Beth Shaw's Yogafit Author: Beth Shsw | Language: English | ISBN:
B0026IUOWS | Format: EPUB
Beth Shaw's Yogafit Description
Beth Shaw's YogaFit® Workout takes you step by step through the popular YogaFit® Classic routine, from breathing and warm-up to heat-building exercises, deep stretches, cool-down, and relaxation. YogaFit® students demonstrate how poses can be modified to meet the needs of beginning and advanced students and how props such as blocks can be used to strengthen and relax tight muscle groups.
During the challenging 43-minute video, you'll have the opportunity to try a yoga/fitness routine like you've never experienced before—a routine of three sections or mountains for you to climb. This will be followed by the "essentials" of the YogaFit® program. In other words, you'll learn the right way to perform the six basic yoga poses required. The "essentials" have been placed at the end of the video so you don't always have to fast forward to get to the routine. You can watch the "essentials" section once, and then go back to it only when needed for a refresher. For your convenience, a handy timecard is included with the video so you know exactly where to find what you're looking for!
"I encourage anyone striving to reach a higher level of fitness to give YogaFit® a try," says Shaw. "Before beginning the program, however, it should be understood that the word workout is used in its literal sense. YogaFit makes you sweat—profusely at times. But when you're finished, you'll know you've done something good for your body...and you'll always want to come back for more."
- File Size: 6712 KB
- Print Length: 288 pages
- Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 2 edition (December 29, 2008)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0026IUOWS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,264 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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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