Yoga and the Alexander Technique: Intelligent Injury-Free Yoga

Yoga instructors, Alexander Technique teachers and those who are serious, curious and open-minded about their yoga practice will find much in this book of interest to them. With thirty years of teaching experience in the Alexander Technique and yoga David Moore brings fresh and practical insights into how the Alexander Technique can contribute to yoga practice. More than an instruction manual, this book, complete with visual examples, offers readers a critical approach to yoga practise. Furthermore, this guide accommodates the needs of people with a diverse range of movement, in terms of injuries, structure, strength and flexibility. Offering comprehensive advice in modifying yoga practice, David takes account of the huge variability in people doing yoga practice and examines how to deal intelligently with this variability. The topics covered in this book include: • Applying the Alexander Technique for safe and effective yoga practice • Altering poses to suit a wide range of structural issues, body-types, and flexibility • Dealing with pain and injury • Insights from the Alexander Technique about posture and movement • Altering faulty breathing patterns • How Hatha Yoga, Patanjali, and Buddhist insight practices relate to the Alexander Technique • Bringing the practice into daily life • Balancing the autonomic nervous system • Mindfulness and meditation • Changing habits • Anatomical considerations and constraints in asana practice