Open Body: Creating Your

By Todd Walton

LISTEN TO YOUR BODY I have written this book to help you overcome your fears and misconceptions about yoga, and to ignite your creative responses to your body. Many people feel intimidated by yoga books and magazines featuring extremely limber practitioners demonstrating various yoga postures. They may cease their practice because they feel inferior, or because theyve hurt themselves trying to do more than their bodies are ready to do. You need know nothing about yoga to understand and enjoy this book. My yoga is not the yoga of my friend. My yoga is not the yoga of the lithe person in the how-to book. My yoga is my personal response to the needs of my body. For anyone suffering from pain and tension, either physical or emotional, and for those of you intent on improving your flexibility and strength, this book should prove helpful and thought-provoking. I hope it will enhance your relationship to your most miraculous creation--you. Welcome.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380795353
• ISBN13: 9780380795352
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.7" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A wonderfully gentle book

This book is a wonderful way to introduce someone to the concept, but not the "how-to", of yoga. Because the author writes very honestly of his own physical limitations, it's particularly useful as a means to encourage anyone to try yoga, especially those who are intimiated by all the bendy yogis and yoginis shown in how-to yoga books. But Walton's attitude towards yoga is so wonderfully simple and refreshing, the book also can serve as a great pick-up to those who feel their yoga practice has grown a little stale or become too superficial. Pick up a copy if you can find one!

Captures the spirit of yoga wonderfully

This book was so inspiring. I have read many books on yoga, but this one is special. Although I think it is important to try the classical postures, this book eloquently and yet simply captures the way that those postures *should* be attempted, with care and respect for one's individual body, and with the goal of healing all aspects of the self. Both inspiring and wonderfully restful to read, this is a special book indeed. :) For beginners, I would highly recommend this book along with a more classic introductory book, and for more advanced students, I think this book will be refreshing and a joy. Thanks. :)

A blend of art and gentle, creative yoga

I loved this book. The drawings of bodies in motion are spontaneous and full of life. The author's ideas about 'creating your own yoga' are inspiring. After reading the book, I am reminded during the day of many possible gentle ways to keep the body in motion. Stretching is so lovely! I think I would enjoy reading this book again and again, because the book has a calming effect upon me. A sense of peacefulness comes across the pages.