Open Body: Creating Your Own Yoga

LISTEN TO YOUR BODY

I have written this book to help you overcome your fears and misconceptions about yoga, and to ignite your creative responses to your body.

Many people feel intimidated by yoga books and magazines featuring extremely limber practitioners demonstrating various yoga postures. They may cease their practice because they feel inferior, or because theyve hurt themselves trying to do more than their bodies are ready to do.

You need know nothing about yoga to understand and enjoy this book. My yoga is not the yoga of my friend. My yoga is not the yoga of the lithe person in the how-to book. My yoga is my personal response to the needs of my body.

For anyone suffering from pain and tension, either physical or emotional, and for those of you intent on improving your flexibility and strength, this book should prove helpful and thought-provoking. I hope it will enhance your relationship to your most miraculous creation--you.

Welcome.

Todd Walton is a novelist, short story author and creative writing teacher. OPEN BODY is his first nonfiction title. He lives in Berkeley, California.