Your Body, Your Yoga

Table of Contents for Your Body, Your Yoga

Volume 1: What Stops Me?

How to Read this Book
Foreword: The History of Teaching Alignment
Intentions

1.    You Are Unique – So Is Your Yoga

Range of Human Variations
Examples of Human Variations

2.    What Stops Me?

Tension
Compression
Sensing Tension and Compression
Functional Yoga versus Aesthetic Yoga

3.    The Value of Stress
4.    The Physiology of Tissues

The Sources of Tension

Muscles
Myofascia
Tendons
Fascia
Ligaments
The Nervous System
The Immune System

The Sources of Compression

Bones
Joints and Cartilage

5. Volume 1 Summary

Appendices
A. Forms of Stress
B. Muscle Shapes and Functions
C. Myofascial Meridians
D. Facts about Osteoporosis
E. Types of Joints
F. Biomechanics of Joint Motion

Volume 2: The Lower Body

Intentions

1. The Bare Bones of Yoga
The Planes of the Body
2. The Joint Segments of the Lower Body
The Hip Joint

Form

The Architecture of the Hip Joint
The Bones of the Hip Joint
The Joint Capsule and Ligaments
Muscles of the Hip
The Types and Ranges of Variations

Function-Application in Yoga Postures

Normal Ranges of Motion
Sources of Tension
Sources of Compression
Variation in Ranges of Motion

Hip Joint Summary
3. The Knee Joint

Form

The Architecture of the Knee
The Bones of the Knee
The Knee-Joint Capsule and Ligaments
Muscles of the Knee
The Types and Ranges of Variations

Function-Application in Yoga Postures

Normal Ranges of Motion
Sources of Tension
Sources of Compression
Variation in Ranges of Motion

Knee Joint Summary

4. The Ankle-Foot Segment

Form

The Architecture of the Ankle-Foot Segment
The Bones of the Ankle and Foot
The Ligaments
The Muscles and Tendons
The Types and Ranges of Variations

Function-Application in Yoga Postures

Normal Ranges of Motion
Sources of Tension
Sources of Compression
Variation in Ranges of Motion

Ankle-Foot Segment Summary

5 Volume 2 Summary

Appendices
A. List of Anatomical Directions and Movements
B. Variations in the Female Pelvis
C. Mechanical Advantage—Pulleys and Levers
D. Flexion-Caused Impingement at the Hip Joint
E. The Dangers and Benefits of Valgum or Varum Knee Orientation
F. The Movement of the Foot and Ankle