April 30th, 2010 Awakening the Spine: The Stress-Free New Yoga that Works with the Body to Restore Health, Vitality and Energy
- ISBN13: 9780062507921
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Product Description
A revolutionary new method of yoga for overall fitness that teaches “if it hurts, it’s wrong’”–from a vibrant 83-year-old master.
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Awakening the Spine: The Stress-Free New Yoga that Works with the Body to Restore Health, Vitality and Energy
$23.99
April 30th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
This book offers nothing in the way of practical information. It may be inspirational to some, but it should not be advertised as a yoga book if it hardly deals with the subject. A more appropriate title you ask? A Book of Boring Pictures And Useless Sayings or How to Waste $25.
Rating: 1 / 5
April 30th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Then buy this book. Looking for information on yoga? Buy a book that has photos of postures with detailed instructions. This book is basically an art book with some yogic themes.
Rating: 1 / 5
April 30th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Ms. Scaravelli sure is flexible. She’s over ninety now, and going strong. One gathers that she is still teaching yoga. She may be doing that at her luxurious Italian castle, but she is certainly not doing so in this book.
It’s disappointing, really. This woman has obviously led a fascinating life that brought her into contact with some of the central characters of eastern thought in this century, and it transformed her life. But all we get in this book are a scattershot of aphorisms and eastern style anecdotes. These mini-essays, little more than fast food philosophy, are paired to good effect with some cleverly chosen images. But it doesn’t make the whole package worthwhile.
Moreover, if you buy the book as I did, based on the pretty cover (oh when will I learn?) and the encouraging title, you will be particularly disappointed to find that Ms. Scaravelli’s practical advice for the yoga practitioner is almost totally worthless. In the first place it assumes that the reader has been doing yoga for some time: it is not a program of yoga, but rather a further collection of essaylets about some of her favorite asanas. Interesting if you are already comfortable with yoga. It might change your perspective on the practice or purpose of some of the positions. It might add a previously unconsidered dimension to the union of breath and shape. But it is not an instructional book.
Ms. Scaravelli admits as much in a few places throughout the text, claiming that to learn yoga one must have a teacher. Since it is useless as an instructional book and rather light on substance for the advanced reader, there are few people who will really find this book worth the money.
Rating: 2 / 5
April 30th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
I was hoping for more yoga philosophy or atleast technique but this is mostly a coffee table book. Still inspiring and pretty!
Rating: 3 / 5
April 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
I bought this book thinking it instructional in nature; it’s actually a new-age sort of inspirational book.
I expected an in-depth review of postures that might strengthen my computer-messed-up back; what I got was a bunch of photos of flowers and people doing several postures. What I expected was something like Iyengar’s ‘Light on Yoga’, with maybe a couple more in-depth reviews of programs that would do something for my back. The synopsis is misleading, to put it mildly.
Rating: 1 / 5