Key Muscles of Yoga: Your Guide to Functional Anatomy in Yoga (Scientific Keys): 1

This book is.. I can't even put words down!I've recently started my journey towards Yoga Teacher Training (getting popular recommended reads on the courses) and this book is amazing for teaching me about the body and how the muscles function and the stretches that get to various muscle areas, as well as showing you the skeletal and muscled body do you can see what the testis talking about too.I've just started reading this book and my partner is also looking at it and trying out the poses in the illustrations and learning along with me. I'm sure this book will educate me in how to practice yoga safely as well as encouraging muscle care.I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn yoga and how it helps the body.

I'm getting into the fitness profession and find this book absolutely perfect for learning functional anatomy. It is way more interesting and informative than most books I have read on this subject and the link with yoga makes it more accessible to me. The illustrations are key to the strength of this book, isolating the muscles being discussed and showing them in a yoga pose rather than a plain standing pose. Ray adds a lot of interesting points throughout the book that make memorising each muscle far easier. Instead of the lists of action, insertion and origin for each muscle, the book shows you or has some explanatory remark about what's going on. The language used in the fitness business is explained and used clearly throughout the book. I can't fault it. It's a pleasure to read, which makes it stand out from more textbook-like books.

This Guide provides a unique insight and illustration of the effects Yoga has on the muscularskeletal parts of the body. Am becoming quite offay with medical terms and have acquired a greater appreciation of the power and long-term effect of this ancient tradition. Practising Yoga is not just about your dapper sportswear or 'how low can you go' and this Guide references to the fact there is a right and a wrong way to practise, especially when working alone. Would be even more assured if I knew any seriously minded, potential Yoga instructor used this Guide for reference as it provides another dimension to their expertise.Looking forward to purchasing the accompanying Guide within the second book of this series.

Wow, this book is a real eye-opener and really gets down into the details of what goes on when your body is in the various asanas. This has helped me a lot in personal practice and in my training. The book is a little on the pricey side but it is worth getting if you are serious about your practice and development. There is a second volume  Key Poses of Yoga: Your Guide to Functional Anatomy in Yoga: 2 (Scientific Keys)  but this one will have to wait a little longer due to the cost.

Very clear, excellent illustrations, detailed enough, without confusion for a beginner anatomy course. Good layout, easy to use most useful. The one tiny little disappointment was that on the first opening the apine separated from the pages. I had no time to return it as i had course deadlines to meet. Having said that the pages are firmly bound to eachother, theres just a gap in spine between cover and the babk of the pages.

Great book. I've found this book to be just what I need to be able to study the muscles used in yoga poses. Explained well with great diagrams. Well written. I'm using it to complete my yoga teaching training and its brilliant; just what I needed. Thank you.

A fantastic resource for a yoga teacher in training like me! Very well explained and the illustrations are far better than the one I have been provided with as part of my course! Buying volume 2 soon!

Excellent reference book for yoga practitioners 🧘🏻‍♀️

Excelente apoyo para cualquier maestro de yoga. Ayuda a entender mucho mejor las asanas y sus funciones anatómicas

Ouvrage clair et accessible à tous.Je le recommande à toutes les personnes qui cherchent à progresser sérieusement dans leur pratique du yoga, ainsi qu’à ceux qui souhaitent faire l’expérience des chaînes musculaires autrement qu’en étudiant un livre d’anatomie.

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"The Key Muscles of Yoga: Scientific Keys Volume I" by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ray Long MD FRCSC (Author) and Chris Macivor (Illustrator) covers medical-school-style anatomy of the human skeletal and muscular systems at very high levels of detail for the technically-oriented person. More importantly, with respect to yoga, it describes innervation of the muscles in various yoga poses and the relevant chakras illuminated. The book is superlatively written: highly organized; well indexed; fully illustrated; concise; and presented in the active voice. The language is medical-school vocabulary rather than the common vernacular (i.e. clavicle = collar bone; sternum = breast bone; scapula = shoulder blade; femur = thigh bone; patella = kneecap; and so on). This book could be a useful reference for any personal trainer (not just those focused on yoga) as well as for any technically-minded person interested in how the human body works.

This book is incredible!!! I decided that I want to do yoga teacher training in a year or two, and I wanted some books to help me start to prepare/expand on what I already know.A couple years ago, I had looked through "Yoga Anatomy," but it wasn't really what I had expected. I was searching around for other yoga anatomy-type books, and I saw the high reviews for this one. I purchased it, along with Volume 2, and WOW, I am SO impressed! I teach high school anatomy, so I have some anatomy background; this book helped me review what I know and helped build off that. For someone new to anatomy, I am guessing that this book is perfect as well--all of the information is so clear and well-explained. The pictures are awesome and really help you see the muscles and how they work--something that is very important during yoga (if you know where a muscle is and how it should be moving, it makes poses that much deeper).Volume 1 focuses on the muscles--their actions, insertions, origins; what they do as a prime mover, their antagonists, and synergists. It shows key poses that use the muscle, ways to really awaken the muscle, and limitations that the muscle causes if it is tight. There is a really nice introduction at the beginning of the book to all of the vocabulary terms, in case you don't know what they mean. Along the way in the book, there are short quizzes that you can use to test your new anatomy knowledge. At the end of the book is some general yoga information on breathing, bandhas, chakras, etc. It's a really nice introduction to everything!I'm excited to read Volume 2 next. The difference between the two books is that Volume 2 is the "Key Poses" of yoga, whereas Volume 1 is the "Key Muscles" of yoga. Just from flipping through Volume 2, I can tell that it'll be just as good as Volume 1!! These two books operate great as a set for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge for personal reasons, or learning because they plan to teach, or learning just because they are interested in anatomy.There are also four other books in the line--"Yoga Mat Companion"--focusing on groups of poses (inversions/backbends, vinyasa flow, etc.). I'm definitely buying those next!HIGHLY recommended!!!!