Gardener's Yoga: 40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden Flow

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With the right sequence of yoga poses, a gardener's body can bend with the wind and stretch to the sky to alleviate the aches that come from all that digging, pulling, and carrying. In this beautifully illustrated book, forty yoga poses are divided into seasonal sequences--or flows--each addressing the gardener's body, the state of the garden, and the natural world. The spring flow, for example, includes ten poses that emphasize stretching that counters the hunched-over activity of setting new plants into the ground and opening up the shoulders and chest just as the garden blossoms. The practice of yoga aligns perfectly with gardening in its motions, metaphors, and calming effects.

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"Though dedicated yogis may already be doing many of these straightforward poses, I found making the connection between the seasonal tasks I'm doing and the yoga poses that help made me feel enthused to actually do them, which is half the battle in staying fit and strong."
The North Coast Journal

"Gardeners Yogawill appeal to new and existing gardener yogis, as well as to yoga teachers who are looking for inspiration in crafting seasonal flows."
New York Botanical Gardens: Plant Talk Blog

Author Bio

VERONICA D'ORAZIO is a yoga instructor and freelance floral designer in Seattle. She teaches yoga in studio and private settings and has been a florist for over fifteen years. She is the co-author of Fleurish.