Useful both as a textbook and as a reference Anatomy of Hatha Yoga is a book that all serious yoga teachers and practitioners will want on their shelves. Special emphasis has been placed on the musculoskeletal, nervous, respiratory, and cardio-vascular systems – the musculoskeletal system because that is where all our actions are expressed, the nervous system because that is the residence of all the managerial functions of the musculoskeletal system, the ...
As the West has slowly opened in the past decades to Eastern, experientially-based fields like acupuncture - as part of a greater acceptance of alternative medicine in general - yoga has begun to stake its claim. A study by Dr. Dean Ornish, a California-based cardiologist who shared experiences with Sri Stachidananda and whose work was published in 1990 in the prestigious British journal Lancet, showed that a program that combines hatha yoga with dietary ...