Review: Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff
Anyone who is a regular yoga practitioner or a yoga instructor wants to know which muscles are being stretched and exercised in which yoga poses. Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff offers wonderful information on this very topic. With crystal clear illustrations by a medical illustrator, Sharon Ellis, this book offers the reader a chance to look at what is happening in the human body as an individual performs a yoga pose.
We all know that proper breathing is one of the main premises of yoga. Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff begins with a description of the dynamics of breathing and the physiology involved in it in the first chapter. The second chapter covers another essential part of yoga, the spine. The third chapter then goes into describing the various yoga poses in short.
After these beginning chapters about the essential aspects of yoga, the book goes into describing and illustrating the various muscles involved in different yoga poses. The book is divided into various sections based on the different types of yoga poses. You can just pick one of the poses, look at the pictures, and get a lot of information. You will be able to find out which muscles are involved in that pose, the various joint actions involved, which body parts are being lengthened by it, what obstacles you may encounter, and suggestions on where your breath should be focusing.
- What makes this book really unique are the wonderful illustrations and pictures. They very clearly show what exactly the muscles and the bones are doing in different yoga poses.
- For some poses, the organs and joints are also illustrated. And the pictures for some yoga asanas have been taken from very interesting angles.
- So, along with the usual side views and front and back views, you also get a bottom and top view.
- This provides the yoga enthusiast a very interesting view of some of the yoga poses which are missing in other yoga books. You can actually view the movement of some of the muscles which otherwise wouldn’t be possible.
And if you have always wondered about how to correctly pronounce those difficult Sanskrit names, this book will help. It gives the English names of the poses along with the Sanskrit names and also tells you how to correctly pronounce it.
In summary, if you want to know which muscles, bones, organs, and joints are involved in a yoga pose and why you may be having difficulties in performing it, Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff will provide you with all the answers. If you enjoyed this article, please take the time and take our yoga survey so we may continue to research articles of interest. Click Here to take survey
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