America’s leading expert on yoga for active people, Sage Rountree, shares her approach to practicing yoga every day in this colorful, lay-flat guide to yoga poses and routines.
Flexibility, balance, whole-body strength, recovery, range of motion, focus–a regular yoga practice brings many benefits to people who lead active lives. For athletes in particular, the dynamic stretching of athlete-friendly yoga poses and properly designed yoga exercises can counteract the tightness and imbalances that come from daily workouts.
In Everyday Yoga, certified coach and registered yoga teacher Sage Rountree shares the yoga positions and exercises she has developed in her own yoga studio, at Kripalu, and working with active people during her popular yoga clinics around the country. She guides experienced yoga practitioners and yoga beginners on the best ways to design and develop their own at-home yoga routines.
Everyday Yoga provides endless opportunities to explore and practice yoga in your own home:
- How to design yoga sessions to address the whole body or specific areas
- How to sequence yoga poses for a satisfying practice
- How to create yoga routines of varying duration from 5 to 50 minutes
- How to make yoga poses easier or more challenging
Each Everyday Yoga routine moves the spine in every direction and loosens tight hips in routines that can last from 5 to 50 minutes, leaving readers satisfied and relaxed. By sequencing several routines together, readers can build stronger, more flexible, injury-resistant bodies.
The choices of which asanas to do and the sequence in which you do them often make a difference in the quality of your practice experience. Some combinations of asanas result in an “Ah Ha” experience in which you find yourself gaining what we can call neuromuscular insight. You learn things about your body and the way you are functioning that you just can’t learn any other way. If you have ever had the good fortune to train with a gifted teacher, you may have experienced this.
After three months of working these sequences into my personal practice a few times a week, I have had several pleasant “Ah Ha” experiences. If you incorporate the information in this book into your practice, you may have some of these experiences too.
Full Disclosure: I am both a former and possibly a future student of the author.
The best part is, I feel good when I'm done.
It's my favorite traveling yoga companion, too. Video classes are great, but when you just have a few minutes and need to work on a few specific things, there's nothing better than being able to flip quickly through a book like this and get to it. And if you have longer or want to build daily routines, this book will get you there. Highly recommended.