Yoga With Weights is a System of Personal Development for Mind, Body, & Spirit
•Book Release Party
DATE: January 2006 (details to come)
LOCATION: BAY CLUB MARIN - CORTE MADERA
(20 min North of SF)•
DATE: January 2006 (details to come)
LOCATION: BAY CLUB MARIN - CORTE MADERA
(20 min North of SF)•
"15 million Americans include some form of Yoga in their fitness regimen - twice as many as did 5 years ago" - Time Magazine
THE BOOK:
Yoga with Weights for Dummies
Author Sherri Baptiste with Megan Scott, PhD
Nationwide Release
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Yoga with Weights for Dummies has over 100 Yoga with Weights exercises, and offers something for everyone. It’s been written with clarity, and understanding for the mainstream, in a practical way with over 200 photos to guide the reader through their workouts. It’s accessible for beginner to instructor level, without watering it down. We give you warm ups to start with, but even more important is the breath work in every workout; it’s at the core of every exercise. There are customizable exercises for total head to toe workouts, or to target specific areas of the body, they can even prepare for specific sports like golf and tennis, or to build endurance or just relax, it’s all there and illustrated with multiple photos. This book also provides guidelines for combining healthy eating with your workouts.Pre-order now- on www.Wiley.com
Unlike other exercise routines Yoga with Weights is low impact, improves strength and flexibility, builds concentration, and reduces mental and physical stress and tension. In addition, Yoga with Weights is known to eradicate fatigue and generate energy , all of which lead to increased productivity and morale. Yoga with Weights exercises are simple and can be modified for different skill levels and abilities - and perfect for the home and office environment too!While most stress management techniques and exercise programs just talk about how to deal with stress, our Yoga with Weights™ programs get results. Yoga with Weights provides proven techniques that have immediate and lasting effects.
Tension, both physical and mental, is often stored somewhere in the body and true stress reduction is a matter of discovering how to release that tension on both levels.Yoga with Weights directly address tension in both the body and the mind. Our exercises help to remove stress from both sources since tension in one area has a direct effect on the other.
Yoga with Weights exercises offers simple, safe, and practical techniques that quickly reduce tension and stress while building strength at any time of your day and place. The Yoga with Weights system provides you with the following:
- Ways to identify stress signals and indicators through the awareness of breath
- Postural improvement for general health, tension management, and improved appearance
- Strength building for mind body and even bone density for greater resistance to daily stressors and fatigue
- Practical exercises and techniques for the home, and workplace
- Safe exercises (drawing from two time tested and powerful systems; yoga and physical culture) that bring more energy and wellbeing to every part of your body
- A workout system for mind, body and spirit
Thanks to Yoga with Weights for Dummies Models found on this page: Sherri Baptiste, Megan Scott, Nick Freeman, Marion Jung, Linda Prosche, and Bill Keller
WOMEN’S FITNESS MAGAZINE-UK
YOGA WITH WEIGHTS FOR DUMMIES
Review Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007
YOGA WITH WEIGHTS FOR DUMMIES
Yoga With Weights For Dummies is written to benefit all fitness levels. It helps you to get the maximum benefits of yoga poses combined with weight training without going too much into the spiritual side of yoga. The book covers breathing, how to warm up and cool down as well as a balanced workout to train your whole body. Each pose is fully illustrated with a bullet point description of how to perform it. However, the exercises sometimes run over two pages, which cause you to constantly move forwards and backwards while learning the new poses. Would be better if side by side. The author also provides additional tips, reminders and alternatives to ensure suitability for all levels.
The book ends with different yoga with weights programmes that focus on special needs and training for specific sports. These programmes make it easy for the beginner to know which poses to do and how to combine them for maximum results. Overall, this is a good book if you want to learn how yoga and strength training can improve your fitness and wellbeing.
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Dummies Brand of books the #1 selling reference books in the country.
Written with clarity and author expertise these popular for Dummies Brand of books include authors such as:
YOGA WITH WEIGHTS FOR DUMMIES
Review Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007
YOGA WITH WEIGHTS FOR DUMMIES
Yoga With Weights For Dummies is written to benefit all fitness levels. It helps you to get the maximum benefits of yoga poses combined with weight training without going too much into the spiritual side of yoga. The book covers breathing, how to warm up and cool down as well as a balanced workout to train your whole body. Each pose is fully illustrated with a bullet point description of how to perform it. However, the exercises sometimes run over two pages, which cause you to constantly move forwards and backwards while learning the new poses. Would be better if side by side. The author also provides additional tips, reminders and alternatives to ensure suitability for all levels.
