Yoga for the Young at Heart: The Book - Softcover

Susan Winter Ward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577312228 ISBN 13: 9781577312222

Publisher: Yoga for the Young at Heart, 2002

Synopsis

Whatever your age, body type, fitness level or time constraints, you can enjoy the benefits of yoga! Susan Winter Ward presents this series of easy yoga poses for all levels of ability, but designed especially for boomers, seniors and beginners of all ages. These poses can be practiced anytime or anywhere: at home for a morning or evening routine; as a quick pick-me-up at work; while traveling; and for rest and restoration after a busy day. The basic series can be expanded with suggested alternative poses and variations, offering challenges for the more experienced yoga student. Other poses offer relief from stress and encourage deep relaxation. Additional sections offer yoga especially for women that can help ease the symptoms of menopause, and sacred yoga for office, travel and the physically challenged. Yoga for the Young at Heart also offers a full line of Susan's DVDs which are designed to complement this acclaimed book.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Winter Ward is an internationally recognized certified yoga instructor, author, and award-winning video producer. She is the creator of Yoga for the Young at Heart, a leading publisher of yoga exercise videos for boomers, seniors and beginners of all ages. Susan's joy is to bring yoga to those who would not otherwise think they could do it. If you are breathing, you can do yoga, says Susan. Susan is committed to making yoga adaptable to all levels of ability so that every body can enjoy the benefits of a yoga practice. She is an inspiration to the young and the not-as-young. Yoga for the Young at Heart videos are used in elementary schools and corporate wellness programs, as well as by boomers and seniors who respond to her insistence that yoga shouldn't hurt...but should instead feel like a good morning stretch! Her goal is to change the traditional view of aging from the expectation of decrepitude to one of healthy, dynamic, and creative in your 50s, 60s and beyond. Ten years of scoliosis and back pain led Susan to begin practicing yoga in 1990, at White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, California. She was so impressed with the relief she experienced that she wanted to share it with her mother and other beginners. She became a teacher so she could share the blessings of yoga as a trained and experienced professional. As a real estate developer/yoga teacher, she is often asked what the connection is for this strange blend of passions. Susan says, "I love building beautiful places for people to live on the outside; yoga helps people to build beautiful places to live on the inside. I think it is a perfect balance." Teaching both seniors and younger beginners, Susan has developed a gentle, encouraging and inspirational teaching style. The integral foundations for Susan's teaching are the grace and strength of the vinyasa-style White Lotus Flow Series and the powerful influence of John Friend's heart-centered Anusara Yoga, Anusara Yoga's principles of alignment and the concept of honoring the body's innate intelligence. Listening deeply within, respecting the body's limits and moving through a yoga practice with sensitivity and self-caring are the basis of Susan s approach. All of Susan's inspiring Yoga for the Young at Heart programs are developed especially for beginners, boomer and seniors. Her programs offer gentle, accessible and effective yoga for those who are stepping onto the path toward achieving state of body/mind fitness, vitality, and a sense of peace and well being. In addition to her own yoga classes, Susan teaches at retreat workshops and speaks at conferences including NICABM (National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine), Southwest Yoga Conference, Whole Life Expo and numerous other U.S. events. Internationally, she has taught or spoken at Inner Voyage cruises and events, The Message Company Conferences on Science and Consciousness, and at Innate Intelligence (Network Chiropractic) Transformational Gate Intensives in Sicily, Lago di Como, Italy. Susan has also served on the teaching staff and Board of Directors of the American Yoga College and on the teaching faculty for Deepak Chopra. Susan has appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal and other national publications. She has authored numerous articles, and has been featured in and written articles for a variety of national magazines and newspapers. Susan is a sought-after guest on television (including most recently by Florence Henderson) and radio talk shows.

Review:

Yoga for the Young at Heart is for everyone interested in maintaining good health. It introduces you to the easy, beauty and benefits of yoga and will help improve your physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. --Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

This book contains all of the little things you need to do to keep yourself healthy and vital at any stage of your life. Take the time to treat yourself to the gems in this book. --Rodney Yee, author of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body

Susan Winter Ward presents one of the most gentle and compassionate entries for the beginning student into the grace-filled world of hatha yoga. --John Friend, Founder of Anusara Yoga

This book contains all of the little things you need to do to keep yourself healthy and vital at any stage of your life. Take the time to treat yourself to the gems in this book. --Rodney Yee, author of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body

Susan Winter Ward presents one of the most gentle and compassionate entries for the beginning student into the grace-filled world of hatha yoga. --John Friend, Founder of Anusara Yoga

About this edition

• Publisher: Yoga for the Young at Heart
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1577312228
• ISBN 13: 9781577312222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: New World Library
• Illustrator: Fully Illustrated With Over 60 Photos.