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Kripalu Yoga: A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat |  | Authors: Richard Faulds, Senior Teaching Staff of Kripalu Center
Creators: Robert Bull, Paul Conrath
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 48777
Media: Paperback
Pages: 432
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0553380974
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7046
EAN: 9780553380972
ASIN: 0553380974
Publication Date: December 27, 2005
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Product Description
“Over an extraordinary thirty year history, Kripalu Center has been a pioneer in combining authentic yoga with a contemporary Western lifestyle.” —John Abbott, President, Yoga Journal
From the senior teachers of the world-renowned Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health–the largest yoga and retreat center in North America–comes this comprehensive guide to the unique and influential Kripalu method, which emphasizes individual growth over outward perfection of form, making it accessible to people of all ages, fitness levels, and body types.
KRIPALU YOGA
A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat
Beginning with step-by-step “experiences” that teach essential body and breath awareness, Kripalu Yoga features fully illustrated routines for beginners and intermediate students , including Kripalu’s easy-to-follow “press point” instructions. For advanced students, there is a broad menu of additional poses to increase strength, flexibility, and challenge.
Far more than an exercise program, Kripalu Yoga also teaches the lifestyle practices and energy techniques that make yoga a powerful catalyst for physical healing, psychological growth, and spiritual awakening.
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Getting inside of Kripalu Yoga July 29, 2010
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This book has a ton of information but is reader friendly. I read it before yoga teacher training and used it throughout. It is now a go to in my resource library.
good intro September 25, 2009
C. Popa (NJ, USA)
This is a good intro to Kripalu style of yoga. It's written in a very accessible language with lots of personal anecdotes of people who attended Kripalu workshops. I bought it because it was required for a yoga teacher training class, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it. it's still good for someone who's new to yoga and wants to understand the process. But if you're looking for something new or more in depth, skip this one.
Kripalu yoga book September 3, 2009
Kay (California)
GREAT book ! The best I've found on Kripalu yoga. Very user friendly...for beginning _and_ for advanced yoga students. I highly recommend this book if you're interested in learning and/or honing your skills.
 Some skepticism advised August 10, 2009
Loves to Knit (NJ, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is my second book on kripalu yoga, the first being Megan Garcia's MegaYoga. I also bought the companion DVD, and really enjoyed the poses. I bought this book to learn more poses, rather than as a guide for "off the mat;" I'm a practitioner of my own religion, so I admit to skimming some of those parts since I wouldn't practice them anyway. What I like best about the book (and kripalu yoga in general) is the recognition that not everyone is flexible enough to bend into a pretzel. In fact, the book emphasizes that it will not teach the plough, full-lotus, or full headstand poses, as those are not part of kripalu tradition in that they may cause injury. The photos and description of poses were helpful, even for ones I was already doing.
What I disliked was some of the pseudo-scientific explanations about disease, such as references to Candace Pert's discredited work (she left the NIH many years before the book was published; she pretty much left mainstream science for personal reasons but I digress), references to alternative medicine as if they provide cures (when they do, they are called merely medicine), and so forth. I thought yoga is its own discipline, and does not need to refer to anything else. In addition, some of the quotes from practitioners were pretty trite: "I was overworked and yoga changed my life" was the common theme. Yes, yoga is great (I wouldn't practice it nearly every day for an hour), but a little profundity, a little depth in the quotes chosen would have helped this reader understand more about what is special about yoga. My last problem is with revering Swami Desai, who was caught in a sex scandal with 2 female disciples (revealed in the Afterword). At least, exclude him and just include the quotes from Swami Kriplau; they actually had a lot of depth. Still, I give the book 4 stars because, I got out of it what I wanted very well, and that is an illustrated guide to more asanas in kripalu yoga, and more in depth discussions on the technique.
Fabulous May 20, 2008
S. Shivers (Phoenix, AZ)
This is a great book. I'm in a yoga teacher training program and was doing a project on Kripalu so I ordered this book. I am thrilled with it so far and I'm sure I'll be using it a lot when I start teaching.
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