Walking Yoga: Incorporate Yoga Principles into Dynamic Walking Routines for Physical Health, Mental Peace, and Spiritual Enrichment (Paperback)
By Ila Sarley
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Improve your health, vitality, relationships, and self-awareness with this stimulating new exercise program
For centuries, Westerners and Easterners alike have embraced the discipline of yoga as a way to physical health and spiritual fulfillment. More recently, fitness experts everywhere have recognized walking as one of the most beneficial (and least injurious) aerobic exercises. Now Ila and Garrett Sarley teach you how to combine both activities for a routine that will rejuvenate your spirit and calm your mind, while improving your cardiovascular system.
You'll learn the basics of yoga -- the principles, postures, and breathing techniques -- and how to apply them to dynamic walking routines -- transforming a simple, natural activity into a centering, strengthening, and integrating experience. You'll also be taught:
- The five types of walking yoga
- Hatha yoga -- to stretch and strengthen the body
- Mantras (chants) to center and calm the spirit
- Chakra visualization to strengthen your body's seven centers of power
- An approach to exercise that will ensure lifelong regular practice
Filled with tips, techniques, and illustrative examples taken from the authors' own lives, "Walking Yoga" will show you how to live in the moment -- and how to get the most out of each moment you live.
Yoga and walking are two of the most popular fitness activities, and Walking Yoga combines them. Much of the book focuses on the principles of yoga, descriptions of poses to practice on the mat (not on the trail), and anecdotes about people whose lives have been enriched by walking yoga. About 44 pages (out of 197) describe walking routines that incorporate yoga. The routines start with a yoga warm-up (postures and breathing), and then move on to walking with awareness, rhythm, and integrated breathing. The five routines are as follows: full-on walking (aerobic), walking alone (thinking and sorting out), walking with loved ones (intimacy and connection), contemplative walking (slow, relaxed, inward-focused), and walking with gratitude (sensing and appreciating nature). Each is described in detail.
"The synthesis of walking and yoga happens in the moment when you are fully present: when you walk in time with the rhythm of the breath and your sensory awareness is so acute that you actually tingle with the electricity of life," write authors Ila and Garrett Sarley of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. The book includes a variety of clearly described and illustrated poses that you'll need to practice, with special instructions for beginners. --Joan Price Read more
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