Yoga for Women: Wellness and Vitality at Every Stage of Life

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Yoga for the female body - restore vitality, reduce stress, improve your sex life, and target conditions that are statistically more common in women. Restore vitality, reduce stress, and get your mojo back with yoga tailored to the female body. Discover how yoga can provide health benefits specifically for your female body, whatever your stage of life. Women are more prone to asthma, thyroid disease, and osteoporosis, and can use yoga to mitigate against such health threats. You may be pregnant or a new mother, balancing family commitments, or feel exhausted all the time - Yoga for Women has ideal programmes to help you find renewed energy and inner calm. Discover how certain asanas can build bone strength or a healthy respiratory system, relieve stress and boost energy, improve your sex life, provide gentle exercise during pregnancy, or alleviate pain or the symptoms of menopause. Start with the basics, including simple warm-ups and poses that will enhance your well-being. Then explore sequences that help you to guard against female health issues and meet the challenges that life presents. Yoga for Women is perfect for women at every stage of life.

Shakta Khalsa has been a yoga teacher for almost 45 years. She is a certified kundalini yoga instructor and teacher trainer, a Montessori educator, and a member of Yoga Alliance. She specialises in yoga for women and yoga for children and is also the author of Kundalini Yoga and KISS Guide to Yoga, both for DK. Shakta lives in Northern Virginia, US.

"This simple guide to bringing calmness, flexibility and joy into your life will help reduce your risk of osteoporosis, thyroid disease and a multitude of other nasties, all by practicing this ancient art. It contains advice for every woman including new mums and those in the menopause." * Top Sante *