"More than an instruction manual, this book complete with visual examples, offers readers a critical approach to their yoga practise. Furthermore, this guide accommodates the needs of people with a diverse range of movement, in terms of structure, strength and flexibility. Offering comprehensive advice in modifying yoga practice, David Moore takes account of this variability." -- Page [4] cover.

David Moore draws on thirty years of teaching to bring fresh and practical insights into how the Alexander Technique can contribute to a safer and more effective yoga practice. With a wealth of illustrations that support the clear, precise explanations, this book offers comprehensive advice in modifying a yoga practice to take into account the huge variability in individual ranges of movement. Moore includes techniques to accommodate limitations imposed by injuries, structure, body type, strength, and flexibility. Smart Yoga offers an explanation of the Alexander Technique’s approach to posture and movement, suggestions for altering faulty breathing patterns, and information about how Hatha Yoga, Patanjali, and Buddhist insight practices relate to the Alexander Technique.

Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Luc Vanier utilize their ten years of research on developmental movement and dance training to explore the relationship between a specific movement technique and the basic principles of support and coordination.

Today healing yoga helps you to do just this, by teaching you how to integrate an awareness of the panchatattva - the five forces of vitality - into your yoga practice.

The Alexander Technique is world famous for helping posture and back pain, but that's the tip of the iceberg. As Peter Nobes argues in this passionate book, it is actually a great deal more than that. It will show you how to do everything effortlessly - mind and body - and make you look good, stay youthful, and come across better. It has more in common with Zen, Existentialism and Stoicism than it does with the yoga and Pilates that many people associate it with - it's more about thinking than about bodies. It will teach you how to be more conscious and make new choices; how to be your authentic self, living in the here-and-now. It will help you develop a body so light you will barely know it's there, and a more conscious mind - it's how to be mindful in three dimensions.

This book provides practical information on anatomy for dancers using images, storytelling, and experiential exercises. Based on over 30,000 hours of training, Functional Awareness(R) improves dance technique with tools to enable the dancer to recruit effort efficiently and move with ease in class, on stage, and daily life.