Anatomía y biomecánica aplicadas al yoga

This work shows, through illustrations, the anatomy and biomechanics applied to yoga. Conceived as an interactive manual, it includes access to an exclusive website that provides the reader with precise guidance, enhanced by the interactive experience. The benefits of yoga are innumerable. Good health, energy, well-being and calm are some of them. Both masters and students claim to greatly enjoy the practice of postures. However, occasionally, problems can arise, mainly in the cervical and lumbar vertebrae and the knees. What are the causes? How to avoid them? Alejandro Chiarella explains it in this book that includes 400 images. Formerly these problems almost did not exist, because the postural habits of the practitioners of ancient India were not the same as those of our contemporaries. Unlike our yogi ancestors, we spend more hours sitting still. This position shapes the body by restricting its mobility and creating compensations. That is to say: other parts of the body will perform the movements that originally would correspond to the restricted joints. In biomechanics, compensations are unnatural, and can even be traumatic. For yoga, the body is the temple of the soul, the portal to a spiritual dimension. Working postures in alignment prevents injuries and, fundamentally, awakens those potentials of health and spirituality.