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Title: Hatha Yoga by Godfrey Devereux, Clare Park ISBN: 0-00-710310-7 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a definitive guide
Comment: Godfrey Devereux encapsulates in this book the entire process of Hatha Yoga. Utilising the postures which are commonly identified with this Yoga form, Godfrey leads you to to a full realisation of this Yoga method. Be prepared to move beyond the physical as you begin your journey into the unknown.
Rating: 5
Summary: a work of art
Comment: This book is worth the price for the photos alone. Each chapter begins with a series of beautifully captured yoga poses or partner yoga poses worth cutting out and framing!
I enjoy having this book in my collection. As a yoga teacher, I find it gives me new ways of approaching a class session. The individual lessons in the book are excellent ideas about how to think about your yoga practice. For example, the chapter on establishing your foundation is important for all hatha yoga practices.
But mostly, I wanted to let everyone know about the gorgeous photography in the book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good, step by step introduction
Comment: This book offers a decent set of 14 routines that build upon one another to introduce the important concepts and Asanas of modern yoga. Each coarse has a different focus, from relaxation, through rooting the feet, to strengthening the back with back bends. The asanas are mostly beginner's modifications with lots of pictures and text instruction based on what movements to do to come in and out of the postures with the breathing. In this way, it is a good introduction to yoga for beginners.
Problems with this text include:
1. It is not associated particularly with any one school. This can be good or bad. It is hard to find classes that teach yoga like that in the book, but it can be nice to find something that is new and not too dogmatic. Also, this work draws mostly from Iyengar and some Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga so it would not be totally foreign and could be integrated with classes somewhat.
2. There is not a lot of theoretical instruction, like in the author's excellent "Dynamic Yoga." The reader is encouraged to read this book, and I recommend it too, however, Hath Yoga: Breath by Breath seems like a series of progressive beginners routines for people who were unsatisfied with routines in the earlier book. As a work on it's own, it seems almost incomplete. However, this is perhaps only because the previous book was so rich, and this one cannot compare.
3. There are, perhaps, better beginner's books out there. Yoga: Mastering the Basics, for instance is and excellent beginners book which is not associated with any one style particularly.
So, I would recommend this book highly to people who enjoyed Dynamic Yoga and are looking for a more graded approach to learning the asanas, and to a lesser degree, to any beginner looking for a very gradual, graded introduction to asana.
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Title: Dynamic Yoga: The Ultimate Workout That Chills Your Mind As It Charges Your Body by Godfrey Devereux, Sarah Robbie ISBN: 0722536577 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Elements of Yoga by Godfrey Devereux ISBN: 0007134444 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: 15 Minute Yoga by Godfrey Devereux ISBN: 0722539665 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual: An Illustrated Guide to Personal Practice by David Swenson ISBN: 1891252089 Publisher: Ashtanga Yoga Productions Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Asanas: 608 Yoga Poses by Dharma Mittra ISBN: 1577314026 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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