Yoga

Pick Your Yoga Practice: Exploring and Understanding Different Styles of Yoga

Pick Your Yoga Practice: Exploring and Understanding Different Styles of Yoga

Meagan McCrary

Language: English

Pages: 240

ISBN: 1608681807

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


On the surface it may appear that yoga is yoga is yoga, but take a closer look and you’ll discover myriad different yoga systems and lineages. There are dozens of yoga styles to choose from, and while yoga is for everyone, not every style is the perfect fit for every person. But how do you choose between mysterious-sounding names such as Ashtanga, Kundalini, Bikram, and Kripalu? As Meagan McCrary discovered when she began exploring different classes, finding the right style is essential for establishing a steady yoga practice. Pick Your Yoga Practice is the first book to describe the most prominent yoga styles in depth, including teaching methodology, elements of practice, philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, class structure, physical exertion, and personal attention. Those new to yoga will discover they have options and can confidently attend a class of their choosing, while experienced practitioners will expand their understanding of the vast world of modern yoga, and perhaps find themselves venturing into new territory.

Styles included:

Ashtanga * Iyengar * Kundalini * Integral * Kripalu
Bikram * Jivamukti * Sivananda * Ananda
Viniyoga * Svaroopa * Power * Forrest * ISHTA
Anusara * Moksha * AcroYoga

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world for more than fifty years. His book, testimony that the tradition has remained unchanged over the decades, continues to serve as a reference for Ashtanga students and teachers worldwide. Parampara, knowledge that is transmitted from guru to disciple, is an essential component of the Ashtanga yoga method. According to the tradition, only instructions that come from within parampara are true, effective, and complete. The style stresses over and over again the importance of practicing under

last asanas in the series, which include their own pranayama exercises, there are two methods of breathing for the postures. The 80–20 breathing technique is used during standing poses, backbends, and other postures that require oxygen in the lungs to be able to perform with the proper strength. Start by taking a full inhalation, expanding and lifting your rib cage. As you enter the pose, exhale (through your nose) 20 percent of the air that is now in your lungs. Holding the posture, continue to

Together, the class will then chant: om om om shantih shantih shantih hari om, which will be repeated at the end of practice as well. The well-rounded class sequence is set, beginning with three rounds of traditional ashtanga Surya Namaskar A’s (Sun Salutations), followed by one round of Jivamukti’s version of Surya Namaskar, leading directly into standing poses, backbends, forward bends, twists, and inversions, ending with a five-minute silent meditation and Savasana. Designed to be

of grace”: “Founding Master Yoga,” Master Yoga Foundation, July 15, 2013, www.svaroopayoga.org/swamiji.html. Page 176 “He gave it to me in one instant . . .”: “Origin of Svaroopa Yoga,” Master Yoga Foundation, July 15, 2013, www.svaroopayoga.org/swamiji.html. Page 180 “to mend the hoop of the people . . .”: “About Ana T. Forrest,” Forrest Yoga, May 9, 2013, www.forrestyoga.com/about. Page 180 “Emotions have to be in motion . . .”: Jamie Stringfellow, “Embodying Change: How Movement Can

Cleansing Breath), 113 National India Yoga Competition, 141 National Institutes of Health, 173 Nemer, Jason, 190, 191 neti neti (“not this, not this”), 46 netra vyayamam (yogic eye exercises), 110 New Leaf Yoga Foundation, 189 New York (NY), 32 New York Times, 32 Nirmalananda, Swami, 155, 175–76 Nisreyasananda, Swami, 182 niyama (self-restraint), 43, 50, 51, 66 nose, breathing through, 11 om (mantra), 12–13, 165 Om yoga, 167 online yoga classes, 2 Palmer, Mary, 36 parasympathetic

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