For the first time, Lilias Folan, America's favorite TV Yoga expert, has developed programs to provide benefits for all areas of personal fitness: Lilias! Complete Yoga Fitness For Beginners series.From firming and shaping the entire body to building cardio strength to advanced relaxation techniques, this wonderful series is the perfect way to use yoga to help tone and firm your whole body and achieve total fitness. No one makes learning yoga easier than Lilias! Complete Yoga Fitness For Beginners. This series will be enjoyed by beginners and advanced users alike. VOLUME 1 INCLUDES:Lilias! Complete Yoga Fitness For Beginners: Arms & AbsLet Yoga be your secret weapon for toning and firming the upper body. Hands, arms and shoulders are potent instruments of expression and action. It is through them we reach out and participate in life. Developing and maintaining upper body strength will sculpt shape your arms and shoulders and provide support for your yoga postures, and how you will walk and carry yourself through life. Additional postures build strong abdominals to advance your yoga practice maintain a healthy back. Lilias! Complete Yoga Fitness For Beginners: Legs & BunsLet Yoga be your secret weapon for toning and firming the lower body. With special focus on your abdomen and legs, these safe, solid, standing Yoga postures, when practiced regularly, will strengthen and elegantly shape your legs and seat. These exercises emphasize conscious movement, proper breathing and the use of yoga sound to help focus your concentration and keep your practice fresh, effective and interesting. VOLUME 2 INCLUDES:Cardio Challenge Let Yoga be your secret weapon for increasing energy, flexibility and strength. This classical sun salutation is a sequence of 12 postures that flow dynamically one into the other. This flowing yoga will develop your endurance, flexibility, muscle strength and with regular practice will contribute significantly to your cardio vascular fitness! Traditionally, Surya Namaskar was done at dawn to greet the day and salute the rising sun. Take a moment to reflect on the sun and how it gives to you continuously and freely. Your body is condensed sunlight and today you are saluting the highest aspects of love, light and wisdom within you. In just thirty minutes you will feel how effectively yoga can build energy, flexibility and strength, while also calming your mind and soothing your soul. BONUS! Serenity Now Let Yoga be your secret weapon for reducing stress and achieving relaxation. Within each of us is a source of inner strength and serenity. Yoga will help you experience this inner source. Slow, rhythmical breathing with enjoyable postures that flow one into the other will help relax the body, quiet your inner chatter, sooth the nervous system. Yoga poses will help you focus your attention on one thing, rather than many. When the mind is calm, we make space for a greater sense of relaxation, inner contentment caring for yourself and those around you.
