Jilly Shipway - 8 July

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Yoga Through the Year: A Seasonal Approach to Your Practice 2019 by Jilly Shipway.

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First e-book edition 2019

E-book ISBN: 9780738757209

Cover design by Shannon McKuhen

Interior illustrations by Llewellyn Art Department, based on art by Jilly Shipway

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shipway, Jilly, author.

Title: Yoga through the year : a seasonal approach to your practice / Jilly

Shipway.

Description: First Edition. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., 2019. |

Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019010088 (print) | LCCN 2019014588 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738757209 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738756912 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Yoga. | SeasonsMiscellanea.

Classification: LCC B132.Y6 (ebook) | LCC B132.Y6 S52135 2019 (print) | DDC

294.5/436dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019010088

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Disclaimer

Before beginning any new exercise program, it is recommended that you seek medical advice from your healthcare provider. You have full responsibility for your safety and should know your limits. Before practicing asana poses as described in this book, be sure that you are well informed of proper practice and do not take risks beyond your experience and comfort levels. The publisher and the author assume no liability for any injuries caused to the reader that may result from the readers use of the content contained herein and recommend common sense when contemplating the practices described in the work.

Contents

List of

Introduction:

Chapter One:

Chapter Two:

Chapter Three:

Chapter Four:

Chapter Five:

Chapter Six:

Chapter Seven:

Chapter Eight:

Chapter Nine:

Conclusion:

Exercises

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

: Winter Solstice Salute to the Sun

Chapter Nine

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the earth, the moon, and the sun for giving us the rhythms and the seasons of our lives. You are at the heart of this Seasonal Yoga book.

Thank you to yoga for picking me up when I was a confused, hapless, and ever-hopeful teenager. Thank you for your beauty and diversity and for all the interesting places that you have taken me. Thank you for helping me realize that peace is more than a possibility.

To Glennie Kindred and Ruth Barrett, thank you for all the work that you have both done on the Wheel of the Year, which has given me such a deep well to draw upon.

To Judith Lasater and Donna Farhi, thank you for showing me how to bring my life into yoga and yoga into my life.

Thank you to all the amazing yoga writers, teachers, and practitioners who have helped me expand my definition of what yoga is and what it could be.

I am extremely grateful to Angela Wix, Acquisitions Editor at Llewellyn Publications. I consider Angela to be the midwife to this book! Angela and her team have really helped me pull this book into shape, and I really appreciate all the guidance, help, and support that I have been given by them. Especial thanks to Lauryn Heineman, Lynne Menturweck, Shannon McKuhen, Kat Sanborn, Anna Levine, and Molly McGinnis.

Thank you to all the thousands of peoples who have visited my Seasonal Yoga website, especially those who have contacted me to share their enthusiasm for a seasonal approach to yoga.

I feel very fortunate through my teaching to be able to share my love of yoga, and so a huge thank you to all my students, some of whom have been with me on the path over many years and have taught me so much. Thank you also to local yoga teachers and friends for their friendship and support.

I am very grateful to my group of six readers, who read through my early attempts at chapters for this book and gave me such astute feedback. I really value the expertise, friendship, and support that you have given me, on what at times has been a rocky road. So, thank you to Judy Brenan, Claire Holmes, Lottie Hosie, Linda Poole, Alison Jones, and Ulrike Schade.

Thank you to Rosie Bernard, my niece, for her writerly support and enthusiasm.