Lilias! Yoga Gets Better with Age
Product Description
Nothing softens the aging process like yoga! Now, the First Lady of Yoga shows how to add more flexibility, energy, and joy to your life–with her new method of “yin” stretching for the maturing body.
As Americans in their 40s, 50s, and beyond search for ways to increase flexibility, diminish aches and pains, enhance well-being, and slow the aging process, the word is out: yoga does all this and more. But traditional yoga poses and stretches can be a problem … More >>
Lilias takes the maturation of compassion and wisdom into a practice that can be simply used. Drawing on her profound and singular path to yoga, and charted with descriptions of deeply personal lessons, she offers instruction that is as layered as it is clear, creating a guide for peace seekers of all stripes.
==Carrie Schneider, author, “American Yoga,” “Yoga Within”; carrieyoga.com
Rating: 2 / 5
I have been doing yoga nearly as long as Lilias. From the title, I expected this to be a book about how to adapt a yoga practice as one faces the challenges of growing older. Instead, it is an extremely rudimentary introduction targeted at older people.
If you enjoy Lilias, have no clue whatsoever about yoga, and think you might like to investigate, this book may serve as a starting place. If you’re looking for something to enrich an existing practice, or are at all serious about beginning a practice, better to look for something more substantial.
Rating: 2 / 5
Yoga gets better with age, and age gets better with yoga a la Lilias.
Whether you grew up learning triangle pose watching Lilias on TV, or if you are brand new to yoga, “Yoga Gets Better With Age” is for yogis of any age or level of wellness.
Clear, concise and with lots of easy to follow pictures featuring people with real bodies, “Yoga Gets Better with Age” stands out from the pack.
Rating: 5 / 5
Lilias’s book is an excellent resource for understanding yoga but also to better understand your own practice. Lilias shares her knowledge of yoga in a holistic manner, covering all of the major topics necessary to gain a true understanding. She communicates the philosophy and practice through her own experiences so that it is not intimidating and easy to understand for a yogi at any level. It is a truly wonderful book and Lilias’s enthusiasm for yoga is felt in every word you will read.
Rating: 5 / 5
Lilias took a different approach in this crowded yoga book world with her easy-to-understand proses and the combinations of yoga poses to the uses of yoga philosophy to address our busy mind. After reading her book, I turned to my wife and said: WOW, this book was written for me, a 51 years old guy. As we get older, yoga is no longer about picture perfect poses, but it is about finding the peace and the harmony in which we can enjoy the later years of our lives. Her use of the 3Rs in improving the range of motions is very helpful for those of us with lots of body aches and pains from years of abusing our body.
Strongly recommended for the newbies in yoga.
A yoga reader from Cincinnati
Rating: 5 / 5