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Book Reviews of Insight Yoga
Book Review: Insight Yoga
Summary: 5 Stars
As a Yoga Instructor, I found this book refreshingly easy to read and understand, not to mention the accuracy of the information presented. The uses of Yoga as therepy and as an adjunct to other forms of Yoga is presented with pictures and helpful guidelines for even the beginner. I would highly recommend this book for any person interested in Yoga whether a beginner or beyond.Book Review: Insight Yoga Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Insight Yoga is a wonderful fusion of Yin/Yang Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Buddhist philosophy. Many detailed photos of specific poses to balance and focus on each meridian. Overlay of meridians on photo of body, including internal branches help you to understand how the pose affects that meridian. Interesting insights on each organ and it's related meridian in the body. Modifications given for each pose make it available to students of Yoga of all levels.Book Review: Insight Yoga by Sarah Powers
Summary: 5 Stars
An excellent book for someone who wants to go deeper into his/her yoga practices. Sarah has the unique ability to express complex ideas into simple, enriching language.Book Review: One of the best organized and most inovative books on Yoga I've read to date!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been following Paul Grilley's Yin Yoga work for some time now and recently picked up a copy of Ms. Powers - Insight Yoga. It's very easy follow her explanation of the Chi Meridian Channels in conjunction with her yoga stretching series.
I agree with Mr. Grilley's assessment of her being the Beatles like innovator of her presentation of Yin and Yang Yoga.
This is a must read for serious yoga practitioners!
All the Best,
Mike Addison
C.Ht, C.NLPt, C.EFTt
Book Review: Primer for yoga, breathing, meditation, Buddhism and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Summary: 5 Stars
An ambitious undertaking, and even more impressive that so much information is covered in 192 pages, albeit oversized.
This is not the first offering for Yin Yoga (a synthesis of Hatha Yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine which sequences postures based on the targeted meridians and requires postures to be held for up to five minutes). What makes her unique is her offering of both Yin- and Yang-style yoga. A smart move, because while quieter, yin styles of yoga have started to regain some popularity, most of the yoga still being practiced in classes is of the vigorous, yang style, and most of it's participants will probably still want to find a way to include that into their practice in a time-efficient way. In addition to offering instruction for a variety of postures in both styles, she also offers several sequence suggestions at the end of the book to start tailoring your personal practice.
I have been a yoga instructor for several years, so while I found the instructions for the postures technically accurate, there wasn't too much new information for me. What I really enjoyed reading about was the information on Traditional Chinese Medicine, particularly Meridian Theory (lines of energy linked to organs of the body). In addition to information about the physical and energetic attributes of each meridian pairing, Powers also gives diagrams for where the meridians flow from, through and to. These are worth close study, because some of it is not intuitive (for me, anyway). After that, Powers goes on to provide a practice specific to each pairing, where she also superimposes lines to make clear why a certain posture is appropriate for that pairing.
Yin Yoga has started to be included in practices not only to physically balance against more vigorous Yang Yoga, but also because it more easily invites quieter, meditative states, making it easier to balance the mind and the body. As such, Powers includes information about pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation and even basic Buddhism. Much of this was very easy to read, although there were one or two places where the language didn't flow as well.
None of her topics are covered exhaustively, and most readers who find this interesting will probably want to investigate some of the sources she lists (and others) further. This is, however, an excellent start appropriate for novices as well as experienced practitioners, and should keep everyone busy for some time.