Yoga Anatomy | Leslie Kaminoff | A great help for serious Yoga Students

Yoga Anatomy | Leslie Kaminoff | Excellent breakdown and linkage of postures

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Yoga Anatomy

	Yoga Anatomy Leslie Kaminoff Human Kinetics Publishers, 2007 - 221 pages average customer review:based on 72 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A great help for serious Yoga Students

Connecting with various parts of the body is difficult. This book with it's excellent illustrations facilitates the visualization and the possible related sensation of a pose. Sensing position and alignment are difficult and this book helps that process.

Excellent breakdown and linkage of postures

This book is really good. It has an excellent introduction of breath anatomy and explains exactly what muscles and actions are being used in a posture. I also like how it links postures together. For example when looking at forward fold (Uttanasana) it says, for more in deptch exploration look at the sitting version Paschimottanasana. So it also helps with sequencing and linking ideas together. Chef recommends!

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Incredibly detailed but too technical

I am very curious about which muscles do what in my yoga poses, and why some poses hurt more than others, and what I should be doing with my back muscles in certain poses. I had hoped that this book would provide some answers, but I discovered that the book was written about yoga from an anatomy perspective rather than the other way around. I don't understand 90% of this book, because I don't know which muscles are being referenced and what the motion is that he's talking about. Adducted? Trapezius? I'm totally lost.

If I bought some kind of anatomical dictionary and used it to translate this book, I've no doubt the book would be wonderful. The illustrations are amazing, and I can tell that the text and the breakdown of each pose are thorough and not at all dry. Nevertheless, I'm going to have to ask a friend who's an RN for some help reading it. Yogis, be warned: you'll need some knowledge of anatomical terminology to understand this book.

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A good reference for Yogis

The illustrations in this book are fantastic! The intricate detail provides a great visual to see what is actually happening in a well executed asana. The text is useful too, but it is written with very technical language and may take a bit of extra effort to absorb. I have found some answers to questions I have had in acheiving certain poses. I would recommend this book to serious Yogis.

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