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Great guide for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. There's a great focus on adapting for different body types, and abilities. This actually prompted me to get back into practise. Recommended for any interested in yoga.

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What a wonderful book (that I think all teachers should read). Full of body positivity (bodies of any size, any ability, and any age have a right to practice yoga!), photos and descriptions of various asanas in many forms of expression, and wonderful reminders that your yoga practice is about YOU - how you feel in a pose, not how someone else THINKS you should be in a pose.

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Yoga Where You Are is another great book by the Yoga For All Guru, Dianne Bondy and Kat Heagberg. Dianne is a great advocate and voice for all body inclusivity and body image in general and especially in the world of yoga.

The book provides a short overview of yoga practice from the beginning to our modern times. She also addresses the issues of accessibity of yoga and body image in yoga, but also advice on how to start your yoga practice.

The book covers everything from prayanama to yoga postures and offers modifications though the use of props
to make it accessible for all.

The photographs illustrate the various poses beautifully and Ms. Dianne Bondy is one of the yoga models too.

All in all, this is a very attractive and well written book with clear illustrations.

I highly recommend this book!

Thank you, Shamble Publications and NetGalley for the ARC of this beautiful and informative book.
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I definitely appreciated the chapters dedicated to descriptions (and photos) of different positions- and all of them had at least three recommended adjustments including chair poses and using blocks or other props if the 'original' pose is too difficult. Not everyone can handle doing all the poses, so it was good to get support for doing what you can, when you can. This is a book that aims for a wide audience, from beginners to instructors, and is the sort of book that you can continually go back to as you change and develop in your practice. Excellent photographs to assist in poses.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

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This book is an excellent resource for yogis who need more options for yoga. As a person of size, I often need to modify yoga poses to accommodate my body shape, but many yoga teachers do not know how to offer me safe modifications. In the past I have had to figure those out for myself.

This book offers multiple options for each pose and the photos show those options clearly. I feel like this book is a little more geared toward yoga teachers rather than individuals who practice yoga, but that does not mean that this book is not useful to the average person who wants to try yoga.

If you're a person who is interested in yoga and you have a disability or a body that makes doing yoga the "regular" way difficult, I would recommend this book to help you deepen your practice.

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Dianne Bondy’s books make the practice of yoga accessible to everyone. If you have ever wanted to take a yoga class but were intimated or taken a yoga class that seemed inaccessible for you—don’t give up. Get one of Dianne’s books, attend one of her workshops, and follow her on social media. Yoga is for everyone and every body.

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