Beschreibung
Untertitel: What you need to know for pain prevention and rehabilitation.
Klappentext: Sandy Blaine has been teaching yoga full time in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993. In 1995, she graduated from the Advanced Studies Program at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, California, and joined the faculty in 2000. She is a cofounder and codirector of the Alameda Yoga Station. Her writing has appeared in Ascent, Yoga International, and Yoga Journal. She lives in Oakland, California.
Drawing on her expertise as a yoga teacher who has used yoga to recover from knee pain and to keep her knees healthy, Sandy Blaine presents a comprehensive yoga program to help you:
- understand common knee problems that cause pain and limit mobility
- establish safety guidelines to help you get started
- use props, such as blankets and towels, to support your body and your mind
- practice poses for pain prevention and rehabilitation
- move in your everyday life, whether you are an athlete or sedentary
Aus dem Inhalt:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Factors in common knee problems
- Hyperextension
- Feet: Supination and pronation
- Tight muscles
- Part II: Practicing yoga for knee care
- Guiding your practice
- Poses for healthy knees
- Putting the poses together
- Part III: Everyday knees
- Shoes
- Feet
- For Athletes
- For those with a less-active lifestyle
- Knee injuries
- Moving from sitting to standing
- Do something you love every day
- Resources
- About the model
- About the author
- From the publisher
- Index
Leseempfehlung: Das Buch ist einfach verständlich geschrieben und klar strukturiert und eignet sich einfacher Ratgeber zur Übungspraxis.