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Recommended yoga books
for beginners

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Yoga for You
A Step-by-step Guide to Yoga at Home for Everybody
(Tara Fraser)
A very comprehensive overview of all aspects of yoga. The book is clearly written, has excellent photographs and is very reasonably priced. The sub-title of the book: "A step by step guide to yoga at home for everybody" proves to be an accurate description.

Yoga Mind and Body Book
(Sivananda Centre)
This is a comprehensive book covering all aspects of yoga, but without going into too much detail. Contains many colour photographs. Great for beginners and more experienced students alike. Don't let the cover picuture put you off! A delightful coffee table book or gift.

101 Essential Tips: Yoga
(Sivananda Centre)
A tiny book with quite a lot in it! A condensed version of Yoga Mind and Body (above).

Yoga for your Life
A Practice Manual of Breath and Movement
(M and M Pierce)
Contains a number of gentle sequences for home practice (viniyoga), fully illustrated. An attractively produced book with some interesting introductions to each chapter.

Health Style
The complete integrated guide to a healthy life
( Lorna Lee Malcolm)
This book encourages the reader to adopt a healthy lifestyle, taking elements from many different holistic therapies and disciplines, including a substantial amount of yoga. It contains lots of colour pictures and quotations. Beginners to yoga, and those who are trying to change to a healthier lifestyle will find this book useful.

Yoga Over Fifty
The Way to Vitality, Health and Energy in Later Life
(Mary Stewart)
A good introduction for those taking up yoga in later years.

Journey of Awakening
A Meditators Guide Book
(Ram Dass)
A small paperback giving a very readable introduction to meditation and what it's all about.

The Road Less Travelled
The New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
(M Scott Peck)
Not strictly a yoga book, but a great read for anyone interested in personal development, both mental and spiritual.