The book ends with different yoga with weights programmes that focus on special needs and training for specific sports. These programmes make it easy for the beginner to know which poses to do and how to combine them for maximum results. Overall, this is a good book if you want to learn how yoga and strength training can improve your fitness and wellbeing.
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Dummies Brand of books the #1 selling reference books in the country.
Written with clarity and author expertise these popular for Dummies Brand of books include authors such as:
- Meditation by Stephan Bodian and Dean Ornish.
- Yoga for Dummies: by Georg Feuerstein & Larry Payne with a forward by Lillia’s Folan
- Power Yoga by Doug Swenson
- Yoga with Weights by Sherri Baptiste.
Yoga with Weights For Dummies, July 18, 2007
By Dr. Brady (Calgary, Canada) - The hardest part of any exercise program is getting started. Often the programs are too complex and expect the participant to be "in shape". Then there is the cost of expensive equipment and the time commitment. Finding the right exercise program that suits your lifestyle, your needs, and your schedule seems like a recipe for disaster.
Yoga with Weights For Dummies to the rescue. Yoga with Weights is a unique program that combines the stretching and flexibility aspects of yoga with the strength training benefits of weights. The end result is long lean muscles that are strong, without the expensive equipment or inflexible exercise regime.
Yoga with Weights For Dummies actually outlines a number of different programs to gently fit different needs for energy, balance, restoration, strengthening, endurance, and abs workouts. Special adaptations and workouts are also giving for seniors and pregnant women. In all cases, the amount of weight (from no weight at all to 5 pounds) is left up to the participant based upon his or her needs, fitness levels, and goals. Moreover, unlike other fitness regimes, yoga with weights can be done in a twenty minute block of time or broken up throughout your day.
Chapter 4 Breathing:
Breath is life, and a key to your yoga with weights success. The quality and the way we breathe influences everything in our lives. The idea is to keep your awarness on your breath continously as you move in and out of each yoga with weights exercise. Utilizing and maximizing, your yoga with weights potential, will rely deeply on how you breathe. Breath development techniques and exercises contained within this chapter will help guide you into states of increased energy, mental clarity, emotional calm, physical ease, exercise safety, and expanded breathing freedom. As with any exercise, yoga with weights can be done without awareness, put on the breath, but once you experience the difference (the power of the breath) and what you will be missing without it, you will never look back...Sherri Baptiste: author of Yoga with Weights
----------------------------------------By Dr. Brady (Calgary, Canada) - The hardest part of any exercise program is getting started. Often the programs are too complex and expect the participant to be "in shape". Then there is the cost of expensive equipment and the time commitment. Finding the right exercise program that suits your lifestyle, your needs, and your schedule seems like a recipe for disaster.
Yoga with Weights For Dummies to the rescue. Yoga with Weights is a unique program that combines the stretching and flexibility aspects of yoga with the strength training benefits of weights. The end result is long lean muscles that are strong, without the expensive equipment or inflexible exercise regime.
Yoga with Weights For Dummies actually outlines a number of different programs to gently fit different needs for energy, balance, restoration, strengthening, endurance, and abs workouts. Special adaptations and workouts are also giving for seniors and pregnant women. In all cases, the amount of weight (from no weight at all to 5 pounds) is left up to the participant based upon his or her needs, fitness levels, and goals. Moreover, unlike other fitness regimes, yoga with weights can be done in a twenty minute block of time or broken up throughout your day.
Chapter 4 Breathing:
- Learn how to Breath for Yoga with Weights.
- Discover seven different ways to breath
Breath is life, and a key to your yoga with weights success. The quality and the way we breathe influences everything in our lives. The idea is to keep your awarness on your breath continously as you move in and out of each yoga with weights exercise. Utilizing and maximizing, your yoga with weights potential, will rely deeply on how you breathe. Breath development techniques and exercises contained within this chapter will help guide you into states of increased energy, mental clarity, emotional calm, physical ease, exercise safety, and expanded breathing freedom. As with any exercise, yoga with weights can be done without awareness, put on the breath, but once you experience the difference (the power of the breath) and what you will be missing without it, you will never look back...Sherri Baptiste: author of Yoga with Weights
Special thanks and credits to: Megan Scott Ph.D. for her contributions to this book and to Peter Weverka for his editing and wordsmith expertise. Thanks also to Bonnie Kamin Photos -
with respect and appreciation...Sherri Baptiste
with respect and appreciation...Sherri Baptiste
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