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| Yoga Anatomy | 
 enlarge | Author: Leslie Kaminoff
Creators: Amy Matthews, Sharon Ellis
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 818
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 221
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0736062785
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7046
EAN: 9780736062787
ASIN: 0736062785
Publication Date: June 20, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff, Amy Matthews, and Sharon Ellis July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the book I had wanted to write myself!
Having read Strength Training Anatomy by Frederic Delavier when I studied for a Gym Instructor's course, (ironically so that I could go on an Exercise Referral course which I felt would help me when I teach Hatha Yoga to people who have problems;) I was certain there was a need for a similar book that would show clearly the major muscles involved in different asanas.
It is clear. The diagrams are excellent and it will help any hatha yoga teacher who is seriously interested in helping students who have particular physical problems.
Well done and many thanks. I will certainly be recommending it to my students.
Helen Lloyd Jones Cardiff Wales
 An excellent body of work for regular yoga practitioners or medical professionals July 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book strikes me as a labor of love - immense and incredible detail pours forth on every fully illustrated page.
Serious yoga practitioners will glean useful insights on joint actions, breathing, and the precise inner workings of their bodies, in poses from savasana to scorpion. Excellent color drawings show where your intestines curl up to in poses like shoulderstand (they take up a lot more room in the torso than we realize), what parts of the body hold up weight in inverted poses, and even what our illustrated musculature looks like from underneath, in, for example, turtle pose (the publishers photographed yogis underneath suspended glass slabs). There is a lot of neat stuff here.
The "Joint Action," "Working" and "Lengthening" paragraphs detail what parts of the body are under stress or responding to gravity. The arms, legs and spine are given extra attention.
"Obstacles and Notes" includes where one might feel restrictions, try variations or deal with bodily congestion.
"Breathing" offers tips on how the breath might be restricted and how to align each pose to more comfortably/fully breathe.
OVERALL RECOMMENDATION -
Beginners won't really know what to make of this book. Besides the "oh, cool!" factor, it's difficult to figure out what beginners could do with this information. It's not a pose book per se. It's not causal reading. It's a serious texbook for serious yogis.
While the top of each page provides both Sanskrit and English pose names, the text refers to the Sanskrit, forcing yoga beginners to fumble around between pages to catch what the references are.
Proper names of muscles, bones and tendons are used: if reading about adductors, flexors, rotators, erector spinae, multifidi and rhomboids that "work eccentrically" are confusing, this book might not be altogether helpful.
That said, this book is a must-have for the libraries of yoga instructors and yoga therapists. Doctors and medical professionals endorsing yoga for health/fitness will likely enjoy this reference tool.
Intermediate to advanced practitioners with a working knowledge of anatomy and Sanskrit names should find exploring Yoga Anatomy an - ahem - illuminating experience. :)
Yoga anatomy July 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think it is very interesting to be able to know what your body is really doing while you move and stretch.
 Very technical for the casual yoga practicer July 8, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book on the rave reviews but agree that if you just want to learn more about yoga poses and benefits, this book might be too technical. While I like the breakdown of the muscles used for certain asanas... the text refers to many parts that are not defined in the illustration.
It is an extremely "neat" book just to see the illustrations. I would recommend it if you have a good grasp of anatomy and are a teacher.
If this book could be improved for the layman, I would suggest labeling all the parts referred to in the text portion -- into the illustration.
Yoga anatomy July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent resource for building a thoughtful yoga class or practice. Many students have issues with specific muscles and this book helps you respond with good and in-depth understanding of which poses are a good choice for them.
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