Introduction to the Website:
Sam has been teaching yoga as his full-time profession for nearly 35 years and has studied and taught throughout North America and in Europe and India. He's been on an amazing journey and it has led him to think about and practice yoga in a unique and different way than the vast majority of both his younger and contemporary colleagues. It's been ten years since his last book was published and his students have asked him to publish his current work.
During his many years of practicing and teaching yoga, life has presented Sam with a number of defining opportunities and challenges, each of which has allowed him to look at yoga differently than the way he had been taught; and each of these defining opportunities and challenges inspired him to write a new book. Sam writes:
After 18 years of practice and study, I wrote my first book, ExTension Yoga (Simon & Schuster), partly due to my experiences of taking classes in India, and partly because so many people were getting hurt trying to do yoga from books. ExTension Yoga shows how any given yoga exercise (asana) can be safely practiced by normally healthy people regardless of their flexibility, strength, endurance, or age. Using abundant photographs and text, I explain how normally flexible people, tight people, and very flexible people, regardless of age, can successfully practice yoga while honoring their individual capacity to do exercise. Click here to enter the free-access area for ExTension Yoga.
I wrote my second book, Recovery Yoga (Random House) partly from my experience as a yoga teacher working with chronically injured and ill students; and from my own personal experience with chronic illness and injury. The book explains why and shows how injured, chronically ill, and aging people must adapt yoga exercises so they can promote healing; while at the same time, avoid compromising or exacerbating their condition. Click here to enter the free-access area for Recovery Yoga.
My latest book, The Mechanics of Yoga (which is part of this website) incorporates aspects from both of my previous books; and yet, it goes well beyond both of them to explain the mechanics of how and why yoga works. Using science and logic, you learn why and how to adapt yoga to your own unique requirements, rather than the more conventional way of trying to do yoga exercises the way a book shows, or the way a yoga teacher tells you, or even how you think a yoga pose (asana) should be done.
It doesn't matter what style of yoga you practice...
It doesn't matter if you are healthy, ill, or injured...
It doesn't even matter how old you are...
The Mechanics of Yoga explains how you can safely enhance your
flexibility, strength, and endurance, while at the very same time,
reduce your risk of yoga (and other exercise) related injuries.
The Mechanics of Yoga, incorporates elements from my first two books, and ties them together in a way that directly affects you, no matter the style of yoga you practice; no matter how flexible or tight you are; no matter if you are young and healthy, or if you are ill, injured or aging.
The Mechanics of Yoga is fully accessible on this website for a one-time $9 membership fee. Once you are a member, you will have full unlimited access to The Mechanics of Yoga and can print any chapter you wish. Also included in your subscription fee is a user forum where you can interact directly with me and other readers. You also have access to videos where I demonstrate some of the unique remedial exercises I've developed through the years.
We invite you to click here to enter the free-access area for The Mechanics of Yoga.
The free sections of the website contain access to excerpts from all three of my books, how to purchase them, and how to study with me.
This yoga-instructional website is entirely user supported and unlike other
major yoga websites, we do not rely upon, nor do we allow, advertising of any kind.
Contributions to maintain this website are always appreciated.
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