Weight Resistance Yoga

Weight Resistance Yoga

Practicing Emodied Spirituality

Applying the wisdom of hatha yoga to weight-lifting exercises, WEIGHT RESISTANCE YOGA reveals how to transform a strength-training session into a mindful, calm and meditative yoga practice.



Through 26 fully illustrated weight-resistance exercises using machines, free weights and the body itself - along with an emphasis on coordinated rhythmic breathing, stability, stillness and full absorption in the body's movements against resistance - fitness trainer ,Max Popov, explains how to access the tranquillity that dwells within each of us while safely, effectively and efficiently strengthening your neck, shoulders, arms, torso, hips, knees and ankles. To support the meditative state of this practice, the author includes 20 themed meditations on the embodied experience of the exercises.



The perfect complement to yoga flexibility practice, weight-resistance yoga allows you to fully inhabit your body, empty your mind of everyday preoccupations and fill your soul with comprehensions of deeper realities, providing strength, calm and spiritual illumination through your physical fitness work. Explains how to induce a calm, meditative state through the movements, breathing and focus of strength-training exercises.



Contains illustrated instructions for 26 exercises to safely strengthen the neck, shoulders, arms, hips, knees, ankles and torso Offers themed meditations on the embodied experience of the exercises to facilitate a mindful state during your session The perfect complement to a yoga flexibility practice.



Max Popov is a fitness trainer and scholar of modern yoga. He developed weight resistance yoga in the late 1980s by applying the teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar to the strength-training teachings of famed 1920s Indian bodybuilder K. V. Iyer. He lives in New York.