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This fully-illustrated New York Times bestseller categorizes an astonishing 2,100 yoga poses through photographs and descriptions for optimal benefit including adaptations for all levels of expertise and ages.
A thoughtful, inspiring, meticulously-crafted guide to the practice of yoga, 2,100 Asanas will explore hundreds of familiar poses along with modified versions designed to bring more healthful options to yogis of all experience and ability.
Organized into eight sections for the major types of poses — standing, seated, core, quadruped, inversions, prone, supine and backbends — and each section gently progresses from easy to more challenging. Each pose is accompanied by the name of the pose in English and Sanskrit, the Drishti point (eye gaze), the chakras affected and primary benefits.
ASIN : 1631910108
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal; First Edition (November 10, 2015)
Language : English
Hardcover : 736 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781631910104
ISBN-13 : 978-1631910104
Item Weight : 5.4 pounds
Dimensions : 8.88 x 1.75 x 10 inches
4.5
Reviewer: Eugenia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the best complete, modern, asana book manuals
Review: I am a yoga teacher and we are told about thousands of yoga poses that exist. However in 500 hours spent in yoga teacher training program. I may say I learned probably a hundreds of yoga poses and I am no where near knowing a thousands of them, let alone 2,100. For that reason I was excited to find this book and buy it.This is why this book is so valuable. It is a great reference book. I ordered my copy in hardcover, so it will not bend or assume unseemly shapes. Book is made of high quality paper and has fantastic photography pictures of each and every pose demonstrated by very experienced practitioners/teachers. Author of the book is Canadian yogi who dedicated his life teaching yoga and he thought yoga to many athletes over his career. Most of the poses are demonstrated by female practitioners but there are a few male practitioners and they all look amazing. Each pose has a name in Sanscrit and English and description of it. I want to thank Daniel Lacerda for creating one of the most precious asana books that compiles all 2,100 poses that I could find in 10 years of practicing yoga.The introduction to the book is vry thoughtful and also gives a brief description of yoga philosophy. People unfamiliar with yoga will be surprised to learn that yoga is so much more than a physical practice.
Reviewer: Makeup By Taylor Lyn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What An Incredible Value
Review: The effort and knowledge put into this bookâ¦..it should easily be $100. But itâs only $22. None of these poses are lame or unnecessary, they are all authentic yoga poses. It is extremely inspiring and motivating and Iâm so excited to add new poses to my flows and I feel like I will never run out now!
Reviewer: stonebraker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastically thorough
Review: I was pleasantly surprised with how large and beautiful this book is. Worthy of display. Opening content is historical. Content pertains to the mental and physical aspects of yoga. Im just diving in, but am very impressed so far
Reviewer: Sanguine Shambles
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pretzeled my life
Review: Listen, you will NEVER be able to boss-battle this book. It will ALWAYS be a huge resource for you and your practice and is unlikely to catch dust if you’re actually curious about expanding your practice. This book has me pretzel-ing (YES ITS A VERB NOW) myself into the weirdest configurations, & I’ve been surprised by the areas of flexibility I’ve discovered… as well as the areas of resistance – HOW INSIGHTFUL. It gives solid info on each pose but brief enough to get the gist fast. Just impulse-buy this. I highly doubt you’ll remember this purchase as one of life’s big regrets.
Reviewer: David Foust
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mostly Advanced
Review: This is a beautiful, thorough book of yoga poses. But 90% of them are extremely advanced (require major flexibility) which isn’t useful to me. Only a few poses have detailed info, the rest are just photos and names.
Reviewer: Valerie Provines
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Tons of brand new fun poses!
Review: I’m a yoga teacher and this is my favorite yoga book of all. I love learning and teaching new poses and my students seem to enjoy learning new ones too. Most yoga classes seem to stick to the same poses but I enjoy variety. I also love that names of poses are in English and Sanskrit; I hate having to try and find out what a pose written in only Sanskrit means. The photos are all beautiful and not difficult to figure out the body placement, unlike most yoga books. I also love that it’s not redundant using lots of pages to explain yogic spiritual beliefs. I wanted a book with lots of new poses, easy to see the poses, and this is it. If it had explained how to get into the poses the book would be soooo thick and heavy and it’s already thick and heavy enough. My favorite yoga book with 100 regular yoga poses that explains them the best is Yoga the top 100 best yoga poses. It’d be awesome if the 2100 asanas author put together some books explaining how to get into the poses, I’d buy them. But for now I’m in love with this book and it’s going to make yoga practices even more fun.
Reviewer: AskAlthea
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: THE one
Review: Beautiful book and gift for anyone who wants to take a yoga practice as far as possible. The full color photos are excellent and show the poses correctly executed. The descriptions are succinct.Each pose has a brief description that identifies the chakras that the pose targets and the emphasis on specific body points. Pose photos are also grouped together from the initial easy pose through its progressive variations of difficulty. Grouping the photos this way allows for fluid movements from pose initiation into its most advanced position based on physical abilities.CAVEAT: the book’s not for beginners. The best beginner books are those by Richard Hittleman and available inexpensively on Amazon. Beginners are also well served by attending regular yoga classes designed for beginners and not in mixed ability classes. One of the points of yoga is to work based on physical abilities. Yoga isn’t about pain, it’s about the daily work of mental and physical progression.Many thanks to Mr. Yoga, Daniel Lacerda, for this comprehensive book. We like it so much that we have 2 copies.
Reviewer: SBS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This should be in every yoga instructor’s library!
Review: An amazingly comprehensive collection of basic asanas and tons of variations on each asana, along with many which I hadn’t ever seen or heard of previously. It’s inspirational with its excellent photography, and I’ve already gifted a copy to a teacher friend, after having received my own copy and seen personally how useful it is!
Reviewer: Karime
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Muy buen libro, tiene muchÃsimas posturas, es un libro para personas ya con una práctica avanzada, por que no explica cómo entrar a las posturas
Reviewer: Fabiana da Silva Pereira
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Esse livro foi muito bem produzido.O conteúdo é bem claro e as imagens excelentes.Direto ao ponto e muito completo.
Reviewer: Alexander Orlov
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Bought it, as a present ð¦, great pictures, description, step by step approach. Highly recommend for the beginners and avid Masters.
Reviewer: Evan Dempsey
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I’ve ordered so many yoga books but after a couple weeks when I mastered all the poses in the book I was getting board and keep ordering more and more books that I would get board off but then I ordered this book well worth the price its a huge book full of beautiful poses!!!! This is the ultimate yoga book I highley highley recommend thus book !!! And I’ve had this book for over a month and haven’t got board of it its impossible to get board of this book as their 2100 poses in it!!!@ yhis book is a must have I wish I found it sooner !!!!
Reviewer: Friedrich Schmidt
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Super groÃe Ãbersicht mit jeweiliger Kurzbeschreibung an Asanas. Allerdings sind die Abbildungen sehr klein. Gibt es auch als eBook, aber auch hier sind die Abbildungen sehr klein und werden beim VergröÃern stark verpixelt. Wie gesagt, groÃe Ãbersicht und ab und an mal wieder Inspiration für Abwechslung.
