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Improve flexibility, balance, and strength in three steps Only
the "Full-Body Flexibility" system blends the best stretching
methods from yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and sports training into
stretching sequences for your every need.
In this updated edition, you'll find 175 stretches and 23
routines that will help you take these steps:
- "Strengthen" muscles to support your body and maximize your
entire range of motion.
- "Enhance" flexibility by challenging your muscles with
multiple techniques.
- "Balance" muscles in opposing muscle groups on both sides of
your body.
Use the book's step-by-step instruction and detailed full-color
photo sequences to enhance your body's natural movement, reduce
muscular tension, strengthen joints, improve posture, and take your
athletic performance to new heights.
Whether you're seeking to improve overall fitness or simply
searching for a more effective way to stretch, "Full-Body
Flexibility" is your guide for staying active, healthy, pain free,
and injury free.
Michael Boyle, one of the world's leading sport performance
coaches, presents the concepts, methods, exercises and programmes
that maximise athletes' movements in competition. Self-reinforcing
progressions in exercises for the lower body, core, upper body, and
ultimately total body give athletes the balance, proprioception,
stability, strength and power they require for excelling in their
sports. Sample programmes assist in the customisation process and
ensure each aspect of preparation for physical performance. New
Functional Training for Sports goes beyond traditional exercise
descriptions and explanations, incorporating full-colour,
high-definition composites of foundational movements as well as
online access to video demonstrations, commentary and analysis of
key exercises.
"Mind Fitness Workout" is a unique exercise DVD that gives an extra
advantage in losing weight and inches. It achieves this with
special music played during a one-on-one workout. In the music,
there are positive weight-loss suggestions repeated continually
with a technique only your subconscious mind (Sub-Mind) can hear.
This technique enables the positive suggestions to directly
influence the Sub-Mind creating a process called Subliminal
Persuasion. By continually using Subliminal Persuasion you will
reinforce the positive behaviours you need to lose weight and
inches automatically!The DVD includes: three 12-minute Fitness
Workouts, each with various exercises and different levels of
intensity (the first level for beginners), and one 30-minute
Fitness Workout that combines all three; subliminal suggestions in
the music in all four Fitness Workouts, as well as an option to
play all the workouts without the suggestions in the music;
directions for performing a Mind Fitness Workout; how and why
Subliminal Persuasion works; plus a bonus of nine minutes of music
with positive weight-loss suggestions for your Sub-Mind. Just relax
and listen to the soothing music when you are not exercising and
still receive the benefits of Subliminal Persuasion. No equipment
is needed for a Mind Fitness Workout, and it can be used in
conjunction with any exercise program or diet. The approximate
running time is 120 minutes.
Now beginners, experts, and teachers alike can make rejuvenating
meditations part of daily life with this beautifully illustrated
deck of fifty yoga poses and meditations. Each easy-to-use card
gives detailed instructions, benefits, and an affirmation. If
you're short on time, you can pick just a single card, or for a
more guided experience, follow one of the sequences provided.
Create an exercise routine that focuses on your specific needs. In
the park or at the office, these portable cards are perfect for
stress relief, promoting strength and energy, and
relaxation--anytime, anywhere.
This tender poetic text is garnished with intricate line drawings
depicting the natural world, abstracted anatomy, and yoga postures.
Heart Rooted in Sky is about letting life crack you open and
finding new ways to be. At its essence, this is a story of yoga,
for it is a story of transformation. A woman stands at the
trailhead of a dark woodland passage. It is a path that many avoid.
On her journey she begins to take notice of the world around her
and asks, “What is really here?†As the woman inquires into her
environment, body, breath, and thoughts, she sheds her habitual
behaviours, resentment, and stories of identity. By doing so, she
transforms and opens to life as it unfolds. She learns to
move from fear towards love.
