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The New Yoga for People Over 50: A Comprehensive Guide for Midlife and Older Beginners

by: Suza Francina

: The New Yoga for People Over 50: A Comprehensive Guide for Midlife and Older Beginners
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7046
EAN: 9781558744530
ISBN: 1558744533
Label: HCI
Manufacturer: HCI
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 286
Publication Date: April 01, 1997
Publisher: HCI
Sales Rank: 35937
Studio: HCI



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Product Description:
Iyengar yoga expert Suza Francina describes and illustrates how older beginners can adapt the practice of yoga to their special needs. Through photos of older teachers and students, this comprehensive guide demonstrates how to progress from gentle floor and chair stretching exercises to vital weight-bearing, standing and inverted postures.

Amazon.com Review:
'No segment of our population can benefit more from yoga than people over 50,' says author Suza Francina, Iyengar yoga instructor and director of the Ojai Yoga Center, where she specializes in classes for people over 50. The New Yoga for People over 50 shows how to adapt traditional postures to suit any age or fitness level with step-by-step instructions aimed at the older beginner. Photographs, quotes, and personal stories of yoga teachers and students--many in their 70s and older--add inspiration.

One key to modifying postures for older, stiffer bodies is the use of props that provide support to let the yoga student get into strenuous postures and hold them longer without pain or fatigue. The book illustrates how to adapt many postures with the aid of chairs, walls, wall ropes, bolsters, back-bending benches, and straps. Yoga decreases stiffness and inertia, and enhances health, energy, flexibility, posture, breathing, independence, and balance (physical and emotional). Francina explains how yoga may prevent the shortening and rounding of the spine and ward off osteoporosis. This book is an excellent companion to a yoga class or an inspiration to begin one. --Joan Price



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Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - respect your body!
The cover picture alone should be enough to avoid picking up, let alone buying this book. Yoga specially ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Still Trying!
I bought this book to add some new challenges to my novice yoga routine. I would like to be able to say that ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Older people people doing incredible poses, Discouraging!
I thought it would be a beginner's guide but I guess the astounding photographs of older people doing incredible ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A book for all ages
This book would be helpful for anyone (of any age), it is very readable and understandable. Buy it and you (too) ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - the best for elder yoga addicts
I loved this book for it's optimistic and practical attitude towards aging.


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