Yoga XXL

A Journey to Health for Bigger People

by Ingrid Kollak, PhD, RN

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Pub Date Aug 20 2013 | Archive Date Oct 07 2013

Description

Yoga XXL shows you how to create a safe, enjoyable, and effective yoga practice no matter what your age, size, shape, or physical fitness level. Yoga is not just for the lean and limber. With modified postures and props, everyone can experience yoga's many health benefits including increased flexibility, strength, stamina, balance, energy, and calm.

For the person who has never done yoga before or the regular practitioner looking to refine their practice at home, Yoga XXL includes:

-Practical information about clothing, mats, and equipment
-Over 50 postures in a variety of positions including seated, lying down, and standing, chosen specifically for people with larger bodies and those with limited mobility
-Variations to accommodate every body shape, size, and fitness level to ensure comfort and safety
-Postures to ease back aches, tight muscles, and joint stiffness
-Quick daily routines to help recharge and relieve stress throughout the day
-Detailed instructions and photos illustrating each pose, and much more.

With Yoga XXL you'll have everything you need to bring yoga - and more health and wellness - into your daily life immediately.

Yoga XXL shows you how to create a safe, enjoyable, and effective yoga practice no matter what your age, size, shape, or physical fitness level. Yoga is not just for the lean and limber. With...

Advance Praise

"Superb... The descriptions, contraindications, alignments, and instructions for each posture are overly thorough - a good thing... Professionally packaged, high quality books, like Yoga XXL, that take the differently abled needs of larger yoginis seriously, are necessary." - ForeWord Reviews

"Yoga has become an integral part of the practice of well-being, preventive medicine, and disease management. Kollak has written an excellent and effortless book responding to the challenge of yoga for large bodies. Yoga XXL proves that those of us unable to get into skinny poses can safely practice yoga and benefit from a powerful mind-body practice. Enjoy!" - Reza Yavari, MD, endocrinologist and author of It Must Be My Metabolism!