Based on Bikram's signature program of 26 postures and two breathing exercises, this book will help you combat a variety of afflictions--from stress and insomnia to arthritis and back pain--and maintain exceptional health for years to come. The postures work your muscles, increase flexibility, and flush toxins out of your system. It isn't easy: it's a rigorous, body-bending program, and Bikram gives it to you straight in his outspoken, charismatic,...

"In this book, one of the world's foremost teachers of yoga offers his thoughts on many practical and philosophical subjects, ranging from the place of yoga in daily life to insights from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. He includes chapters on family life, love and sexuality, health and the healing arts, meditation, death, and advice to teachers. Based on lectures and discussions with his students, the text is enlivened by many of the author's personal experiences...

Presents yoga workout with weight loss techniques.

While many Westerners still think of yoga as an invigorating series of postures and breathing exercises, these physical practices are only part of a vast and ancient spiritual science. For more than three millennia, yoga sages systematically explored the essential questions of our human existence: What are the root causes of suffering, and how can we achieve freedom and happiness? What would it be like to function at the maximum potential of our minds,...

Presents an introduction to yoga, covering the basic principles of exercise, breathing, relaxation, meditation, and proper diet, in a text that includes recipes and step-by-step photographs of how to perform the yoga postures.

Introduces yoga to children and teenagers, describing its history and purposes, providing step-by-step instructions for breathing and many poses, and explaining how to make yoga part of one's normal routine.

Soothing yoga for stress relief and relaxation, 'Candlelight Yoga' will drain tension away and melt anxiety into tranquility with yoga postures specifically chosen to release tension, increase strength, improve sleep and enhance flexibility.