Product Description: Written in consultation with top instructors, midwives, and doctors, this step-by-step handbook shows expectant mothers how to harness the power of yoga to enhance both their own well-being and that of their child. Each yoga posture depicted in this illustrated guide is safe and comfortable for each stage of pregnancy—from the first trimester through delivery. The positions and relaxation techniques suggested can help improve circulation, increase energy, and ease the symptoms of hormonal imbalances, and also included are tips to help speed post-natal recovery. Perfect for yoga novices as well as experienced students, this book can help harmonize body, heart, and mind during this transformative time for mom and baby.

Yoga for Pregnancy (Pyramid Paperbacks) (Paperback)

Product Description: Body, Breath and Being explores the Alexander Technique through the experiences of those who have studied it and benefited from it. These include:

*A keen amateur sportsman who was “reborn” after being resigned to a lifetime of pain.

*A photographer who overcame a debilitating back problem that was interfering with his professional work.

*A pregnant woman who used the technique to relieve indegestion and handle her changing posture.

*A musician who managed an asthmatic problem that was affecting her playing.

Body, Breath and Being: A New Guide to the Alexander Technique (Paperback)

Product Description: Mitch Yass's practice serves 8,000 physical therapy patients and 4,000 personal training clients. He was lead lecturer for the NYC exhibit Bodies-The Exhibition, and the press release for that event read Mr. Yass is the Miracle Man among Long Island physical therapists. He has helped thousands of patients avoid surgery, eliminate chronic pain, and lose weight. This is a revolutionary new approach to establishing the true cause of pain and how to stop it.

Overpower Pain: The Strength-Training Program that Stops Pain without Drugs or Surgery (Paperback)

Product Description: Yoga props, videos, designer clothing, weight-loss programs - author Tom Pilarzyk believes that something essential has been lost as the 5,000-year-old spiritual practice has morphed into a $3 billion pop culture phenomenon. This book argues persuasively for a return to yoga's roots: maintaining daily intention, welcoming difficulties that test resolve, keeping the heart open, making positive shifts when feeling victimized or exhausted, and remembering to breathe deeply and witness the spontaneous play of activity all around. Yoga Beyond Fitness offers a bridge to yoga's serious meaning for the millions who practice it for fitness but want more. It provides an accessible overview of yoga's diverse teachings and teachers and is full of colorful stories of ordinary people whose lives have been bettered by embracing yoga's underlying promise. The book even includes fun tests that help peg readers' practicing preferences and a study guide and a listing of national yoga centers to help expand the reader's experience.

Yoga Beyond Fitness: Getting More than Exercise from an Ancient Spiritual Practice (Paperback)

Product Description: Strength Training for Women has been developed as a training guide as more women begin to understand the health benefits of this activity. Strength Training for Women is written in five parts. First, you will be educated about general strength training terminology. Second, major muscle groups of the body will be pinpointed, providing strength training exercises used in a gym using hand weights (dumbbells), barbells, various cable, pinloaded and weighted machines. Third, you will be provided with a series of strength training routines for use in the gym. Fourth is a body weight workout routine that can be performed at home or whilst traveling. Fifth is the take anywhere hand weight routine for the whole body. Through regular participation in strength training, many women find a positive outcome with body image, confidence and self-esteem since the body changes shape as fat is reduced and lean muscle is maintained.

Strength Training for Women: Build Stornger Bones, Leaner Muscles and a Firmer Body With Australia's Body Coach (The Body Coach) (Paperback)

Keeping Fit: Body Systems (Do It Yourself) (Hardcover)

Just Say Now...to Fitness (Paperback)

Product Description: The Real Deal Workout Drill is 3 books in 1. Fitness experts Dothard and Oye provide the reader with a One-Minute Drill, Nutrition Guide and Workbook to track progress. A must-have to guide beginners, and shake up experts fitness plans.

The One-Minute Workout: Real Deal Fitness and Nutrition [ILLUSTRATED] (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: Initially designed as stretching breaks between long periods of sitting meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Mindful Movements became so popular they’re now an integral part of his retreats. Based on yoga and tai chi movements, these simple, effective exercises reduce mental, physical, and emotional stress. The book Mindful Movements introduces the program to the general public. The ten routines are designed to be easily accessible and can be performed by people of all ages and all body types, whether they’re familiar with mindful practices or not. They can be done before or after sitting meditation, at home, at work, or any time the reader has a few minutes to refresh both mind and body. For those new to meditation, the exercises are an easy way to get acquainted with mindfulness as a complete, multifaceted practice. For current practitioners, the movements add a welcome physical element to a sitting meditation practice.

Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: Simple Ideas for Healthy Living contains health tips and health instruction sheets. It's divided into the four areas: spirit, mind, emotions, and body. It also addresses various health topics for individual instruction and discussion in group sessions.

Simple Ideas For Healthy Living (First Place 4 Health) (First Place 4 Health) (Paperback)