Discover how yoga can provide health benefits specifically for your female body, whatever your stage of life. Women are more prone to asthma, thyroid disease, and osteoporosis, and can use yoga to mitigate against such health threats. You may be pregnant or a new mother, balancing family commitments, or feel exhausted all the time - Yoga for Women has ideal programmes to help you find renewed energy and inner calm. Discover how certain asanas can build bone strength or a healthy respiratory system, relieve stress and boost energy, improve your sex life, provide gentle exercise during pregnancy, or alleviate pain or the symptoms of menopause. Start with the basics, including simple warm-ups and poses that will enhance your well-being. Then explore sequences that help you to guard against female health issues and meet the challenges that life presents. Yoga for Women is perfect for women at every stage of life.

How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than fifty yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.

From Women's Health contributor and yoga expert Kathryn Budig-the essential, authoritative guide to yoga, for beginners and beyond. Approximately 16 millions Americans now practice yoga on a regular basis. Devotees can't rave enough about this ancient art of meditation, breathing, and physical postures that calms the mind and slims the body. Unlike fitness fads, yoga is worth the hype. The postures stretch and tone lean muscle mass and sculpt a strong and slender physique-burning up to 400 calories in a 90-minute session. But yoga does something even better. It's proven to reduce the biggest cause of weight gain-stress-which 43% of Americans say makes them overeat. This definitive volume features: - every essential pose to help readers lose weight and transform their bodies - Total Body Yoga: targeted workouts in 15 minutes or less - core-strengthening routines for hotter, more satisfying sex - a healthy, mindful eating plan centered around calming, cleansing foods Covering everything from basic postures to relaxation techniques to avoiding common injuries, The Women's Health Big Book of Yoga is the only guide readers need to achieve their fittest, healthiest, happiest selves.

YOGA is considered uniquely instrumental in the search for self realisation, and through it the realisation of God. The author, who has mastered the subtle techniques of this art, has presented it in book form, showing a variety of āsanas known for their physical and curative values, Prānāyāma with its Bandhas and Dhyāna or meditation. The āsanas in the book are divided into various sections dealing with simple standing positions, forward bends, lateral movements backward extensions of the spine, correct breathing techniques during the performance of the āsanas and also the effects of the āsanas on the body, nerves and mind. The author has included simple steps for advancing from a purely physical plane to a higher level of consciousness. Almost all the illustrations in the book are her own.

Postnatal Sex: Navigating Intimacy After Baby Congratulations on your new arrival! Now, as a new parent, you're navigating the incredible journey of postnatal life, and with it comes the challenge of rediscovering intimacy after childbirth. : A New Chapter Begin your journey toward postnatal intimacy with insights into the physical, emotional, and hormonal changes that lay the foundation for this transformative phase. Chapter 1: Physical Changes and Recovery Explore the postnatal body, its recovery process, and how it affects your intimate life. Chapter 2: Emotional and Psychological Factors Understand the emotional aspects of postpartum life and how they influence your intimacy. Chapter 3: Hormonal Changes Dive into the hormonal shifts that impact your desire and learn how to manage them. Chapter 4: Body Image and Self-Esteem Address body image issues and boost self-esteem, enhancing your confidence in the bedroom. Chapter 5: Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Learn how postnatal mental health can affect your intimacy and strategies for addressing it. Chapter 6: Communicating with Your Partner Discover the power of open, honest communication in strengthening your emotional bond. Chapter 7: Expressing Your Needs and Desires Master the art of expressing your desires and understanding your partner's. Chapter 8: Seeking Professional Help Recognize when professional guidance is necessary and how it can transform your intimate life. Chapter 9: Intimacy Beyond Penetrative Sex Explore various dimensions of intimacy, from sensual touch to emotional connection. Chapter 10: Practical Tips for Postnatal Sex Gain valuable insights and tips for rekindling the passion in your postpartum sex life. Conclusion: Embrace Postnatal Intimacy Wrap up your journey with newfound knowledge and the tools to rekindle the flame in your relationship. Your postnatal journey is an adventure filled with love, challenges, and newfound intimacy. "Postnatal Sex: Navigating Intimacy After Baby" is your trusted guide to a fulfilling and loving post-baby intimate life. Get your copy now and strengthen the connection with your partner!Table of Contents Introduction Postnatal Yoga vs. Postnatal Pilates: Which is Right for You? BENEFITS OF POSTNATAL YOGA BENEFITS OF POSTNATAL PILATES SIMILARITIES BETWEEN POSTNATAL YOGA AND PILATES MODIFICATIONS FOR POSTPARTUM BODIES POSTNATAL YOGA CLASSES AND PROGRAMS POSTNATAL PILATES CLASSE S AND PROGRAMS CONSIDERATIONS FOR POSTPARTUM RECOVERY COMBININ G YOGA AND PILATES IMPORTANCE OF SELF -CARE AND LISTENING TO YOUR BODY POSTNATAL YOGA AND PILATES: LONG -TERM BENEFITS FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Have Questions / Comments? Get Another Book Free

Explains the particular advantages yoga offers to women as both a way to fitness and a means to relaxation and inner peace.

Using yoga to manage the challenges of cancer and its treatment • Explains how to create a safe home yoga practice that addresses the specific physical needs, risks, and emotions of cancer patients and survivors • Includes 53 yoga poses and 9 practice sequences that use movement and breathing to reduce and manage treatment side effects • Reveals how current research supports the physical and psychological benefits of yoga to aid recovery and reduce risk of recurrence • Written by a cancer survivor and certified yoga teacher For those faced with a cancer diagnosis and the journey of doctor-led surgery and treatments, yoga offers a way to regain control of your body and take an active part in your recovery and long-term health. In this easy-to-follow illustrated guide, yoga teacher and cancer survivor Tari Prinster presents 53 traditional yoga poses that are adapted for all levels of ability and cancer challenges. She then applies the movements and breathwork of these poses to address 10 common side effects and offers 9 practice sequences for varying stages of treatment and recovery. Sharing her own story as well as those of cancer survivors and yoga teachers with whom she has worked, Prinster explores how yoga can be used to strengthen the immune system, rebuild bone density, avoid and manage lymphedema, decrease anxiety, detoxify the body, reduce pain, and help the body repair damage caused by the cancer and conventional treatments. She reveals the research that supports the physical and psychological benefits of yoga as an aid to recovery and in reducing the risk of recurrence. Explaining how yoga must be tailored to each survivor, Prinster gives you the tools to create a safe home yoga practice, one that addresses your abilities, energy level, and overall health goals. Through personal stories, well-illustrated poses, and sample practices for beginners as well as experienced yoga practitioners, Prinster empowers survivors to create their own wellness plan in order to regain their independence and their physical and emotional well-being.