PASSIONATE ABOUT GARDENING?
Learn how yoga can help you better prepare for and more quickly recover from gardening. No yoga experience required.
HOW THIS HELPS
With guidance from a long-time physical therapist and yoga teacher, discover how to strengthen the arms, legs, and torso as well as increase the flexibility needed for gardening. Learn ways to improve pelvic stability and abdominal strength to help protect the back from heavy lifting and common landscaping activities. Find out how to warm up key areas of the body before gardening to help prevent injuries. Learn poses you can do right in the garden to bring immediate relief. And explore ways to restore and rejuvenate the body and mind after a long day of gardening.
UNIQUE OFFERING
Designed exclusively for mobile devices, this guide features 40 safe and effective poses, carefully selected for specific gardener needs. It is based on decades of teaching and clinical experience and tested by scores of avid gardeners at the authors' yoga studio. Inside you will find easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations, easily practiced before, during, or after gardening. Just as we take care of our gardening tools, it is important to take care of our bodies. Think of this ebook as giving you an extended warranty for lifelong gardening pleasure!
EXPERT APPROACH
Jill Johnson has been a physical therapist since 1984 and holds a masters degree in biomechanics from University of Wisconsin (Madison). She is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher and travels to Pune, India, to study with the Iyengar family and assist in their medical classes. Diana Shannon is an award-winning educational curriculm designer. For more than 25 years, she has designed innovative educational tools and curriculum for a variety of audiences, including yoga students. Diana is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher and has an engineering degree from Dartmouth College. They both teach yoga at Ancient Healing Arts Yoga Studio of Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Learn how yoga can help you better prepare for and more quickly recover from gardening. No yoga experience required.
HOW THIS HELPS
With guidance from a long-time physical therapist and yoga teacher, discover how to strengthen the arms, legs, and torso as well as increase the flexibility needed for gardening. Learn ways to improve pelvic stability and abdominal strength to help protect the back from heavy lifting and common landscaping activities. Find out how to warm up key areas of the body before gardening to help prevent injuries. Learn poses you can do right in the garden to bring immediate relief. And explore ways to restore and rejuvenate the body and mind after a long day of gardening.
UNIQUE OFFERING
Designed exclusively for mobile devices, this guide features 40 safe and effective poses, carefully selected for specific gardener needs. It is based on decades of teaching and clinical experience and tested by scores of avid gardeners at the authors' yoga studio. Inside you will find easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations, easily practiced before, during, or after gardening. Just as we take care of our gardening tools, it is important to take care of our bodies. Think of this ebook as giving you an extended warranty for lifelong gardening pleasure!
EXPERT APPROACH
Jill Johnson has been a physical therapist since 1984 and holds a masters degree in biomechanics from University of Wisconsin (Madison). She is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher and travels to Pune, India, to study with the Iyengar family and assist in their medical classes. Diana Shannon is an award-winning educational curriculm designer. For more than 25 years, she has designed innovative educational tools and curriculum for a variety of audiences, including yoga students. Diana is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher and has an engineering degree from Dartmouth College. They both teach yoga at Ancient Healing Arts Yoga Studio of Lebanon, New Hampshire.