A Woman's Book of Yoga

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
• Published by: Avery November 7, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1583331379
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1583331378
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Product Review
"Simple practices to help you stay healthy, calm, and strong, and to carry you forward in a natural progression toward wisdom, real beauty, and the strength of realized grace that belongs to all women," promise Machelle M. Seibel, M.D., and Hari Kaur Khalsa, authors of A Woman's Book of Yoga.

The authors, a gynecologist and a yoga instructor, offer prescriptions for the transitions in women's lives. They teach the health and stress-reduction benefits of breathing, postural, and meditation exercises, including particular activities for menstruation, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, sexuality, and digestion. Spiritual as well as physical health benefits are stressed: "The goal of yoga is to reveal the connection between the human being and the Divine Self."

This is not a simple self-help book, but a serious, mindful guide for a beginning study of kundalini yoga: philosophy, spirituality, postures (illustrated), meditations, and health advantages are addressed. "The yoga itself is not the goal, but it is the key to opening the door to health, self-love, and self-realization," write the authors. --Joan Price

From Booklist
A Woman's Book of Yoga is a collaboration between kundalini yoga teacher Shakta Kaur Khalsa and medical doctor Machelle M. Seibel, who explain the basics of kundalini yoga and how to use it during various phases of a woman's life. Their instructions cover menstruation, PMS, sexuality, pregnancy, labor, postpartum, and menopause. In addition to kundalini techniques, ayurvedic nutritional advice and recipes are also provided. Jane Tuma
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Reader Reviews
The combination of yogic wisdom and western medicine provides a little something for everyone in this well written and easy to understand guide to starting a practice. Particularly valuable are the chapters on pregnancy and sexuality...a topic often not covered in such a thorough manner in other books. The addition to the beautiful photographs and RECIPES (!!) make this one of my favorite resources in my own practice as well as for my students! Comment | | (Report this)