Whether you long to live with less stress, reduce anxiety, find the
confidence to follow your dreams or simply find more happiness and
meaning in your everyday life, Thrive Through Yoga will take you on
a journey towards health, strength and freedom. Thrive Through Yoga
unites ancient wisdom with modern psychology to create a
revolutionary route to freedom from the anxieties and worries of
21st-century living. This life-changing 21-day journey maps out a
clear path to healing and personal growth through daily yoga
routines, heart-centred explorations and meditations. Find the
inspiration, guidance and courage to let go of whatever is holding
you back, transform struggle into strength, and grow as bold and
brave and beautiful as you were born to be.
52 weeks of yoga practice, wisdom, and ritual to help you slow
down, restore balance, and nourish mind, body, and spirit.
Sequenced by the astrological calendar, The Yoga Almanac is a
practical guide to help you reintegrate with recurring cosmic
rhythms and invite the sacred into your life through learning,
movement, breath and ritual. Featuring 52 seasonally-themed
chapters, the Almanac is a comprehensive jumping off point to
deepen your relationship to yoga - and to yourself. Each chapter
includes a seasonal theme with an overview of yogic theory, as well
as an illustrated asana to begin the physical exploration of your
practice. You'll also find weekly rituals to integrate these
teachings into your daily life and a short dharma talk as reference
and nod to tradition. Finally, this unique, holistic handbook will
help you develop a transformational practice that flows with the
cycles of the astrological year - beginning with spring and
culminating in winter. Whether you're looking for weekly
inspiration, a crash course in yogic theory, or a blueprint for
developing your own yoga routine, The Yoga Almanac provides a
foundation for reconnecting with the deepest parts of yourself and
discovering your authentic place in the world.
From acclaimed yoga teacher Guru Jagat comes a wildly cool,
practical, and beautifully illustrated guide to applying the simple
and super-effective technology of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation to
everyday life, upgrading your "operating system" inside and out.
With Invincible Living, Guru Jagat shares a radical way of
understanding yoga-not just as something to do in practice, but as
a broader principle for living. Candid, encouraging, and
irreverent, Guru Jagat shows how Kundalini Yoga-which forgoes
complex poses for energy-boosting, breath-driven exercises, quick
meditations, and simple poses most of which you can do at your
desk-can reset your life and well-being, regardless of your age or
background. Designed explicitly for everyday people, not
ashram-going or gym-bodied yogis, fast, effective Kundalini
techniques can be done anywhere, from the car to the conference
room. There's no need to have a bendy back or toned arms. You don't
even need a mat: just a quiet space to clear your head, and as
little as a minute out of your day. From beauty and self-care to
work and relationships, Invincible Living tackles both the
mind-from mood elevation and stress reduction to renewed mental
clarity-and the body-from anti-aging, and increased metabolism to
amped up energy. Packed with tips, exercises, and step-by-step
instructions and fully photographed and illustrated in Guru Jagat's
fresh, handmade-meets-hipster style, Invincible Living is fresh
take on ancient wisdom: a must-have guide for anyone who wants
simple, effective, tools for a supercharged life as taught by a
uniquely compelling teacher who upends all preconceptions about
yoga. Invincible Living includes 100 color photographs and
illustrations.
INCLUDES AN UPDATED CHAPTER ON THE 2020 SEASON You don't get biceps
like Briggs by giving up when the going gets tough... CrossFit
superstar Sam Briggs, aka 'The Engine', is a true hero in the
sport, with a level of endurance unparalleled in the game. This is
the story of how she got to the top, and battled with everything
she had to stay there. Sam's memoir takes in the whole story, from
being kicked out of ballet lessons as a child but being accepted on
the boys' sports teams, to working as a firefighter in West
Yorkshire for ten years, tackling dangerous and adrenaline-fueled
situations on a daily basis, and to taking up CrossFit at the
comparatively ancient age of 27. Sam tells of what it took to
become champion a mere three years later, and after a year out with
a broken patella. Despite the numerous setbacks and debilitating
injuries that have plagued her in the years that followed, when
most other athletes would have thrown in the towel, Sam has fought,
and continues to fight, to be the very best that she can be. Start
Your Engines is the story of how, with a combination of grit,
training and dogged motivation, it's never too late to achieve your
dreams.
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