Yoga to Go: A Take-It-With-You Guide for Travellers
by Paula Carino
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Author: Paula CarinoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-28
ISBN: 080698032X
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Sterling
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Book Review: A comprehensive yoga practice guide for travel or staying home, too
Summary: 4 Stars
Author Paula Carino designed this book as a yoga guide for travelers, but it actually makes an excellent manual for those practicing at home as well. Rather than just focus on asana, the physical practice of yoga, Carino begins by reviewing all eight limbs of hatha yoga, discussing how the both the yamas (ethical practices) and the niyamas (moral observations) might apply to travel. However, the majority of the book does center around the third limb, the postures.
All of the postures are beautifully demonstrated with full color photographs featuring yoga instructor Zelina Blagden as a model. Carino provides detailed, easy-to-understand instructions for each pose, beginning with simple seated and warm-up postures and moving through a full range of asanas including backward bends, forward bends, inversions, standing poses, spinal twists, and relaxation poses. The information she provides includes the Sanskrit name for each posture, breathing instructions for the pose, modifications to the pose, and benefits of the pose. Several different types of breathing exercises (pranayama) are also introduced.
Once Carino has presented the postures, she moves on to Chapter 3, "Creating Your Practice." Here Carino combines the poses to form various routines which would be appropriate for practicing on the road (but which would work for home practice). For example, she offers a 20-minute "Morning Energizer" routine as well as a 30-minute "Good Night's Sleep" routine. She also suggests practices to address common problems experienced while traveling, including Headache, Nausea, Aching Back, and Colds. Finally, Carino suggests postures specific to the type of travel--eg, stretches for plane, car, or train travel. The last two chapters of the book are brief; they cover Eating Well on the Road and Travel and Meditation.
Not only is this book an excellent source of information, but it is also extremely attractive: as mentioned above, it is filled with full-color photos as well as cute, colorful illustrations designating each chapter. In addition, it is printed on a thicker, clearly more high quality glossy paper (ironically, however, this makes the book rather heavy for its size and actually less suited to travel). Although I might not actually bring this book with me when traveling (it is a bit heavy and bulky for that purpose), it definitely has some great information for practicing yoga on the go, and I would recommend it for those practicing at home as well.
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