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Yoga for Computer Users

Healthy Necks, Shoulders, Wrists, and Hands in the Postmodern Age

By Sandy Blaine

SKU
9781930485600
Shambhala Publications
08/01/2016
ISBN: 9781930485600
Details
An ever-increasing number of people depend on computers for both work and entertainment, which means an ever-increasing number of hours spent slumped in a chair—and an ever-increasing number of hand, wrist, neck, and shoulder injuries. Yoga for Computer Users offers a new kind of preventive self-care. It contains twenty-three illustrated poses and exercises, plus breathing and relaxation techniques, that increase circulation and range of motion, prevent injuries to the upper body, improve posture, and avert energy stagnation. They can be performed regardless of age or yoga experience and are combined in sequences ranging from quick five-minute stretching breaks that can be done while at the computer to more intensive thirty-minute sessions designed for morning energy and evening relaxation. A special “Everyday Yoga” section presents lifestyle tips that help readers learn to alternate mouse hands, strengthen their core, stretch throughout the day, and schedule time for joy.
Author Bio
Sandy Blaine

Sandy Blaine grew up in Berkeley, California, where she took her first yoga class in 1987 and immediately fell in love with its beauty and mystery. She has a joyous devotion to her own daily yoga practice, which she strives to share with her students through her teaching and writing.

Sandy got her start teaching yoga at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and has been teaching full time in the San Fransisco Bay Area ever since. In 1995, she graduated from the Advanced Studies Program at Berkeley's Yoga Room; she joined their faculty in 2000. She is one of the founders and codirectors of the Alameda Yoga Station, which opened in 1995. In addition to teaching her weekly classes in Berkeley and Alameda, she has been the in-house yoga teacher at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California since 1994.

Sandy's writing has appeared in Ascent, Yoga International, and Yoga Journal. In 2004 she wrote a series on home practice, "Asana at Home," for Yoga International's "Asana" column.

Sandy resides in Oakland, California where, when not teaching, practicing, or writing about yoga, she enjoys reading, cooking, and hiking in the Oakland hills.

For more information about her yoga classes and workshops, visit www.AlamedaYogaStation.com and www.YogaRoomBerkeley.com.

Praise

"Sandy has a true girft for balancing technique with spirit, common sense with insight, modern application with traditional fundamentals. It is not often that computer users get a high-quality, inexpensive add-on with an upgrade path that can lead to enlightenment." —Randy Nelson, Dean, Pixar University, Pixar Animation Studios

"Yoga for Computer Users could change your life! Sandy Blaine deftly addresses the epidemic of problems that plague computer users and explains exactly what we can do about it. I have no doubt that anyone who reads this book will learn how to bring greater ease, comfort, and health into their life." —Nora Isaacs, author of Women in Overdrive: Find Balance and Overcome Burnout at Any Age

"This book is great preventive medicine for anyone who works at a computer. It’s practical, clearly written, and full of good and simple advice on how to relax, release tense muscles, improve your posture, and bring yogic awareness into your life." —Timothy McCall, MD, medical editor of Yoga Journal, author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing

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