Yoga Sparks offers 108 quick, practical, and accessible yoga exercises that you can practice anytime, anywhere. In this book, you will learn how yoga in "bite-size" pieces can become a healthy habit that can relieve emotional stress, increase your physical strength and flexibility, and help you to lead a happier, healthier life.
Carol Krucoff, E-RYT, is a yoga therapist, fitness expert, and award-winning journalist. She creates individualized yoga programs for people with health challenges at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, where she also codirects the Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors teacher training. A frequent contributor to Yoga Journal, Krucoff served as founding editor of the health section of the Washington Post, where her syndicated column, Bodyworks, appeared for twelve years. She has written for numerous national publications, including the New York Times and Reader's Digest, and is author of the book Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain. Krucoff is creator of the home practice CD Healing Moves Yoga and cocreator of the DVD Relax into Yoga for Seniors. Certified as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise, she also has earned a second-degree black belt in karate and sits on the peer review board for the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. Krucoff has practiced yoga for more than thirty years.
"A valuable resource for new and experienced yoga practitioners
alike, Yoga Sparks can help light a fire under your lagging yoga
practice or provide a go-to tool to turn to throughout the
day."
--Baxter Bell, MD, Yoga Journal
"Carol Krucoff's Yoga Sparks are unpretentious poses, breathing
practices, meditations, and straightforward guiding principles that
are easily engaged, but which can initiate powerful fires of
inspiration within us. Simple yet powerful, these practices are
designed to uncover our inner wisdom and inspire wonder, awe,
delight, true purpose, and meaning into our lives. Weave Krucoff's
offering into your hands, and you, too, will feel sparks of
inspiration awakening in your life."
--Richard Miller, PhD, author of Yoga Nidra: A Meditative Practice
for Deep Relaxation and Healing, founder and president of the
Integrative Restoration Institute, clinical psychologist,
meditation teacher, and yoga scholar
"The secret to yoga's healing power is to practice every day, even
if briefly. That's easier said than done, of course, which is why
Yoga Sparks--with dozens of quick and easy practices--is so
valuable. Just a few of them, done regularly, could improve your
health and well-being."
--Timothy McCall, MD, medical editor for Yoga Journal and author of
Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing
"Yoga Sparks is the perfect book for anyone interested in a
practical way to incorporate yoga into his or her daily busy life.
Krucoff goes beyond the poses and really provides a guide to
experiencing all of the benefits that yoga has to offer for
improving health and well-being."
--Adam Perlman, MD, associate vice president for health and
wellness for the Duke University Health System and executive
director at Duke Integrative Medicine
"It is so easy to go from zero to sixty and stay in high gear until
you break down. Yoga Sparks generously offers a way for you to make
a U-turn: quickies that translate into quick ease of posture,
concentration, joy, and presence. Krucoff's sensitive sparks jump
off the page and inject moments of repose into your days, nights,
and life."
--Jill Miller, ERYT, creator of Yoga Tune Up(R) and the Therapy
Ball System(TM)
"Krucoff's Yoga Sparks is a simple, powerful tool for you to move
from 'doing' yoga to 'being' yoga. For too long in the West we've
separated yoga as something we do, when by practicing Sparks you
will discover that yoga is in fact what you are, moment to moment.
My sense is you will soon be creating your own Sparks as you
delight in your realization that 108 is really only just a good
start! Let your fire burn brighter with Yoga Sparks!"
--Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, ERYT, former president of the
International Association of Yoga Therapists, and the 'mind-body'
rehab guy bridging traditional rehab with yoga
"This is a wonderful collection of micro-practices designed to
elicit the meaning of the teachings [of yoga]. Who would want more?
Pause, feel the truth, be glad. Keep it simple, short, and
frequent."
--Erich Schiffmann, author of YOGA: The Spirit and Practice of
Moving into Stillness
"With a lighthearted understanding and compassion, we are offered
108 easy practices to 'spark' our remembering, connecting us to our
spiritual source, each and every moment."
--Nischala Joy Devi, international teacher and author of The
Healing Path of Yoga and The Secret Power of Yoga
"Yoga is popularly described as a practice for on and off the mat,
but how many people actually integrate and transfer their insights
from yoga to ordinary moments? Our reactivity easily eclipses our
ease and calm when triggered by the unexpected, or worse, the
unwanted details of life. If yoga is to become more than merely
exercise, we need to inhabit mini moments with awareness and find
ways to reconnect ourselves in body and mind. In Yoga Sparks,
Krucoff offers profound wisdom in sparkling bites that can easily
be applied while moving through our day, enhancing our capacity for
mindful living. She teaches us that our busy life is not in the way
of our yoga practice, and in fact the way to live yogically is
through the everyday moments of our life."
--Sarah Powers, author of Insight Yoga
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