Develop your mental and physical potential, take control of the stress and tension of everyday living, and learn to nourish your mind and body with Yoga Mind & Body. Vetted by the expert staff of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, this guide stresses the five points of exercise, breathing, meditation, diet, and relaxation for improved health and happiness. In addition to basic yoga poses, Yoga Mind & Body provides meditation tools, stress relief exercises, and recipes for healthful nutrition.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Yoga Mind and Body
The library book was overdue. It was time to purchase this book. Very helpful!
5 Stars Here’s the basics on Yoga
I have been practicing Yoga for 7 years and continue to return to this book for information. It was my first Yoga book and I have held it up to many subsequent books - it’s still my favorite. For an overview of the basic postures, as well as the other 7 limbs of Yoga, for inspiration (will I ever be able to do that?) and for useful information about what each pose is for and how to do it right, this is the book. I recommend it to everyone and have purchased several copies for friends and students. A great basic foundation for your Yoga practice,
5 Stars Yoga Mind and Body by Sivananda Yoga Center
This is simply one of the best Yoga books ever published.
This book has a very good cross section of basic yoga postures, with additional advanced posture features. I especially like the clear color photographs and finely written step-by-step instructions for moving through the postures.
I have many books on yoga and yogic philosophy, but consider this book part of the core of my basic yoga library. Recommended for beginners to advanced. After absorbing the information in this book, the practitioner of yoga can easily move on to more specialized areas with other books and instruction.
Highly recommended.
5 Stars A great addition to your yoga library
If you are like me, you devour information on yoga. I’ve read both Power Yoga books by Beryl Bender Birch, the Yoga for beginner’s and Power Yoga for beginner’s series and all the Idiots/KISS/Dummies tomes. Also, those by Baron Baptiste & Rodney Yee, and Hatha Yoga Illustrated. Even with all of those in my collection, this book was very informative. The illustrations are great and I really enjoyed the more advanced versions of common asanas that it presents.
As with most yoga books, it covers nutrition & meditation very thoroughly.
A great addition to your library.
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1 Star Truly awful!
I can’t understand all of the excellent reviews for this book. The poses shown are impossible for most people. I am relatively flexible (can do the splits easily, etc.), but I think I’d break in half if I tried to do these exercises. The average American soccer mom would run the other way if this was the first yoga book she picked up.
Along with the poses, the “spiritual” and dietary explanations and recommendations are extreme: the various “layers” of the body including the astral body, insistence on a vegetarian diet, fasting, setting up an altar, abdominal churning, stomach cleansing (which involves swallowing a length of gauze and then pulling it back out through the mouth - to be done twice a week!), and more.
The book also ridiculously claims to cure countless ailments through poses. “This position balances the function of the thyroid”… “relieves indigestion and diabetes”… “relieves insomnia”… “increases the capacity of the lungs”… “helps relieve problems of the uterus and ovaries.”
I recommend Yoga Journal’s Yoga Basics as a much more practical book.