Sources listed in this section are categorized by their format. Each category contains different levels of sources to guide the user practice yoga or help the user understand more about yoga practice or therapy.
It should be noted that each individual’s body and learning style is different. Should the users find any of the sources not appropriate for them, they are encouraged to try other materials available in UNC libraries.
Part I Books | Part II E-books | Part III DVD &CD | Part IV Popular Magazines
The audience of this section can be anyone who now practices yoga or would like to begin. Books 3 and 4 can also be great sources for yoga teachers, body workers, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals/students.
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1. Cappy, Peggy, et al. Yoga for all of Us: A Modified Series of Traditional Poses for any Age and Ability. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006.
What's inside: answers to a lot of frequent questions by beginners; detailed instructions and illustrations of a number of basic gentle yoga stretches and poses
Location and call number: Health Sciences Library 3rd floor stacks, QT 255 C249y 2006
Audience: general readers; great for beginners
2. Moyer, Donald. Yoga: Awakening the Inner Body. Berkeley, Calif.: Rodmell Press, 2006.
What's inside: definition of the inner body and the various stages of awakening; detailed instructions on the practice of two important yoga postures, Salamba Sarvangasana (shoulderstand) and Salamba Sirsasana (headstand); detailed instructions on a variety of poses that work on different part of the upper body
Location and call number: Undergraduate Library 2nd floor stacks, RA781.7 .M69 2006
Audience: general readers; can be challenging for beginners
3. Kraftsow, Gary, and Diane McKenzie. Yoga for Wellness: Healing with the Timeless Teachings of Viniyoga. New York: Penguin Compass, 1999.
What's inside: Focusing on yoga as a means to obtain physical and emotional health;
general introduction of yoga; the principles behind yogic traditions; detailed yoga treatment plans for a number of diseases; case studies
Location and call number Health Sciences Library 3rd floor stacks, WB 890 K89y 1999
Audience: from general readers to health care professionals/students
4. McCall, Timothy B. Yoga as Medicine : The Yogic Prescription for Health & Healing : T Yoga Journal Book. New York: Bantam Books, 2007.
What's inside: author is a western-trained doctor and a yogi; overview of yoga as medicine; general information on practicing yoga; in-depth coverage of yoga therapy in a range of diseases in separate chapters; each chapter begins with a disease overview followed by a detailed explanation of “how yoga fits in” and a literature review on the scientific evidence of yoga’s effects on this disease; finally, a well-illustrated yoga practice plan is provided
Location and call number: Health Sciences Library 3rd floor stacks, WB 890 M478y 2007
Audience: general readers to health care professionals/students; some contents can be too technical for general readers, but the practicing instructions are easy to follow