Beschreibung
Awakening the spine:
For more than twenty-five years, until her death at the age of 91, Vanda Scaravelli was transforming bodies and lives with her innovative approach to yoga through the proper alignment of the spine. She listened to the body and worked with instead against it.
She used gravity, grounding, and breath to achieve dramatic improvements in health and well-being.
Scaravelli reminds readers that: „if you are kind to your body, it will respond in an incredible way.“
Awakening the spine offers a gentle way to achieve and maintain overall health and a naturally supple spine – at any age.
Lovingly revised by Vanda’s daughter Paola Scaravelli Cohen, based on the extensive notes Vanda left behind, Awakening the spine is published for the first time as the author intended. With a new foreword by B.K. Iyengar, this is the definitive edition of one of yoga’s all-time classics.
Aus dem Inhaltsverzeichnis:
- Foreword by BKS Iyengar
- Introduction to second edition
- Yoga, science and medicine
- Awakening the spine
- Introduction
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Part 1: The story of stories
- The book
- Whay are we doing yoga?
- How yoga came to me
- The song of the body
- Being young again
- Transformation
- How to respect your body
- The miracle of life
- The teaching
- Meeting of body and mind
- Matter and energy
- Nerves
- Growing taller during the night
- On attention
- On memory and age
- About organizations
- On time
- What do we mean by relaxation?
- The brain
- On beauty
- The necessity of an empty mind
- On walking
- The foot in Chinese tradition
- The foot in Japanese tradition
- The foot in Indian tradition
- The heal in Greek Mythology
- Gravity
- The eagle
- A meeting with death
- Movements: the ancient traditions
- The importance of daily practice
- Reversing
- Going round
- How to practice
- Practical Suggestions
- The advantages of doing yoga
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Part 2: The asanas
- Tadasana
- Standing poses
- Virabhadrasana III
- Utthita Hasta
- …(11 poses)
- Seated forward bending poses
- Utanasana
- … (9 poses)
- Twists
- Marichyasana
- … (13 poses)
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Part 3: Breathing
- Inhalation
- Exhalation
- Pranayama
- Wave
- Biography
- Acknowledgements
- References