Kapalbhati in Vajrasana
Blowing In Firm Pose
Appendix:
Maintaining Proper Yoga Practice
Medical Advisory