Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health (IMM Lifestyle Books) Improve Alignment, Build Core Strength, Relieve Back Pain, and Understand What Happens Inside Your Body During Key Yoga Poses - Softcover

Nicky Jenkins; Leigh Brandon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504801504 ISBN 13: 9781504801508

Publisher: IMM Lifestyle Books, 2025

Synopsis

Improve posture. Strengthen your spine. Discover how yoga transforms your health from the inside out.

Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health is a powerful visual guide that reveals exactly what happens inside your body during key yoga poses. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike, this book uses detailed anatomical illustrations to show how each pose targets specific muscles and joints to support better posture, reduce tension, and promote long-term wellness.

Whether you're looking to relieve back pain, strengthen your core, increase flexibility, or simply understand your body better, this anatomy-based yoga book gives you the tools to align, balance, and thrive.

What makes this guide essential for yoga practitioners:

• See inside each pose: Clear anatomical illustrations reveal how your muscles, skeleton, and joints engage with every movement
• Targeted health benefits: Focus on yoga for spine health, posture correction, injury prevention, and full-body wellness
• Five organized sections: Discover foundational postures and techniques grouped by the musculoskeletal systems they benefit
• Designed for all levels: Ideal for yoga beginners, advanced yogis, yoga teachers, and physical therapists
• Mind-body connection: Deepen your understanding of how posture impacts overall health and wellbeing

Built around the premise that spinal strength and healthy alignment are at the core of the body's vitality, Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health helps you use yoga not just for fitness, but as a daily tool for feeling stronger, lighter, and more balanced from head to toe.

If you're searching for yoga anatomy, posture correction, spine health, yoga for back pain, flexibility training, illustrated yoga, or functional yoga for everyday wellness, you'll get the visual insight and practical guidance you need to support your journey inside Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health!

About this title

About the Author

Leigh is a Functional Medicine Practitioner, CHEK Practitioner, CHEK Faculty Instructor, Active Release Techniques(R) Therapist, author and podcast host. His extensive training and years of clinical experience has given Leigh the ability to provide a truly holistic approach to helping his clients over the years, which they have found very effective often times after other approaches hadn't helped.

Leigh was (and still is) obsessed by sports as a child and has always been active. Aged 14, he began weight training in his school's gym, and took up weight training seriously at 23. At the age of 27, he completed his first course with the American College of Sports Medicine and his career took off from there.

Since then, his passion for learning continues and he turns that knowledge into wisdom through the experience of what is now over 27 years working with clients. Leigh has always sought the 'best of the best' to learn from and is as passionate now about his work and gaining knowledge as much as he was in 1996, when his career in health, wellness and performance started.

Leigh has formally studied with some of the world's greatest minds such as Paul Chek, Bill Wolcott, Dr John Veltheim, Dr Michael Leahy, and Dr Dietrich Klinghardt.

As well as being passionate about helping clients, Leigh has also been a member of the faculty of the world-renowned CHEK Institute since 2010 teaching and presenting in Europe, USA and Australia. He has also published five health and wellness books and has a number of online professional education programmes.

From the Back Cover

An enlightening look at what your body is doing when you practise yoga, providing sequences of poses specifically designed to improve your posture, vitality and health.

Yoga is well known for its corrective benefits, but how can you best use this ancient tradition to improve your posture, health and vitality? In this in-depth guide, yoga expert Nicky Jenkins and exercise specialist Leigh Brandon introduce a range of techniques chosen with these goals in mind. With full-colour illustrations of the muscles in action, it allows yoga practitioners to understand how their bodies are working when they assume yogic poses.

Broken down into detailed sections on different postural imbalances — kyphotic, lordotic, flat-back and sway postures — Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health shows the physical and emotional causes and consequences of each posture type, followed by a sequence of poses designed to correct and improve them. Each series of sequences will assist in bringing back muscular balance and spine strength, which are at the core of the body's health. The book also contains breathing and meditation practices to help bring tranquillity and understanding, enhancing the emotional connection to the body and strengthening the mind.

Suitable for all levels of ability, from beginner to advanced.

All exercises are accompanied by detailed anatomical illustrations that show exactly which muscles are being used and how.

Features tips for good form and includes full instructions and lists of the muscles being used.

Edition details

• Publisher: IMM Lifestyle Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1504801504
• ISBN 13: 9781504801508
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144