The owner of Manhattan's Strala Yoga and author of Slim, Calm, Sexy Yoga demonstrates yoga poses that can ease everyday health challenges, from headaches and anxiety to depression and vertigo.
Do you have a headache? PMS? Cellulite? Shin splints? A broken heart? Or do you just need to chill the *&@# out?There s a yoga cure for each of these things. In
Yoga Cures, Tara Stiles owner of Strala Yoga in Manhattan offers an A-to-Z guide of the poses you can do to target specific problems in your body and get you feeling better right away. Using the fun, fresh approach to yoga she is known for, Stiles takes on more than 50 common ailments ranging from arthritis and fibromyalgia to jiggly thighs and hangovers.
Through a simple sequence of poses for each, suitable for the beginner through the advanced practitioner, she provides smart remedies that will keep you healthy and happy.
Tara Stiles has got to be the coolest yoga instructor ever.
Vanity Fair One of the things I like about [Tara Stiles] is her ability to make yoga accessible to people who might be scared of it or think it might be too esoteric.
Jane Fonda Tara Stiles delivers powerful healing wisdom in an accessible, down-to-earth way. If you ve got an ache, pain or ism, she s got the natural answer. So dump the over-the-counter pills and pop open
Yoga Cures.
Kris Carr,
New York Times bestselling author of
Crazy Sexy Diet Tara Stiles is a committed teacher and healer. In
Yoga Cures, Tara shares her intuitive gift for healing physical pain through yoga. This practical guide offers powerful solutions for stretching beyond ailments into vibrant health.
Gabrielle Bernstein, bestselling author of
Spirit Junkie
You need this book, just like I did. Look at Tara; look at how pain-free, wrinkle-free, and jiggly thigh free this incredible teacher and model student is, and you can see she holds the key to unlocking a life full of easy, attainable, affordable abundance. Within these pages are the tips and tools you
need to reconnect your body and mind, stretch your potential, and maximize this moment. Let Tara show you how you can be doing more for yourself, every moment.
Once you feel what it s like to run on premium fuel, there s no turning back!
Daphne Oz
With many charismatic yoga experts touting cures and transformations, Stiles s easygoing, personable approach is refreshing.
Publishers Weekly
A delightful, refreshing guide.
Tao Porchon-Lynch
Tara Stiles is the owner of Strala Yoga in Manhattan, as well as the author of Slim Calm Sexy Yoga and star of the Yoga Transformation DVDs alongside Deepak Chopra.
Chapter 1
What Is Yoga?
You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the mighty ocean in the drop. --Rumi
Yoga means union. The Sanskrit word yoga has many meanings: to unite, to join, to contemplate, and to be absorbed. When we practice it regularly, we unite our mind, body, and spirit. We connect with ourselves, and we are able to connect more meaningfully with others and the world we are in. It s like calling a meeting with your whole self so that you can check in on you.
Yoga is the ultimate act of self-study. It is a daily dive deep into ourselves, where we come back refreshed and ready for all comers. Yoga goes much deeper than stretching. How you live in your body, how you experience it, is how you live in your mind, and the other way around, too. What do I mean by this? If your mind is tense your body is tense, and it dominos through the rest of your life. If your mind is out of balance, your body is out of balance, and your life can spiral out of control. If your mind is calm, open, and focused, your body and life also reflect and expand accordingly.
Yoga shows us how to wrangle the mind to serve us throughout our lives. Without such wrangling, the mind can spin off in many destructive directions. But get that monkey mind in hand, and your potential is limitless. Boundaries fade and life expands . . . the more you practice.
Why believe me? I m not the only one to expound on the benefits of yoga. Many researchers throughout the world have studied yoga and meditation. They ve just firmed up what we who do it already know: a regular yoga practice reduces stress, calms the mind, makes you happier, eases pain, increases mental sharpness, and prevents and heals all kinds of ailments and diseases. Yoga is a practice for living a better life, one deep breath at a time.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF YOGA--VERY BRIEF
No one knows exactly when the practice of yoga began, which makes sense since it is something that exists always and is inside of all of us. Traditionally, yoga is a practice to unite with the Absolute, recognizing that the Absolute is within all of us. Yoga joins together the body, mind, and spirit as one. Like air, water, and earth, yoga is an element that is contained in all of us. In the Indus Valley of northwestern India, stone carvings depicting figures in yoga poses have been found dating back five thousand years or more. There is a common misconception that yoga developed out of Hinduism. However, Hinduism s religious structures evolved much later and incorporated practices and ideas that are yoga traditions. Yoga probably arrived in the United States in the late 1800s, but it did not become widely known until the 1960s, when it became popular in the entertainment, pop culture, hippie, and intellectual scenes. George Harrison s interest in Eastern mysticism was sparked upon meeting with Swami Vishnu-devananda, the founder of Sivananda Yoga centers around the world, who handed Harrison a copy of his book The Illustrated Book of Yoga while the Beatles were on location in the Bahamas filming Help! The Beatles began to study Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in London and Wales, and eventually at his ashram in Rishikesh in the Himalayas. The Beatles were joined by Mia Farrow, Donovan, and Mike Love of the Beach Boys, who all jumped on the bandwagon.
Around the same time, Harvard professor Richard Alpert, now known as Ram Dass, conducted meditation and psychedelic experiments on prisoners. Upon being asked to leave Harvard for his unorthodox experiments, Alpert went to India to be with Neem Karoli Baba, who would become his guru and give him the name Ram Dass, meaning servant of Lord Rama. Yogis Sri Krishnamacharya, Swami Sivananda, Shri Yogendra, and Swami Kuvalayananda made efforts to include women and foreigners, who had been excluded from the practice. They also believ
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Do you have a headache? PMS? Cellulite? Shin splints? A broken heart? Or do you just need to chill the *&@# out?
There's a yoga cure for each of these things. In Yoga Cures, Tara Stiles-owner of Strala Yoga in Manhattan-offers an A-to-Z guide of the poses you can do to target specific problems in your body and get you feeling better right away. Using the fun, fresh approach to yoga she is known for, Stiles takes on more than 50 common ailments ranging from arthritis and fibromyalgia to jiggly thighs and hangovers.
Through a simple sequence of poses for each, suitable for the beginner through the advanced practitioner, she provides smart remedies that will keep you healthy and happy.