Book Recommendations
Yoga Anatomy
Yoga Anatomy 3rd Edition – Leslie Kaminoff and Amy Matthews – the first and second editions are also great if you can pick them up second hand.
Anatomy & Yoga a Guide for Teachers & Students – Ellen Saltonstall (More useful for teachers and those really interested in anatomy).
Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health – Nicky Jenkins and Leigh Brandon
Stretching Anatomy – Arnold G. Nelson and Jouko Kokkonen
Chair Yoga
A Chair for Yoga – Eyal Shifroni. A wonderful book for those with mobility issues or movement difficulties, and also a wonderful book for deepening your practice at any level of physical ability, as working with a chair allows you to deepen your experience of the pose with more ease and support.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga for Life – Gail Boorstein Grossman
Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times – Judith Hanson Lassatar
Mudra
Yoga In Your Hands – Gertrud Hirschi
Yoga For Healthy Aging
Relax into Yoga for Seniors – Kimberly Carson and Carol Krucoff. Not just for seniors, this is a wonderful book with a full 6 week progamme showing lots of progressions and modification for the yoga poses.
Yoga for Osteoporosis – Loren Fishman
Yoga for Healthy Aging – Baxter Bell and Nina Zolotow
”I love the way that each book — any book — is its own journey. You open it, and off you go…” – Sharon Creech