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4.5
This review is written by my wife, who bought this for her Kindle:I hurt my back last year lifting our injured 60-pound dog into the car (the lift was OK, but the twist and bend-over to get him in there cause this nasty wrenching in my lower back). It meant months of restricted activity and what I thought was gentle yoga, but I kept re-injuring myself and losing ground. I bought this book in December and have learned SO MUCH more than what exercises to do. I have learned how to recognize the different kinds of pain and what they mean in terms of modifying what I'm doing (or not). I learned that a stretch needs at least 15-20 seconds before the muscle understands and responds appropriately. I learned that the Sun Salutation that I'd been doing on my own is way beyond what I should be doing with this injury. But then I learned even more, addressing old injuries to my neck and shoulder. So far, after just a few weeks of working with the stretches and the beginner poses, I have lots more range of motion, better balance, much less pain and have halted at least 3 early morning migraine attacks using neck stretches and the child's pose.Over the years I have seen doctors, chiropracters, tried Callanetics, Pilates and been in several yoga classes, but this book provided me more information that I could use by myself to improve my body without further injury. It has been a real blessing, and I haven't even gotten to many of the Moving On poses yet.My only reason for not giving this a 5-star review is that in the Kindle version the diagrams and figures are sometimes too washed out to see the detail, and they are sort of scattered through the text, rather than placed right before or right after the text that refers to them. But I chose the Kindle version so that I could look up words and find material more easily, so not a bad trade-off for me.
