Emma Mitchell (1)

> L'ENERGIE par le YOGA, 34 exercices toniques Se sentir bien dans son corps, Raviver ses flux d'énergies, par Alistair Livingstone - Ed. Solar. — L'énergie par le yoga vous conduit pas à pas, en photos et en couleurs, vers l'harmonie, la santé et le bien-être grâce à des exercices faciles, destinés à assouplir et tonifier vos muscles tout en vous procurant détente et apaisement de l'esprit.
Des postures traditionnelles de yoga ont été adaptées afin de devenir accessibles aux débutants. Les explications détaillées sont toutes accompagnées de l'illustration du déroulement et de la progression des mouvements.
Les enchaînements proposés sont simples, mais efficaces, vous permettant d'améliorer votre tonus général, de vous muscler et de stimuler votre énergie tout au long de la journée, que vous soyez au travail ou chez vous. En outre, à chaque exercice s'ajoutent de précieuses informations sur les parties du corps sollicitées.
—Infos Yoga, (33), Eté 2001, (p. 39)… (mere)

This book offers a peek into the mind of a woman who, on the outside, looks to have everything she needs to be happy; yet she suffers from a debilitating depression that peaks in the darker months. She uses her connection to nature as a lifeline. It is not prescriptive nor does the author attempt to minimize the importance of medical support for mental health. Instead, it is an invitation to reconnect with nature as sympathetic medicine for body and mind. If nothing else, her sketches and drawings may inspire you to observe the way the natural world cycles through the seasons.… (mere)

Energy Exercises offers a fully illustrated, step-by-step path to harmony, health, and well-being, through a wealth of easy routines that equip us to release the untapped reserves of natural vitality which flow through our bodies.

The human body is designed for movement-something discouraged by many aspects of Western life. Correctly chosen exercise benefits not only the body, but also the mind and emotions. People who do exercise regularly recognize its value in enhancing mood, releasing stress, and clearing the mind. Exercising with consciousness of the energies involved can be doubly rewarding-using energy to create more energy.

Drawing upon Eastern posture and breathing disciplines such as Hatha Yoga and Qigong, as well as movement-based techniques for suppleness and fitness such as T'ai Chi, Energy Exercises offers easy-to-follow routines, using step-by-step instruction and specially commissioned photographs, complemented by helpful profiles to exactly what the energy benefits are at any particular time.

Harmonizing the wisdom of East and West, Energy Exercises offers the essence of vitality in a beautiful book to instruct and inspire.

Emma Mitchell is a qualified aromatherapist and reflexologist who opened her own clinic in England in the mid-1990s. Her interest in health and complementary medicine began with her successful battle against Hodgkin's Diesease, a cancer of he immune sysem. She has also studied kinesiology, polarity therapy, nutrition, homeopath, massage and iridology at the Raworth Centre in England.

Energy Exercises

-presents more than 50 ways to tune the body's energy systems and put the zest back into living-an instant, illustrated, practical companion to improved health and vitality.

-includes 22 targeted, step-by-step exercises, each offering its own energy benefits-from a range of traditions including Hatha Yoga, T'ai Chi, and Qigoing.

-takes a holistic approach, presenting exercises that benefits not only the body but also the mind and emotions-through the right exercises we enhance mood, release stress, and find mental clarity.

-shows how breathing routines and meditation can be combined with healthy exercise to release hidden energy reserves.

-gives expert step-by-step advice on how to energize your day-and in the process make yourself supple and fit.

-describes the practical, everyday benefits of easy routines based on Eastern concepts of energy-Qi (Chinese) and Prana (Indian).

Note: Picked up this book in Florida at the Goodwill Bookstore (2010).

Contents

Introduction
1 Energy balance
Exercise: Visualizing energy
Fight or flight
Exercise: The eyebrow squeeze
Exercise: The wood chopper
Chinese wisdom
Rivers of energy
Exercise: Achieving and maintaining balance
Exercise: Unblocking the meridians
Wheels of energy
The path of youga
Exercise: Focus and brath in the half lotus
2 Flow better, feel better
Qigong
Exercise: Qigong basic posture
Exercise: Srengthening the energy flow
Exercise: Yoga breathing
Exercise: Vertical yoga stretch
Exercise: The doj
3 Flexibility and motion
Exercise: The wasit swing
Exercise: Pushing and pulling
Exercise: Movement to strengthen the legs
Exercise: The traingle
Exercise: The shoulder stand
Exercise: The fish
Exercise: Egyptian figures of eight
Exercise: Egyptian hip ddrops
4 Energize your day
Exercise: The fivefinger fix
Exercise: The cross crawl
Exercise: Brain coordination
Exercise: Vital sitting
Exercise: Sensing the energy
Energy first-aid
Index
Acknowledgments… (mere)