Aryana Libris

Author : Kaminoff Leslie
Title : Yoga Anatomy
Year : 2007

Link download : Kaminoff_Leslie_-_Yoga_Anatomy.zip

First and foremost, I wish to express my gratitude to my family—my wife Uma, and my sons Sasha, Jai, and Shaun. Their patience, understanding, and love have carried me through the three-year process of conceiving, writing, and editing this book. They have sacrificed many hours that they would otherwise have spent with me, and that’s what made this work possible. I am thankful beyond measure for their support. I wish also to thank my father and mother for supporting their son’s unconventional interests and career for the past four decades. Allowing a child to find his own path in life is perhaps the greatest gift that a parent can give. This has been a truly collaborative project which would never have happened without the invaluable, ongoing support of an incredibly talented and dedicated team. Lydia Mann, whose most accurate title would be “Project and Author Wrangler” is a gifted designer, artist, and friend who guided me through every phase of this project: organizing, clarifying, and editing the structure of the book; shooting the majority of the photographs (including the author photos); designing the cover; introducing me to BackPack, a collaborative Web-based service from 37 Signals, which served as the repository of the images, text, and information that were assembled into the finished book. Without Lydia’s help and skill, this book would still be lingering somewhere in the space between my head and my hard drive. My colleague and collaborator Amy Matthews was responsible for the detailed and innovative asana analysis that forms the backbone of the book. Working with Amy continues to be one of the richest and most rewarding professional relationships I’ve ever had. Sharon Ellis has proven to be a skilled, perceptive, and flexible medical illustrator. When I first recruited her into this project after admiring her work online, she had no familiarity with yoga, but before long, she was slinging the Sanskrit terms and feeling her way through the postures like a seasoned yoga adept. This project would never have existed had it not been originally conceived by the team at Human Kinetics. Martin Barnard’s research led to me being offered the project in the first place. Leigh Keylock and Jason Muzinic’s editorial guidance and encouragement kept the project on track. I can’t thank them enough for their support and patience, but mostly for their patience. A very special thank you goes to my literary agent and good friend, Bob Tabian, who has been a steady, reliable voice of reason and experience. He’s the first person who saw me as an author, and never lost his faith that I could actually be one. For education, inspiration, and coaching along the way, I thank Swami Vishnu Devananda, Lynda Huey, Leroy Perry Jr., Jack Scott, Larry Payne, Craig Nelson, Gary Kraftsow, Yan Dhyansky, Steve Schram, William LeSassier, David Gorman, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Len Easter, Gil Hedley, and Tom Myers. I also thank all my students and clients past and present for being my most consistent and challenging teachers. A big thank you goes out to all the models who posed for our images: Amy Matthews, Alana Kornfeld, Janet Aschkenasy, Mariko Hirakawa (our cover model), Steve Rooney (who also donated the studio at International Center of Photography for a major shoot), Eden Kellner, Elizabeth Luckett, Derek Newman, Carl Horowitz, J. Brown, Jyothi Larson, Nadiya Nottingham, Richard Freeman, Arjuna, Eddie Stern, Shaun Kaminoff, and Uma McNeill. Thanks also go to the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for permission to use the iconic photographs of Sri T. Krishnamacharya as reference for the Mahamudra and Mulabandhasana drawings. Invaluable support for this project was also provided by Jen Harris, Edya Kalev, Leandro Villaro, Rudi Bach, Jenna O’Brien, and all the teachers, staff, students, and supporters of The Breathing Project. Leslie Kaminoff. Thanks to Leslie for inviting me to be a part of it all . . . little did I know what that “cool idea” would become! Many thanks to all of the teachers who encouraged my curiosity and passion for understanding things: especially Alison West, for cultivating a spirit of exploration and inquiry in her yoga classes; Mark Whitwell, for constantly reminding me of what I already know about why I am a teacher; Irene Dowd, for her enthusiasm and precision; and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, who models the passion and compassion for herself and her students that lets her be such a gift as a teacher. And I am hugely grateful to all the people and circles that have sustained me in the process of working on this book: my dearest friends Michelle and Aynsley; the summer BMC circle, especially our kitchen table circle, Wendy, Elizabeth, and Tarina; Kidney, and all the people I told to “stop asking!”; my family; and my beloved Karen, without whose love and support I would have been much more cranky. Amy Matthews. ...