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I would like to have about a year to do nothing other than practice yoga and learn pilates.
At my first-ever yoga session - Hatha yoga - at the end of the session when we were to relax, I feel asleep so soundly that my friend had to roll mee over to take me. Even as a child I wasn't relaxed, ever. There was lots of trauma in my life, and it hasn't changed much. The time period surrounding that first yoga session was one of the extreme lows. Yet the 45 minutes of yoga put me into what really amounted to a state of complete bliss.
I've never been that relaxed since. I needed that yoga session, and I'd like to establish the habit of yoga every day or pilates every day. Maybe I should stop everything and do that?
Well, now I have CDs, so I don't need classes or a book. But if you have ever wondered if yoga or pilates might interest you or be healthful for you, this is your chance, because this book is $0.40 plus shipping at Amazon, but FREE at PBS.
Reviewe from Amazon:
Really a combination of three separate books, each originally published separately. The first section describes one of the styles of yoga. The second section covers Pilates, with a focus on mat-work rather than anything requiring expensive equipment. The third section covers Jonathan Monks' fusion of yoga and Pilates.
While each of the three sections is good (well-written, understandable, and with good photographs and diagrams), in my opinion the most interesting and valuable part of the book is Monks' section. Rather than adhering to and propagating a particular style or dogma, Monks emphasizes the value of learning your own body and how it moves. He uses a mix of classic postures and movements drawn from both yoga and Pilates to achieve his goal, but spends plenty of time describing why and how a particular posture is worth performing, and what sensations you should be trying to feel. The whole book is worth having, but if you only want Monks' stuff, his Yoga-Pilates book sounds like it covers the same ground without all of the extraneous material from other authors.
At my first-ever yoga session - Hatha yoga - at the end of the session when we were to relax, I feel asleep so soundly that my friend had to roll mee over to take me. Even as a child I wasn't relaxed, ever. There was lots of trauma in my life, and it hasn't changed much. The time period surrounding that first yoga session was one of the extreme lows. Yet the 45 minutes of yoga put me into what really amounted to a state of complete bliss.
I've never been that relaxed since. I needed that yoga session, and I'd like to establish the habit of yoga every day or pilates every day. Maybe I should stop everything and do that?
Well, now I have CDs, so I don't need classes or a book. But if you have ever wondered if yoga or pilates might interest you or be healthful for you, this is your chance, because this book is $0.40 plus shipping at Amazon, but FREE at PBS.
Reviewe from Amazon:
Really a combination of three separate books, each originally published separately. The first section describes one of the styles of yoga. The second section covers Pilates, with a focus on mat-work rather than anything requiring expensive equipment. The third section covers Jonathan Monks' fusion of yoga and Pilates.
While each of the three sections is good (well-written, understandable, and with good photographs and diagrams), in my opinion the most interesting and valuable part of the book is Monks' section. Rather than adhering to and propagating a particular style or dogma, Monks emphasizes the value of learning your own body and how it moves. He uses a mix of classic postures and movements drawn from both yoga and Pilates to achieve his goal, but spends plenty of time describing why and how a particular posture is worth performing, and what sensations you should be trying to feel. The whole book is worth having, but if you only want Monks' stuff, his Yoga-Pilates book sounds like it covers the same ground without all of the extraneous material from other authors.
