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Power Yoga
Tens of thousands of athletes know Beryl Bender Birch, Wellness Director for the New York Road Runners Club, as the teacher who showed them that yoga could protect them from injuries and improve their athletic performance. In Power Yoga, the first book on astanga yoga, a unique form of hatha yoga designed to build strength and stamina, Birch brings the ancient spiritual an...more
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Birch's brand of "Power Yoga" is, simpley put, the Ashtanga Yoga as practiced by K. Pattabhi Jois and his disciples. What makes this book unique is Birch herself, and her story of how she came to yoga, and then to Ashtanga. Her introduction is a fascinating slice of what yoga in the late 20th century was to America—from hippy cults who rode the bandwagons of various gurus, to hatha systems that constantly broke poses up with moments of rest, to the Joisian flow that Norman Allen brough...more
Yoga isn't something you can truly learn from a book. However, when I first took an interested in yoga, in the late 90's, I picked up this book as a reference to help learn the basics. It has a collection of wonderful pictures to illustrate each posture. Power yoga typical consist of a flow from pose to pose (Vinyasa Yoga) to help create heat and burn calories. It's more vigorous than the traditional Hatha style. The Total Strength and Flexibility workout has beginner to advance poses and pictur...more
this looks like a really commercial exercise book, and at the time it was published it probably needed to or no one would have bought it. however, beryl bender birch is a serious yoga practitioner who studied with iyangar and jois way back, and besides knowing her stuff she is a very big-hearted and evolved soul as i recently discovered to my delight at a workshop. her style of ashtanga yoga is not one-size-fits-all, but with patience and modifications people besides the young and athletic wil...more
This was my textbook for my first yoga class. This stuff is hard. If it doesn't hurt, you're doing it wrong.
Power Yoga: The Total Strength and Flexibility Workout by Beryl Bender Birch (1995)
Instructive manual on astanga yoga. Intellectually a little fluffy...
I paused for now, but it's a good read for who wants to actively practice Yoga
This is a good overview if you are just starting yoga. It give detailed photos and descriptions of the poses without going too far so you get lost. This is a textbook for a course that I have taken several times and is an all around good overview for pure astanga yoga.
I don't know if you can really say I'm "reading" this book... but I am absorbing it chapter by chapter as I slowly fumble my way through learning yoga, by book. This book is excellent, but maybe I should give in and take a class.
This is a great intro to power yoga to supplement/enhance anyone's yoga practice. It was a textbook for school and I kept it and it's a great refresher and has lots of pictures and descriptions.
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A bit wordy to use with an active practice, but some great advise from a long time practitioner of the Ashtanga sequence. I like to use this as a reference more so than a practice manual.
This was a required text for my hatha yoga class, now I'm rereading it more in depth. I love Birch's analogies, she is truly someone I would love to meet someday.
This book details a vigourous system of Hatha Yoga that I suggest one try after taking a Yoga class.
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