The Book - Stretch with Yoga: 240 pages + tear-out flash cards

The Video - Stretch with Yoga: DVD 120 min

Program Description:

Stretching exercises will help you feel more energetic, more alive and more aware.

The exercises taught in this eight week book/video course will help prepare and strengthen your body for everyday physical activities, whether you'll be sitting in front of a computer, climbing stairs or shovelling snow. The exercises help release daily tensions and will help counter the effects of poor posture and will expand your range of movement over time through regular practice.

The exercises taught in this eight week course will help prepare and strengthen your body for everyday physical activities, whether you'll be sitting in front of a computer, climbing stairs or shovelling snow. The exercises help release daily tensions and will help counter the effects of poor posture and will expand your range of movement over time through regular practice.

This course makes the techniques accessible to all - young or old - because you'll learn how to adapt the exercises to your own physical condition. While you are never pushed or encouraged to go beyond your limits, neither are you pampered.

This course is an integrated learning system consisting of:

• The video and television programs which show the movements
• The workbook which lays out each session in pictures and in words
• Flash Cards, included in the book, which help lay out your daily practice

The Book STRETCH ALIVE with Yoga

The workbook has detailed information about each of the exercises, providing detailed information about how to integrate stretching exercises into your daily life as well as descriptions and drawings of how to perform each of the exercises. Unique to this course is a set of Flash cards that allow you to conveniently review each component of an exercise series as you do them.

The Video STRETCH ALIVE with Yoga

Lisa teaches all the fundamentals of Hatha yoga to the beginner, showing in detail how to perform exercises, drawing your attention to good form and problems you might have. She talks about integrating the exercises into your daily life, and how to use everyday objects such as furniture and architectural features to help stretch effectively.

About the Authors

Lisa Schwartz is an advanced yoga practitioner who has studied and taught for over twenty-five years, many of them in association with two of the world's greatest contemporary figures in Yoga: B.KS. Iyengar in India and Vanda Scaravelli in Europe.

Like many, Lisa began her study with books and was inspired to take up serious practice after reading Iyengar's modern classic "Light on Yoga" in the early 1970's, which eventually drew her to study with him in person. More recently, Lisa has worked with Vanda Scarvelli, well known in Europe as a teacher and author of "Awakening the Spine". Lisa has adapted the teachings of Iyengar and Scaravelli to suit the needs of North American students.

Keith Dalton is an award winning writer and television director. This book is his second as co-author on issues related to well being. He has been a student of Yoga in the past, but it was while working with Lisa Schwartz on the television series "Stretch Alive" that he was introduced to the specifics of practice in detail. He also brings a broad range of skills, related interests and an understanding developed through years of applying various approaches to bodywork both professionally and personally.