Hatha Yoga Asanas By Daniel DiTuro And Ingrid Yang

Finally, an easy-to-use quick-reference guide that captures the beauty and essence of hatha yoga itself.

Hatha Yoga Asanas: Pocket Guide for Personal Practice features full-color photos, basic movement cues, the English and Sanskrit names, and difficulty ratings for over 150 poses, including these:

- Bound angle
- Bow
- Bridge
- Chair
- Child's
- Cobra
- Crescent lunge
- Crow
- Dancer I
- Downward-facing dog
- Forward bend
- Garland
- Half moon
- Headstand
- Intense side stretch
- Lord of the fishes
- Lotus
- Pigeon
- Shoulder stand
- Side angle
- Staff
- Tree
- Triangle
- Upward-facing dog
- Warrior
- Wheel

Simple, attractive, and convenient, Hatha Yoga Asanas: Pocket Guide for Personal Practice is the one reference every practitioner and instructor should own.


Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Asanas
Sun Salutation
Suggested Readings
Resources
Index of Asanas
About the Authors

Released 2012
192 Pages


About The Author

A self-taught photographer, Daniel DiTuro began a series of yoga photographs in 1999 shortly after taking his first yoga class. In 2001 he founded The Yoga Project to promote the physical and mental wellness of mind, body, and spirit through the creation and publication of inspirational and motivational meditation and yoga asanas photographs. In 2003, DiTuro, along with Martin Kirk and Brooke Boone, released the best-seller Hatha Yoga Illustrated, which contains over 600 of his yoga photographs.

Coauthor Ingrid Yang embarked on her yoga journey in 1999 in New York City, where she studied directly with David Life at Jivamukti Yoga Center and Cyndi Lee at OM Yoga Center. She is the founder of Blue Point Yoga Center in Durham, North Carolina, and teaches a variety of yoga disciplines, including vinyasa, restorative, yin, and cancer therapy. She leads teacher trainings and workshops in the United States, Australia, and Asia.