Yoga posture adjustment and assisting
An insightful guide for yoga teacher and students
Stephanie Pappas
Trafford Publishing

Written by a very experienced teacher and teacher trainer, this book details teaching techniques for nearly 100 yoga postures. Stephanie makes a useful distinction between adjusting, which she describes as a short alteration or correction to the student's posture, and assisting, which involves helping a student to go deeper into an asana, and therefore lasts longer.
Packed with very valuable tips and practical advice, this book should be near the top of the reading list of anyone currently  training to be a yoga teacher, and even experienced teachers will pick up new ideas from it.
It has, however, definitely been written with yoga teachers in mind, and yoga students would be better off getting a copy of Iyengar's "Light on yoga".
But it certainly should be on every yoga teacher's bookshelves. In the short time it's been on mine, I have found myself referring to it more than once.
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Sacred Sanskrit works
For yoga, chant and meditation
Leza Lowitz and Reema Datta
Stone Bridge Press, 2005

What are the meanings and etymology of commonly used Sanskrit terms such as Ashram, Bandhas, Karma, or Nadis. Or rarer words like Amrita (a brand of ayurvedic products, but what else?), Kripalu ((the term is used for a style of yoga in the US, but where does it come from?) , or Mukti (as in, Jiva Mukti, but what does it mean?). The answers to these questions are in this small book, which covers 160 common Sanskrit terms used in yoga and meditation. The book also has a section on Chants, which covers most of the classic yoga chants that dedicated students will often have heard without knowing what they mean.
While a number of books on yoga include a glossary, this book goes much farther, and will prove invaluable to serious students of yoga, Indian philosophy, or meditation.
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Reviewed by Christophe Mouze