Weight-Resistance Yoga: Practicing Embodied Spirituality

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Applying the wisdom of hatha yoga to weight-lifting exercises, WEIGHT-RESISTANCE YOGA reveals how to transform a strength-training session into a mindful, calm, and meditative yoga practice. Through 26 fully illustrated weight-resistance exercises using machines, free weights, and the body itself--along with an emphasis on coordinated rhythmic breathing, stability, stillness, and full absorption in the body's movements against resistance--fitness trainer Max Popov explains how to access the tranquillity that dwells within each of us while safely, effectively, and efficiently strengthening your neck, shoulders, arms, torso, hips, knees, and ankles. To support the meditative state of this practice, the author includes 20 themed meditations on the embodied experience of the exercises. The perfect complement to yoga flexibility practice, weight-resistance yoga allows you to fully inhabit your body, empty your mind of everyday preoccupations, and fill your soul with comprehensions of deeper realities, providing strength, calm, and spiritual illumination through your physical fitness work. . Explains how to induce a calm, meditative state through the movements, breathing, and focus of strength-training exercises . Contains illustrated instructions for 26 exercises to safely strengthen the neck, shoulders, arms, hips, knees, ankles, and torso . Offers themed meditations on the embodied experience of the exercises to facilitate a mindful state during your session . The perfect complement to a yoga flexibility practice

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Very impressive and necessary. Im excited by this unique blend of Western-style strength training combined with the flexibility and meditative side of yoga. Popovs book is for all of us. It offers functional movement along with serentiy and mindfulness. * Colleen Craig, author of Pilates on the Ball, Abs on the Ball, and Strength Training on the Ball *
Melding hatha yoga and weight training into a blended practice, Max Popov shows us how these disciplines are not only completely compatible but also how each brilliantly supports the others path of inquiry. By combining both, we go far beyond the individual benefits of stretching or strength and enter directly into the domain of a powerfully embodied spirituality. * Will Johnson, author of Yoga of the Mahamudra *
Bringing the yogic principle of mindfulness into all aspects of our lives is one of the ultimate goals of yoga. I recommend this book for anyone wishing to bring more spiritual depth to any physical exercise program. * Biff Mithoefer, author of The Yin Yoga Kit and coauthor of The Therapeutic Yoga Kit *
...if youre looking for a link between the muscles and the spirit, Weight Resistance Yoga might be what youre looking for. * Lisa James, Energy Times , December 2011 *
...the information provided is very valuable and explained thoroughly...this book is a treasure waiting to be discovered. * Holly Scudero, San Francisco and Sacramento Book Review, January 2012 *
Popov is a good writer and I like his exercise methods. He did an outstanding job with the weight resistance training sections of the book. * Patricia Snodgrass, Facing North, July 2012 *
In Weight-Resistance Yoga, author Max Popov blends weight training and yoga practice in a conscious manner. His attention to paying attention assures not only a well-sculpted form but also a finely honed mind. * Christopher S. Kilham, author of The Five Tibetans *
This more meditative form of weight lifting seeks self-liberation through the mindful movements of the joints against resistance. * Yoga Journal *

Author Bio

Max Popov is a fitness trainer and scholar of modern yoga. He developed weightresistance yoga in the late 1980s by applying the teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar to the strength-training teachings of famed 1920s Indian bodybuilder K. V. Iyer. He lives in New York City.