Binding: Hardcover Brand: Sounds True Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7046 EAN: 9781591792819 Feature: Finally, a tool to help yoga teachers and students pronounce asana names and yoga terms correctly! Format: Illustrated ISBN: 1591792819 Label: Sounds True, Incorporated Languages: Array Manufacturer: Sounds True, Incorporated Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 139 Publication Date: 2005-10-01 Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated Studio: Sounds True, Incorporated
Product Features:
• Finally, a tool to help yoga teachers and students pronounce asana names and yoga terms correctly! • The Language of Yoga is the definitive A-Y of yoga specific words. (There is no Z in Sanskrit) • Useful for yoga teachers and students
This interactive book/cd set includes more than 200 asanas with illustrated yoga postures and 300 Sanskrit definitions. Nicolai Bachman teaches you how to read and pronounce these sacred sounds with precision, and guides you through seven yoga chants with exact rhythm, tone, and pronunciation. This is an indispensable reference guide for any serious student of yoga.
Customer Reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Fascinating Comment: I am still new to yoga but wanted to learn about the traditional names of poses when I mentioned a pose to a friend in English and they mentioned the Sanskrit name.
Right now I am still learning the names and just trying to be able to say them, and I am finding the process interesting and am beginning to associte some of the sanskrit names with asanas. Customer Rating: Summary: The Language of Yoga: Complete A to Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants Comment: A great way to learn and maybe more importantly, hear the yoga Sanskrit terms the correct way. The CDs and book are both organized in a way that makes it easy to navigate and pick out what pertains to you specifically. Customer Rating: Summary: Yoga study must Comment: I have found this book very useful, informative and easy to use. I have found it a great aid in my yoga studies. Customer Rating: Summary: I loved this book Comment: Easy to read, easy to understand. I couldn't put this book down.
If you have an interest in yoga and would like to know and understand the Asana Names.... you should get this.
I am not a yoga teacher, but I would also like to recomend this to anybody who does teach yoga. If for no other reason so you can say the worrds correctly and aslo be able to answer questions from students (like myself) who wish to know the what and why of asanas and chants. Customer Rating: Summary: Truly a "must" for non-Indian yoga teachers Comment: I can't believe I have never reviewed this before! I've been a yoga teacher for - oh yikes, way too long to admit to but until I listened to the CDs that come with this book, I had been pronouncing things incorrectly. I guess my teachers learned the wrong pronounciation from others who didn't know...and on it goes. But my students know the difference now; hopefully, they will pass it on as some of them become teachers.
I've also used the book for tattoos. Just enlarge the writing for the artist...perfect.
Namaste