Partner Yoga: Making Contact for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual GrowthRodale, 2000 - 239 pages Partner Yoga Making Contact for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Growth Like food and water, touch and intimacy are basic human needs. As naked and vulnerable newborns, we thrive on skin-to-skin contact with other humans. Yet somewhere between infancy and adulthood, this fulfilling nourishment from touch is virtually lost. In today's high-tech world, most of us are more comfortable connecting with each other through machines and modems than our own skin. Yet for optimum health, we all need to touch-- and be touched. Partner Yoga can be practiced with a friend, lover, gym buddy-- even your child. It can be practiced indoors, outdoors, in a group-- even on a beach. Partner Yoga is a bold, new step in the evolution of yoga. With their 30 years of combined experience in yoga, medicine, fitness, dance, the martial arts, and music, Cain Carroll and Lori Kimata, N.D., have developed a totally new yoga practice that blends mutually beneficial postures, conscious breathing, trust, communication, and-- most of all-- playfulness and fun. The 60 dynamic postures and 3 yoga flows introduced in this book offer a threshold into a provocative and exciting yoga experience. Developed with reverence for the ancient tradition of yoga, these beautiful postures are designed to help improve balance, strength, and flexibility as well as increase the level of trust and communication between you and your partner. Partner Yoga is perfect for anyone-- novice or seasoned yoga practitioner-- who is interested in increasing fitness, releasing tension, strengthening relationships, and having a good time. So find a partner and explore the possibilities! |
Contents
Welcome to Partner Yoga | 3 |
Building on a Timeless Tradition | 17 |
Making Contact | 23 |
Breath Is Life | 29 |
Your Natural Alignment | 37 |
Warming Up | 43 |
Partner Postures | 59 |
Surrendering in Trust | 95 |
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30 seconds abdominal muscles allow ankles arms overhead asana Ashtanga Yoga B.K.S. Iyengar back bend back to back begin bend forward bend your knees Benefits Partner breathe deeply bring buttocks CAUTIONS Child Pose create Earth Poses eight-fold path facing your partner fear feel feet flexibility floor flow focus Forward Bend gently ground hamstrings handstand head heart hold steady Hold the pose Inhale and lengthen intimacy keep kundalini lengthen your spine Lifts Lifts Lifts lower back move One's Opens the chest palms Partner One Strengthens Partner Pointers Partner partner postures partner's back partner's hands Pattabhi Jois physical Poses Earth Poses sasod practicing Partner Yoga Pranayama Relax your shoulders ribs sacrum sciatica side spiritual Sritattvanidhi Standing Poses stay sternum Strengthens the thighs stretch tailbone TECHNIQUE tion toes touch Twin Peaks Two's upper back varicose veins Wabi-Sabi warm weight yoga postures Yoga Sutra yogis