Ntathu Allen - Yoga For Beginners: A Simple Guide to the Best Yoga Styles and Exercises for Relaxation, Stretching, and Good Health

Yoga for Beginners

A Simple Guide to the Best Yoga Styles and Exercises for Relaxation, Stretching, and Good Health

Ntathu Allen

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Some material in this book may have previously existed as blog posts or articles written by the author.

The aim of this book is to provide general information only and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical advice of your doctor or any other healthcare professional. The information is intended to help you choose the right style of yoga class for you. It is based on my personal and professional experience of studying and teaching yoga.

This book makes no guarantees of success or implied promises. The publisher and author are not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a reader based on the contents of this book. Always consult your doctor before starting the exercises in this book or if you are concerned about your health in any way.

Remember, as you practice the yoga and meditation exercises in this book, breathe in and out gently through your nose. Keep your awareness on your breathing, allow the movement to be gentle and loving, and stay attentive to what is happening inside your body. Thank you.

This book is a treasure trove full of wisdom for all women. Immediately after I started reading, I felt inspired to start the practices Ntathu so easily introduces us to. The guidelines are easy to follow, and I instantly felt calm and relaxed with her easy-to-follow instructions.

Forget Yoga mats and Yoga classes and all the effort it takes to get out the door and to classes. At last, heres a workable book for the masses that brings yoga to your desk and to your home in a language and showing exercises, we can all understand.

In our time-poor, demanding work schedule and life culture, this book is a diamond. Using accessible language, Ntathu skillfully transforms the riches of yoga and transforms it into lay activities even a beginner can practice at work or at home.

I love the easy-to-follow chapters and bite-size yoga exercises, which have clearly been written by a seasoned/expert yoga practitioner who understands the plight of the working woman who doesnt have the time or even the will to attend the weekly yoga classes.

This is one book every womanand manshould have a copy of. I plan to send copies to all my coaching clients as Christmas gifts. At last, we have an e-book that touches the part other books dont reach!

-Jackee Holder

Management and Leadership Coach, Author, and Speaker

www.jackeeholder.com

Are you tired of being tired and grumpy, running on empty, giving everything to everyone at work and at home, and having nothing left for you?

Do you want to feel fitter, healthier, worry less, and have more energy, so you can have more fun and enjoy life?

Maybe you feel frazzled, frustrated, and fed-up at work yet suffer in silence.

Did you know that stress is recognized as the number one killer today? 62% of Americans are stressed about work, and one out of four working women admit to having taken a mental-health day because of work-related pressures.

If you feel as if your life is spinning out of control and no matter what you do, everything still weighs you down, then this book is for you.

Whether you are a stressed-out professional tired of living life in the fast-worry lane, or a busy parent whos exhausted from getting your children ready for school then dashing off to work, then take heart. Yoga for Beginners: A Simple Guide to the Best Yoga Styles and Exercises for Relaxation, Stretching, and Good Healthoffers you inspiration, relaxation tips, and exercises to put your life back into balance.

All the yoga exercises, breathing exercises and meditation techniques can be safely done at home or at work. They are practices which I use and share with my yoga students.

This practical guide includes information on the dangers of stress and the benefits of yoga to enable you to feel better; easyto-follow yoga exercises you can do at your work-station to de-stress; simple, deep-breathing exercises and meditation techniques to calm and revitalise your body; so you can quickly switch off from work mode and enjoy a peaceful evening at home.

As a yoga teacher, I am often asked by my students what they can do to regain that post-yogic glow, especially at work when the pressure is on. At the end of their yoga lesson, students always sigh and state, If only I could feel this good at work.

Thats why I wrote this book.

My students needed take-away yoga to do at work and at home.

Mary, a fifty-eight-year-old accountant and a complete beginner at yoga says, I have never felt so relaxed and free of pain. And after her first lesson, Cynthia, a yoga student with mental health issues, said, My body feels really relaxed and stretched; I found the class to be more useful than I thought it would be.

If you would like to experience calm, feel relaxed, and become pain free, then this book is for you.

So, stop beating up on yourself. Sit back, take a deep breath, lower your shoulders, and enjoy easy living the yogic way.

Does your life feel like a juggling act?

Do you feel torn between caring for your family and giving your full attention to your work?

Have you taken work home to complete or left work early to see your son perform in his school play and then felt guilty for doing either one of these things?

In this chapter, you will discover the frightening effects stress has on your life. You will find out what you can do to protect your body from physically breaking down and what you must do to stop your mind from running on overdrive with all the strain placed on you.

Would you like to be calmer and more focused at work? To have energy to get through your day without crashing out in the afternoon and feeling drained when you leave work?

To feel healthier, happier and more at peace?

Can you imagine how happier you will feel if you could improve your health, have energy to walk up the stairs without puffing and not worry whether you are able to bend down and pick things up from the floor?

These are just some of the benefits you will discover as you explore the vast potential of yoga to release tension, stress and anxiety.

How do you manage when your boss is asking questions about the overdue report and when you get home, your daughter reminds you, You promised, Mum, to help her bake cakes for the school Sports Day? Do you bake the cakes and stay up late to finish your report then collapse into bed? Maybe you moan at your partner for not pulling his weight around the house.

Whilst doing all of this, where do you find time for you? You might desire to live a simpler life, to work fewer hours, or even change jobs and retrain to follow your childhood dreams. However, with the increased cost of living, higher medical bills, and the real threat of getting laid off, you fear taking time off.