Miriam Austin

Crave yoga's benefits-but afraid to look 'weird'? Think yoga requires you to twist your body like a pretzel? Now there's a friendly, full-color, hand-holding, one-step-at-a-time, few-minutes-a-day way to get started. It meets you right where you are, with three sections that each have a different approach to fit your needs. 'Instant Yoga' gets you going immediately with 15 practice sessions for any time of the day, even when there are only a few minutes to spare. Run through a sequence and the workout's over! 'Fix-Its' offers solutions to specific problems, such as a sore neck, back pain, those aching feet, or stress. In the 'Glossary,' the author demonstrates every pose correctly, with instructions for improving technique.

The changes you experience will amaze and delight you so much you'll never want to wimp out on your workout!

'In yoga, the body is used as an instrument to train the mind, with a central goal being full self-acceptance. Flexibility or lack of flexibilitiy is not the essential issues: what is important is sincere effort. Yoga for Wimps takes the difficult subject of yoga and presents many small, very useful, and encouraging steps-making yoga accessible to those who otherwise would not attempt such a discipline, I hope, trust, and pray that Yoga for Wimps ignites in the reader the enthusiasm to reach for lofty heights.'-Ramanand Patel, International Yoga Teacher

Miriam Austin discovered the wonder of yoga after an injury-and quickly noticed how great she felt on the days she did the exercises. Her back didn't hurt, she felt calm and centered, and even her work improved! Now she loves yoga so much she is an acclaimed teacher.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Author's preface
What is a wimp?
Why is everyone taliking about yoga?
Getting started
1 Instant yoga
Warm-ups
Instant yoga practice sessions
2 Fix-its
The cure for museum-itis, or shopping without dropping
The lower back blues
Rx for the weekend warrior
Oh, my aching feet!
Slaying the stress monster
I'm fried!
Boy, what a pain in the neck!
Alternatives for the couch potato, or poses to do while watching TV
Down in the dumps
3 The glossary
Legs-up-the-wall poses
Seated poses
Chair forward bends
Lying on-the-floor poses
Abdominals
Twists
Pre-backbends
Passive backbends
Feet poses
Standing poses
Standing forward bends
Calves and quads
Arm stretches
Building upper body strength
Resting poses
Miscellaneous poses
A final word
About the models
Index… (meer)