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B.K.S. Iyengar Reg. $40.00
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Yoga - The Path to Holistic Health is not only the crowning work of a master, the book itself is a masterpiece. There is no book on yoga that is at all like Yoga - The Path to Holistic Health. B.K.S. Iyengar has brought the full force of his genius into the content of this encyclopedic work, and the Dorling-Kindersley book designers have likewise contributed their own genius. The result is the deepest, broadest, most complete, and most useful book on yoga ever published. Also the most beautiful.
Forty years ago, Iyengar wrote Light on Yoga, in which he demonstrated and described over 200 asanas (yoga postures). A lifetime of teaching experience later, he has gifted us with a different approach. In Yoga - A Path, he has carefully selected 23 classic poses, discusses them thoroughly (including their specific health benefits and when to avoid them) with step-by-step color photographs, and then accompanies the 360-degree photographs of the final pose with one practical pointer after another. These poses are offered in forms ranging from the most basic to advanced and become the foundation of a 20 sequential lessons (which, if pursued through to the advanced forms, offers at least 3 years of joyful progress).
Although this would be quite an accomplishment in itself, Iyengar doesn't even think of stopping there. He goes on to develop a massive section concerning the application of yoga as an antidote for stress - here we find 43 poses with enough information about their effects to enable us to select and sequence them according to our needs and abilities. I have never witnessed such a careful consideration and such a helpful approach to what has become the most widespread ailment of modern life. This section alone can literally save lives and is worth the price of the book in and of itself.
However, it only gets better, and we're nowhere near done. Iyengar follows his 75+ pages on Yoga for Stress with over 150 pages of photographed sequences of Yoga Therapies for a full range of ailments. All the main systems of the human body are covered with specific types of illnesses addressed within each system. Iyengar has learned that, just as we can use herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture and more to stimulate underactive organs and processes or to quiet overactive ones, so we can use yoga when we understand the effects of the poses therapeutically. This is an amazing work!
At other various places in the book, Iyengar clearly discusses the philosophy of yoga, beginning pranayama (breath exercises), the use of props for yoga practice (he did, indeed, earn his nickname of "the furniture yogi" - and I, for one, am glad he did), food and nutrition and much more.
Recommended fully and without hesitation.