Happy Yoga

Author: Steve Ross
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060533397
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
After studying yoga in India and traveling all over the world with traditional Vedantic masters, Steve Ross returned to his hometown of Los Angeles with a broadened point of view of what yoga could be. He was surprised to find that yoga classes at home were missing the humor, joy, and celebration that fueled his Eastern studies. Instead of expanding and enhancing the joy of being, Western yoga classes focused obsessively on correcting body positions and developing a picture-perfect physique. Determined to keep his yoga practice true to cultivating bliss and inner radiance, Ross started his own yoga studio and has created a yoga movement in Los Angeles that is, to put it simply, revolutionary. Ross lives and teaches according to his belief that the secret to yoga is not obsessing over whether your feet are parallel or whether you can bend as far as the person on your left can, but about transcending the serious and allowing joy into your life, your body, your mind, and hopefully your yoga practice itself. It's about lightening up. In Happy Yoga, Ross reveals that everyone is inherently happy, but that our true self is shadowed and concealed by the layers of worry that, through habit, become our daily thoughts. In each chapter, he examines one of our seven greatest human fears -- depression, ill health, loss of love, career failure, war, death, and emotional stasis -- and uses yoga wisdom to explain how to strip away these worries to reach your core of calm radiant joy. By sharing his system of yoga postures, diet, meditation, music, supplements, and philosophy, Ross has effected profound physical and mental changes in both his life and the lives of his students. Ross's power is that he goes back to the source -- five thousand years of ancient yogic wisdom -- and decodes the abstract Eastern ideas for a Western audience. Happy Yoga is not just a set of movements and facts to consume, it is a way of shifting your awareness to bring the spirit of yoga into each movement, each meal, each relationship, each thought, and each breath. With love and joyful abandon, Ross offers us a new way to practice and live yoga. The result is profound calm, a dramatic release of anxiety and pain, and the realization that there really is nothing to worry about.

Yoga Happy

Author: Hannah Barrett
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1787137686
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
Find connection, calm and happiness. Yoga Happy is an essential companion to help you through life, whether you’re a complete yoga beginner or wanting to deepen your home practice. In this beautiful, full-colour book you will find everything you need to build your inner strength and resilience, and help you find calm, happiness and the resilience to navigate the modern world. Written by yoga and meditation teacher Hannah Barrett, who has helped hundreds of thousands of people both online and through her workshops and classes, Yoga Happy encourages you to incorporate key disciplines, thoughts and actions into your everyday life. No matter how little time or space you have, Hannah shows how you can find your energy, reduce stress at home or at work, get a good night’s sleep and learn to cope better with whatever life throws at you. This inspiring handbook will also guide you through short, illustrated yoga sequences adapted for all abilities, plus give you breathing techniques, meditations and other proven mindful practices that will help to nourish and support your mind and body.

Happy Yogis: A Fun Kids Yoga Book with Positive Affirmations (Bilingual Edition)

Author: Sandy Zanella
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9781736245200
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : es
Pages : 34

Book Description
Want to improve your child's strength and boost their confidence and self-love? In this book, you will find an amazing way to have fun spending healthy and happy quality time with your child. We live in a busy world and family yoga is a great way to create a special bond that will last forever. The beautiful illustrations will show you how to perform each pose that follows a fun and simple flow of yoga poses while repeating positive affirmations that will help your child build lasting self-esteem. You will also find a fun breathing exercise to help kids cope with difficult situations and also a loving-kindness meditation.¿Quieres mejorar la fuerza de tu hijo y aumentar su confianza y amor propio? En este libro, encontrarás una manera increíble de divertirte pasando tiempo saludable y feliz con tu hijo. Vivimos en un mundo ajetreado y yoga en familia es una excelente manera de crear un vínculo especial que durará para siempre. Las hermosas ilustraciones te mostrarán cómo realizar cada pose que sigue un flujo simple y divertido de posturas de yoga mientras repites afirmaciones positivas que ayudarán a tu hijo a desarrollar y mejorar su autoestima para toda la vida. También encontrarás un divertido ejercicio de respiración que ayudará a tus niños a afrontar situaciones difíciles y una meditación de bondad amorosa.

Laughter Yoga

Author: Madan Kataria, M.D.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143134949
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Could you use a good laugh? This definitive guide by the founder of the worldwide laughter yoga movement will show you how to giggle your way to good health! Bring laughter into your life at any time of day--no special equipment needed, no new wardrobe, no expensive classes, not even a sense of humor! Laughter yoga is all about voluntary laughter--how you can learn to laugh even in the absence of humorous stimuli, and reap the extraordinary, scientifically proven benefits, which include stress reduction, pain relief, weight loss, heightened immunity, and, especially, enhanced mood: If you act happy, you'll become happy--your body can't tell the difference! Children laugh more than 300 times a day, adults fewer than fifteen. But it's easy to start laughing again. The exercises in this book combine voluntary laughter with yogic breathing to give you a full body-mind workout. And it turns out that laughter is the fastest way to reduce stress and the best kind of cardio: Ten minutes of hearty laughter is equal to thirty minutes on the rowing machine. With Laughter Yoga, join the growing worldwide movement and discover how laughter really is the best medicine. A PENGUIN LIFE TITLE

Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness

Author: Sam Chase
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1626252890
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Enlightenment isn’t a strange, mystical, or faraway place. It’s a fundamental human experience available to us all in different ways and in different moments.Learn how the ancient philosophy of yoga, modern neuroscience, and positive psychology can help you discover your life’s meaning and purpose, rewire your brain, and uncover lasting happiness and joy. Everyone is looking for happiness, but very few really know where to find it. Maybe it’s that house you’ve been dreaming of buying, or a new car, or the perfect relationship? Or maybe it’s a grand, epic revelation about the meaning of life? But when will that revelation come to you, and how long should you wait? And what if happiness isn’t something you achieve or obtain, but how you respond to the conditions of your life? After all, yogis can find peace and joy even when life is painful and unpleasant. In Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness, you’ll discover that lasting happiness is already at your fingertips—in the small, everyday moments inherently infused with purpose and meaning. The philosophy of yoga—rather than the poses and postures—boils down to one fundamental process: overcoming suffering by coming to know ourselves and aligning our actions with our own intrinsic sense of spiritual purpose. And yoga gives us the tools to address two basic existential questions: Who am I? What should I do? Meanwhile, positive psychology and neuroscience show us how our actions are constantly rewiring our brain in helpful ways—which points to happiness as something we must practice and carry out each day. Happiness is, simply put, something we do. In this unique, lighthearted guide, celebrated yoga instructor Sam Chase blends ancient wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras with his own personal journey of enlightenment to show you how to deepen your understanding of yourself and the world around you, end the cycle of materialism and greed that can get in the way of cultivating stillness of mind, and achieve lasting well-being.

I Am Yoga

Author: Susan Verde
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613128495
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
An eagle soaring among the clouds or a star twinkling in the night sky . . . a camel in the desert or a boat sailing across the sea—yoga has the power of transformation. Not only does it strengthen bodies and calm minds, but with a little imagination, it can show us that anything is possible. New York Times bestselling illustrator Peter H. Reynolds and author and certified yoga instructor Susan Verde team up again in this book about creativity and the power of self-expression. I Am Yoga encourages children to explore the world of yoga and make room in their hearts for the world beyond it. A kid-friendly guide to 17 yoga poses is included.

Happy-Go-Yoga

Author: Christine Chen
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1455581941
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Playful, simple, and beneficial yoga poses and mental exercises set in your real life to help alleviate pain and stress. No mat, big class, or huge time commitment required - just your commitment to feeling better and being happier! "Highly recommended as a way to create healthy habits for a more peaceful, happy life." -- New York Journal of Books Sold globally in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada and More Translated and sold in Russia Advice from the book and author featured in: Fox Health News, HLN/CNN, Todayshow.com, USA Today, AARP Life Reimagined, Costco Connection, Real Simple, Health.com and more! Yoga isn't about becoming a human pretzel, being vegan, or wearing trendy workout clothes to a green juice bar. Based on her own healing journey, instructor Christine Chen presents a fun, easy way to do yoga at home, in the office, during a commute, and more--no matter your fitness level, yoga experience, age or gender. A #1 National Bestseller on Amazon in Exercise & Fitness and Injury Prevention A #1 New Release on Amazon (2015)

Happy U

Author: Olga Kabel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781097219834
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
From an evolutionary standpoint, our brains are wired to be suspicious and expect the worse. This served us well in terms of the survival of the species, but it doesn't work so well if you are trying to minimize the amount of stress and worry in your life. Luckily, within our same brains, we have neurocircuitry dedicated to the feelings of peace, contentment, and joy. This journal relies on recent developments in neuroscience and traditional yogic ideas to enhance each area of your life, whether it's your health, your work, your relationships, or your experiences of joy and contentment. Contrary to popular belief, yoga is not just about stretching or strengthening your body; it is actually about directing your energy and clarifying your mind. It also works really well for breaking the inertia of the daily grind and for helping you reassess who you are, where you are in your life, and where you want to be. Another fundamental idea in yoga is that joy is the essence of who we are, but our unruly thoughts, emotions, perceptions, and reactions often obscure this joy. It is up to us to sort through the clutter and reclaim our inner joy.This journal contains 25 simple activities you can do to unearth your inner joy. They include simple tasks, reflections, and occasional yoga practices to counterbalance the brain's negative bias and make a more positive outlook the new normal. Some activities are only few minutes long; others will involve simply looking at your hurdles in a new light, and others will be full-length yoga practices-you get to pick what fits into your life right now. These small steps have the potential to shift how your brain responds to obstacles and rewire it to experience the world from a calmer and happier place.

Good Morning Yoga

Author: Mariam Gates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781622036028
Category : Hatha yoga for children
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Yoga helps children learn how to focus, relax, and both self-monitor and self-soothe Good Morning Yoga instills these four skills and more, enabling children to jumpstart the day with energy and excitement-and meet the adventures that come with mindfulness and perspective. Good Night Yoga tells the story of the world retiring for the evening-and a new generation of readers has fallen in love with the relaxing sequences and beautiful pictures that lead them to dreamland. Good Morning Yoga weaves gentle exercises with a heartwarming narrative and wonderful illustrations to empower children to manage the energies that visit throughout the day-from the "fiery volcano" to the "mountain quiet and still. Good Morning Yoga concludes with a visualization for kids to set intentions for the day.

Happy Yoga 4 Kids Book 1

Author: Karen Lutz
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105874419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
This book is just a tiny peek into yoga. It is a start for your young child. This book is about having FUN! Children are playful, responsive and love to move!The illustrated poses are here to inspire your child/children. The poses will offer a general idea for your child even if he or she has not tried yoga before! If your child has not learned to read, read to him/her. You can enjoy yoga together!Offer your child the space to move and connect to the poses in any way they embrace. If a pose is not perfect, that is okay right now. This is the beginning of the journey into yoga. Postures and body awareness will improve as your child ages, and as your child practices each pose more and more.The illustrations are here to color and are a way to share yoga with a younger brother or sister. What a wonderful way to begin! Ask yourself "What colors do I think of when I come into mountain pose, or rainbow pose?"