Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee

Internationally renowned yoga instructor Rodney Yee is the instructor of more than 26 best-selling yoga videos. In Moving toward Balance, he outlines an eight-week program of yoga postures, meditation, and breath awareness designed to lead us toward the emotional and physical balance we all crave in life. Each week introduces a new category of poses--forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions shown with variations to accommodate different levels of strength and flexibility. Along with the instruction, the text explains the significance of each pose and how it contributes on physiological and psychological levels to a complete sense of balance.

At the core of Moving toward Balance is its emphasis on a home practice, enabling you to focus on what works best for your own body. Suitable for yoga students of any level, each lesson is illustrated with full-color photography and is laid out in sequential order, so there is no need to flip back and forth to follow along. There are also chapters on customizing your basic practice to address specific concerns such as lower back pain or PMS, as well as ideas to help keep your newfound practice thriving. Filled with years of Rodney's teaching expertise and more than 300 photographs, Moving toward Balance is the link that you've been searching for between the classroom and the home.

Rodney Yee is one of America's premier yoga teachers and has been featured in Time, People, and USA Today, and on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a co-director of the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, where he teaches public classes and trains yoga teachers. In addition, he travels across the country and around the world to destinations such as England, Bali, Australia, and Mexico to conduct workshops and retreats. Rodney is a coauthor of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body.

Nina Zolotow is a writer and a longtime yoga practitioner who studies with Rodney Yee and other yoga teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a coauthor of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body.