Iyengar Yoga the Integrated and Holistic Path to Health

This is a must-have book for yoga practitioners, teachers, studio owners, and health care providers as it confirms the benefits and effects of Iyengar-style yoga practice.

Teaching and information topics include:

- Concise overview of the many aspects of yoga
- Vast amount of computer drawn illustrations and more than 500 photographs depicting the yoga postures
- Self-study guide to the yoga poses including seventy basic foundation postures with descriptions, techniques, and benefits
- Fifteen original sequences of postures with different purposes and themes to carry the practitioner through a diverse personal practice
- Five variations of the well known aerobic Sun Salutation
- Discussion of how to perform and understand the physical postures, rhythmic controlled breathing, meditation, relaxation, postural alignment, stress management, and philosophy
- Common questions typically asked by yoga students with related answers
- Brief treatise of beginning basics in anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology
- Eight well-known and simple mantras (chants)
- Artful collection of photos demonstrating postures beyond beginners level