Happy Yoga

Description

In this smart, joyful, and humorous book, Steve Ross welcomes anyone and everyone to improve their mental and physical state dramatically with Yoga. Ross starts with the assumption that everyone is inherently happy, but that happiness is shadowed and suffocated by the layers of worry that occupy our daily thoughts. With each chapter, Steve examines the roots of our deepest anxieties-love, career, family, war, and death-and uses yoga wisdom to explain how to quiet the mind and move beyond fear. He explains that the secret to Yoga is not worrying whether your feet are in parallel position or whether you can bend as far as the skinny model on your left, but rather, stripping the mind of those anxieties to locate the happiness at your core. By combining postures, diet, and music suggestions with a refreshingly straightforward approach to yoga philosophy, Ross is a welcoming and accessible presence in the world of Yoga. Like Yoga for Dummies personified, he instills the confidence that anyone can be involved in this trendy activity-not just the Christy Turlingtons of this world.

Steve Ross has been a yoga instructor for twenty years. Called Yogi to the Stars by InStyle, Ross has appeared in numerous publications including Vanity Fair and the New York Times. He is the host of Inhale, an early morning yoga program on the Oxygen network, and is a yoga teacher and retreat leader at Maha Yoga in his hometown of Los Angeles.