Yoga Books and Calendars

2013 Yoga Journal Wall Calendar

Yoga Journal Store — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

With 12 months of stunning images this one of a kind wall calendar is sure to take you deeper into your practice and help you transform your body and free your spirit. Each month you will be greeted by a new pose that can serve as your inspiration to keep you positive and practicing.

$6.99

Light on Yoga

Yoga Journal Store — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

The definitive guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga--the ancient healing discipline for body and mind--by its greatest living teacher.

Light on Yoga provides complete descriptions and illustrations of all the positions and breathing exercises. Features a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin.

$18.95

Path of Yoga

Yoga Journal Store — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

This overview of the essentials of Yoga is meant to both broaden and deepen the understanding of beginning students. It covers all the basic elements of this ancient discipline and philosophy of India - including Yoga poses, diet, breath control, meditation, mantras, Kundalini energy, and more. It also includes newly translated excerpts from the scriptures and pays special attention to branches of Yoga, such as Tantra, that are of great interest to Western students but are frequently misunderstood.

$17.95

Woman's Book of Yoga and Health

Yoga Journal Store — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health is the first comprehensive book about women's health issues and how to treat them with yoga. The authors offer a complete yoga program for general health as well as pose sequences that address specific health problems - all in the Iyengar tradition, which targets health needs more than other forms of yoga. For example, in the first part of the book, Patricia Walden has organized three chapters showing yoga poses with clear instructions that tell how to get into each pose and describe its benefits: chapter one is the Essential Sequence for all women, and includes modifications for people who cannot or should not do all the poses; chapter two is the Restorative Sequence for stress relief and relaxation; chapter three contains advanced poses that energize and tone.

The second part is presented in four sections that broadly represent the stages of a woman's life: teen years and early twenties, later twenties and thirties, midlife, and wisdom years. Each section contains chapters offering specific information about a particular health issue from author Linda Sparrowe, as well as sequences of yoga poses from Patricia Walden that address the problem. For example, the back care chapter includes information about common back problems and their causes (scoliosis, arthritis, lordosis, sciatica, kyphosis, among others) with an emphasis on: emotional and psychological roots of some back problems; physiological information about the spine and back muscles; general information about how yoga addresses different areas of the back; and finally, Patricia Walden's sequences of poses that target different back problems with the goal of not only relieving back pain but of strengthening, and healing old injuries and misalignments.

Sections of the book include:
• Teens and Early 20s: Eating disorders, menstrual health, immune support
• 20s and 30s: Back care, pregnancy, headaches
• Midlife: Depression, menopause, digestion
• Wisdom Years: Osteoporosis, postmenopause, the heart

The final section of the book includes listings of yoga centers, instructional videos, yoga equipment, and where to go for more information about yoga.

$27.95

Yoga As Medicine

Yoga Journal Store — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

"Beginning with an overview of the history and science of yoga, Dr. McCall describes the many different techniques in the yoga tool kit; explains what yoga does and who can benefit from it (virtually everyone!); and provides lavishly illustrated and minutely detailed instructions on starting a yoga practice geared to your fitness level and your health status.

Yoga as Medicine offers a wealth of practical information, including how to:

Utilize yogic tools, including postures, breathing techniques, and meditation, for both prevention and healing of illness
Master the art of becoming more in tune with your body
Communicate more effectively with your doctor
Adopt therapeutic yoga practices as either an alternative or a complement to surgery and to expensive, sometimes dangerous medications
Practice safely

Find an instructor and a style of yoga that are right for you. With twenty chapters devoted to the work of individual master teachers, including such well-known figures as Patricia Walden, John Friend, and Rodney Yee, Yoga as Medicine shows how these experts have applied the wisdom of this ancient holistic practice to twenty different conditions, ranging from arthritis to chronic fatigue, depression, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, infertility, insomnia, multiple sclerosis, and obesity. Defining yoga as “a systematic technology to improve the body, understand the mind, and free the spirit,“ Dr. McCall shows the way to a path that can truly alter your life.

An indispensable guide for the millions who now practice yoga or would like to begin, as well as for yoga teachers, body workers, doctors, nurses, and other health professionals."

$21.00

Yoga in America 2012 Market Study

Yoga Journal Store — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

The latest "Yoga in America" study, just released by Yoga Journal shows that 20.4 million Americans practice yoga. In addition, practitioners spend $10.3 billion a year on yoga classes and products, including equipment, clothing, vacations, and media.

Data for this survey, the most comprehensive study of the consumer yoga market available, were collected by Sports Marketing Surveys USA on behalf of Yoga Journal.

The 2012 study indicates that 8.7 percent of U.S. adults, or 20.4 million people, practice yoga. Of current non-practitioners, 44.4 percent of Americans call themselves "aspirational yogis"—people who are interested in trying yoga.

"The number of practitioners and the amount they spend has increased dramatically in the last four years," says Bill Harper, vice president and group publisher of Active Interest Media's Healthy Living Group. "Companies that want to advertise to the health-and-fitness market for women will want to make sure that yoga is a strong segment in their target."

The study also collected data on age, gender, and other demographic and lifestyle factors. Of the yoga practitioners surveyed:

Gender: 82.2 percent are women; 17.8 percent are men.

Age: The majority of today's yoga practitioners (62.8 percent) fall within the age range of 18-44.

Length of practice: 38.4 percent have practiced yoga for one year or less; 28.9 percent have practiced for one to three years; 32.7 percent have practiced for three years or longer.

Level of practice: 44.8 percent consider themselves beginners (22.9 percent are new to yoga; 21.9 percent are beginning to practice yoga after taking some time off); 39.6 percent consider themselves intermediate; 15.6 percent consider themselves expert/advanced.

Motivation for practice: The top five reasons for starting yoga were: flexibility (78.3 percent), general conditioning (62.2 percent), stress relief (59.6 percent), improve overall health (58.5 percent) and physical fitness (55.1 percent).

Download the "Yoga in America" market study today to get all of the details from this comprehensive study.

$495.00

Yoga Journal Book (Paperback)

Yoga Journal Store — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

This book features more than 350 exquisite black-and-white photos by David Martinez, with accompanying text by Linda Sparrowe.

See inspirational yoga teachers such as Patricia Walden, Rodney Yee, Richard Freeman, David Life, Sharon Gannon, Sarah Powers and many others perform both beginning and advanced poses, each one a work of art.

$19.95

Yoga Therapy

Yoga Journal Store — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Most people think of yoga as a solitary activity that is inherently therapeutic. While that is generally true, yoga poses and breathing practices can also be prescribed for specific health problems - often in combination with dietary advice taken from Ayurveda, traditional Indian medicine. Yoga Therapy is an essential guide for yoga teachers, advanced practitioners, and anyone who wants to make therapeutic use of yoga. A. G. and Indra Mohan prescribe postures, breathing techniques, and basic Ayurvedic principles for a variety of common health problems, including asthma, back pain, constipation, hip pain, knee pain, menstrual problems, and scoliosis.

Yoga Therapy is one of the few books that shows yoga teachers how to put together appropriate yoga sequences and breathing techniques for their students. Mohan details how to correctly move into, hold, and move out of poses, how to breathe during practice to achieve specific results, and how to customize a yoga practice by creating sequences of yoga poses for a particular person.

$24.95