Yoga with Weights For Dummies
Sherri Baptiste
Language: English
Pages: 360
ISBN: 0471749370
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
An easy-to-follow guide to a hot new form of yoga
Yoga with Weights is the latest breakthrough in mind-body exercise, integrating the mindfulness of yoga with the physical culture of body-building. Building on the strengths of both disciplines, this friendly guide shows readers how to safely combine yoga postures while simultaneously working out with lightweight hand-held free weights. It features customizable exercises that target specific areas of the body, each illustrated with multiple photos, and provides guidelines for combining healthy eating with workouts.
Sherri Baptiste (Marin County, CA) is the founder of Baptiste Power of Yoga, a nationally recognized method of yoga offered throughout the United States. She teaches yoga classes throughout the United States and hosts retreats around the world.
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Alternate Nostril Breath In the Alternate Nostril Breath, you breathe through one nostril at a time, switching off from breath to breath (sorry, you can’t do this one if you’re congested or have a stuffy nose). You may be surprised by how you feel as you take Alternate Nostril Breaths. The breath offers many physical and subtle benefits. Each nostril is associated with one cerebral brain hemisphere. The right nostril is associated with the right brain hemisphere (where your spatial perceptions
mind-body self-regulation techniques. She studied in her college years with Walt Baptiste and has extensive training in Anusara yoga, a discipline that specializes in living with grace and mastering the alignment principals. Megan has been teaching yoga therapy classes for ten years. We called upon our collective experience with yoga, our understanding of how to teach yoga, and our experience with physical culture practices to create the exercises you find in this book. Some of the exercises are
correctly with the muscles of your belly. This exercise is meant to open up your hips and groin, not stretch your knee. 3. Grasp the weight in your right hand, keeping your palm face upward (see Figure 9-3b). This is the starting position. 4. Exhaling to a count of four, bend your right elbow into a bicep curl (see Figure 9-3c). Cross your right hand in front of you as you bend your elbow. Focus on your breathing and feel your thigh, hips, and groin stretching. 5. Inhaling to a count of
Chapter 11 Releasing Your Athlete Within: The Endurance Workout In This Chapter Developing a sustained ability to focus and concentrate Building your body strength Fighting through fatigue to cleanse mind and body When most people think of endurance, they think about being able to go beyond physical limitations or overcoming fatigue. This workout provides exercises and mindfulness practices to help you develop not only your physical strength, but also your mental will to keep going when the
your balance, do this exercise with your back against a wall, or sit on a low stool to start this exercise. 2. Slowly inhaling to a count of four, pick up the hand weights, rise to your feet — keeping your knees slightly bent — and raise the weights above your head (see Figure 17-3b). Widen your stance by a couple of inches to get into this position. 3. As you continue to inhale, keep rising until your legs are straight (see Figure 17-3c). 4. Slowly exhaling to a count of four, gently and