Yoga for Wimps: Poses for the Flexibly Impaired

By Miriam Austin

Crave yoga's benefits--but feel afraid to look "weird?" Think yoga requires you to look like a pretzel? Now there's a friendly, full-color, hand-holding, one-step-at-a-time, few-minutes-a-day way to get started. It meets you right where you are, with three different approaches to fit your needs. Instant Yoga gets you going immediately with 15 practice sessions for any time of the day, even when there's only a few minutes to spare. Run through a sequence and the workout's over FixIts offer solutions to specific problems, such as a sore neck, back pain, those aching feet, or stress. In the Glossary, the author demonstrates every pose correctly, with instructions for improving technique. The changes you experience will amaze and delight you so much you'll never want to wimp out on your workout The author lives in Lexington, VA. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806943394
• ISBN13: 9780806943398
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Finally, Yoga for real people.

I hate those pretzel things that I think they use CGI to make. Worse is learning some ancient philosophy when all you want to do is yoga. This book is a great starting (and finishing) point. I am not sure I like to use chairs and ties. The next book should use beds. However, you work with what you have. This oversized book has plenty of straightforward pictures, the next best thing to video. For people who are not especially oriented, that is a description of what you are looking at. My question is: what is in the cup of the guy on the cover? All kidding aside, this can get addictive. So be prepared to cut out some time in your day.

these old bones are gettin limber

I have been unable to touch my toes all of my life, "Yoga For Wimps." was recommended by a publication that I subscribe to. I have since been rewarded with a few aches,that have since led to my gaining flexibility where I thought there was not ever going to be any. This book has empowered me to work a lot harder at gaining something I never possessed to begin with, that being flexibility. As a 63 year old with Arthritis in my neck and spine Ms. Austin has given me insight into just how a few simple yet taxing exercises can be a very uplifting and invigorating. experience. If you possess the desire to feel better and are not afraid of a little challenge then this book will definitely give you the wherewithall to persevere your own personal goals,and I have just been getting started. IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!

at last, a yoga book for me

I've been away from yoga for 5 years, but this is the book that brought me back. It's yoga for the rest of us, yoga that doesn't make you feel entirely inadequate, yoga that my middle-aged joints say yes to. And the pictures are a treat. Real believable people showing clearly how it's done.

Finally, an accessible Yoga book!

Finally, a yoga book for the rest of us. I have owned at least 15 yoga books in my now long life, and this is the first that has inspired me to practice. The poses really produce results. It is also the most handsomely designed book of its kind that I have seen.

yoga for wimps

Excellent from cover to cover. Yoga for Wimps is presented in a straight forward manner suitable for the novice or the more flexible. Either way, one is as challenged as they choose. Easily read with clean and clear photography.Has a good beat and is easy to dance to!