Title:
The yoga engineer's manual : the anatomy and mechanics of a sustainable practice
Author:
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2021]
Physical Description:
352 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN:
9781623176334
Abstract:
"An innovative new yoga manual emphasizing the anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics of the body, resulting in a safer and more effective yogic practice"-- Provided by publisher.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Perspectives on practice and teaching -- Basic terminology -- Review/Study guide -- The nervous system -- Respiratory system -- Skeletal system -- Integumentary system -- Muscular system -- Regions of the body -- Joints and their risk factors -- Principles of physiology -- Vocabulary -- Observation tips : clothing, bony landmarks, prana -- "Getting the feel" for observation while teaching...and then teaching to those observations -- Cueing principles -- Shifting the common rhetoric -- Bones -- Range of motion -- Muscles -- Experiential learning -- Limitations -- Principles of teaching -- Observation skills -- Cueing principles (Dirty dozen redux) -- Practice mechanics -- Practice teaching Bones -- Joints and connective tissue -- Range of motion -- Muscles -- Bandhas -- Experiential learning -- Limitations -- Common conditions -- Relationship to the spine -- Principles of teaching + practice mechanics -- Vocabulary.
Language:
English