Beth Shaw's Yogafit - 2nd Edition Author: Visit Amazon's Beth Shaw Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0736075364 | Format: EPUB
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""Beth Shaw's YogaFit" represents the fusion of the ancient practice of yoga with cutting-edge exercise physiology. It is a program that will benefit everyone regardless of their athletic skill level." Barry Sears, PhDAuthor of The Zone
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"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Beth Shaw's YogaFit. The style is very user friendly, approachable, and contemporary, allowing the reader to engage with the text. The advice and step-by-step instructions were easy to follow."
Halima Malik
Yoga Magazine
"Beth Shaw's YogaFit offers an effective exercise plan, creating a unique fusion of yoga moves with toning, firming, and strengthening exercises. People will love this book."
Carol Ann Weber
Contributing Editor, FitnessRx Magazine
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- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Human Kinetics; 2 edition (December 23, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0736075364
- ISBN-13: 978-0736075367
- Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
As someone who has been practicing yoga for years and teaching for almost two years, I can sympathize with a lot of the issues that Shaw surfaces in her book. In a nutshell, many people who are curious about yoga and want to take advantage of its physical benefits are either intimidated or turned off by what they perceive to be the rest of the "yoga lifestyle" and feel as if Yoga with a capital Y is an all-or-nothing proposition. To the extent that Shaw's book opens the door for those people, I applaud her. I also find her statement that she feels she has a mission to contribute to society by sharing yoga admirable.
However, I feel like she unnecessarily insults "traditional yoga" several times in the course of the book. For instance, she writes in her preface, "What separates YogaFit from other forms of yoga is that YogaFit speaks directly and without pretensiousness to everyone, but especially to the needs of amateur and professional athletes." And later in the same paragraph, "...YogaFit holds the answers to all of these [sports-training] problems without boring you to death." Reading these words, I can't help but get the impression that Shaw is convinced that she is the only one who can deliver the goods to athletes and fitness enthusiasts; Baron Baptiste will be interested to hear that.
One of the other notable aspects of the book is that Shaw can't seem to decide whether YogaFit is a form of yoga or something else altogether. She refers to it as an accessible, demystified form of yoga, then later has a full page chart contrasting the difference between YogaFit and yoga.
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