Learning Yoga: The Beginner's Step by Step Guide

"Learning Yoga" is a completely unique beginner's guide. Through his stunningly simple approach, Garry Appel takes the student on a journey that leads to deep understanding of yoga poses based on three easily mastered factors: the basic shape of the student's body in the pose (straight, hinged at the hips or curved), how the body is oriented in space (upright, inverted, face-up, face-down or on the side) and how the arms, legs, torso and neck are positioned. Mastery of these simple factors leads to a clear understanding of all yoga poses in no time. Each section of the book is accompanied by thorough and well thought out Practices that allow the reader to internalize the concepts instead of just reading about them. Only after the three components of yoga poses are revealed and practiced does the book give the poses names and show the reader how to perform them. This is an indispensable guide if you want to learn yoga.

Garry Appel is a yoga teacher who lives and teaches in Denver, Colorado.