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Yoga Through the Year: A Seasonal Approach to Your Practice by Jilly Shipway

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3.0

Yoga through the Year raises interesting seasonal based questions for one to ask about one’s yoga practice. The goal being to ground your practice in each season giving it a timeliness. Then, particular positions are given to use for that particular season. For example, Winter to Spring included:

Blossoming Hands
Flower Arms
Albatross Sequence
Warrior 2
Wide-Leg Standing Forward Bend Pose
Lunge Pose
Downward-Facing Dog
Child’s Pose
Bridge Pose
Knees to Chest Pose
Wide-Leg stretch
Blossoming Hands
There is a great deal of description included and the sequencing and number of repetitions. The book is encouraging the beginnings of a home yoga practice.

I found the questions it raised interesting, I personally have difficulty meditating and think it would be helpful to have questions to perhaps use as guides. I did find that the fact that the text had no pictures to be a huge problem. I am in no way a very experienced practitioner and would like to see pictures, even if only line drawings, of the poses I am attempting, rather than just written descriptions. I would think that most beginning practitioners would expect illustrations of some kind in a guide. To be published 8th of July 2019 by Llewellyn Publications.

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