Power Yoga for Dummies

446 Pages·2001·17.34 MB·English

by  Doug Swenson

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Power Yoga For Dummies

by Doug Swenson
Foreword by David Swenson
Power Yoga For Dummies®
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About the Author
Doug Swenson is an internationally known Yoga teacher and health
educator. Doug began studying Yoga in 1969 with Dr. Ernest Wood and has
been practicing and teaching Yoga ever since. Doug has studied under many
great teachers, including K. Pattabhi Jois, guru of Ashtanga Yoga, from
which Power Yoga was born. Doug has dedicated his life to a holistic
approach of Yoga, learning from several different systems, and combining
them with his interest in nutrition, concern for the environment, and warm,
humorous approach to life to create his own unique and powerful system of
Yoga practice. Doug teaches Yoga workshops and teacher-training courses
across the U.S. and in other countries. Doug is the author of three books on
Yoga, and another on diet and nutrition. Check him out in Chapter 15, doing
the Moonbeam Bird in Figure 15-2.
Author’s Acknowledgments
Writing a book is a long and often very difficult process. I would have never
been able to tackle this project on my own, so I’d like to give my thanks and
appreciation to all those who have worked so hard and with such creative
energy to help me see it through.
I first want to thank Karen Young (Acquisitions Editor), who is not only a
wonderful worker, but also a really cool woman, and who helped me from the
very beginning. I’d also like to thank Stacy Klein (Acquisitions Coordinator),
Tracy Boggier (Acquisitions Manager), Lee Edgren (Technical Reviewer),
Raul Marroquin (Photographer), and Gwenette Gaddis (Copy Editor) for their
excellent work. Lorna Gentry (Professional Writing Assistant) polished my
work and made it into a wonderful book. Kathleen Dobie (Project Editor) has
encouraged and inspired me with suggestions and moral support when the
work ahead seemed overwhelming. Carol Susan Roth (Literary Agent)
brought me to this wonderful publisher and helped me see the project
through.
Additional thanks: I would also like to thank my brother, Master Ashtanga
teacher David Swenson, for his support and encouragement and for writing
the foreword to this book. I also would like to thank Beryl Bender, author of
Power Yoga and Beyond Power Yoga, for taking the time out of her busy life
to write a blurb for this book. If it weren’t for the teachings and work of
David Williams and Nancy Gilgoff (two of the first and best American
teachers of Ashtanga Yoga) this information would not be available today. I
would also like to thank the talented actress Karen Allen for her kind words
and wonderful friendship. I would like to give special thanks to John Friend
for taking time and energy out of his busy schedule to acknowledge this
work. John has truly influenced endless Yoga students with his wonderful
style of teaching Yoga.
Photo models: I would like to give special thanks to my good friends and
photo models: Robert Boustany — Good friend and great yoga teacher,
photo models: Robert Boustany — Good friend and great yoga teacher,
inventor, and philosopher; Anne — Good friend, great yogini, and rock
climber; Lisa Wheeler — Friend and kind, sweet yogini; Raye Lynne Rath —
Good friend and great Yoga teacher; David Swenson (Brother) — Master
Ashtanga teacher and blood brother; Julie Wilkinson — Wonderful yogini
and teaching assistant, very close personal friend; Violet Swenson (Mother)
— My mother, yogini, and really kindhearted woman. My thanks to a good
friend and Yogini model Susan Baker, who has provided wonderful Yoga
classes in Northwest Houston for many years.
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