Yoga Inversions Your Guide to Going Upside Down

by Heagberg Rebar, Kat; Bondy, Dianne; Killam, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9781645471004
• ISBN10: 1645471004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-08-22
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

An approachable, user-friendly guide to inversions of all kinds for anyone who wants to try going upside down, featuring 85 practices that explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of yoga.

Learn to hop into a handstand, do a forearm stand with blocks⁠—and even appreciate legs up the wall in new ways with this comprehensive and accessible guide to inversions in yoga.

Kat Heagberg Rebar offers an easy-to-follow guide with 175 beautiful color photos. For each pose Kat offers adaptations, challenging variations, and everything in between. She also shares options to prepare safely and practices to build strength. In addition to teaching the physical practice of inversions, Rebar addresses the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of this often-challenging practice. 

Yoga Inversions offers a progressive, biomechanically sound, inclusive, step-by-step approach to anyone who wants to try being upside down, and includes: 

• Downward dog and dolphin variations to set you up for success
• Innovative prop tips

• Handstand preps and drills 
• Tips for stepping, jumping, hopping, and pressing into handstand 
• Handstand against the wall and away from the wall
• Forearm stand, headstand, and shoulderstand variations 
• Customizable practices to help you reach your goals

• And much more

Author Biography

KAT HEAGBERG REBAR (eRYT-500) (she/her/they/them) has been teaching yoga since 2005. Kat is the Department Chair of Yoga Studies at Pacific College of Health and Science, the former editor in chief of Yoga International, and co-author of Yoga Where You Are with Dianne Bondy (Shambhala, 2020). Kat has training in many different yoga schools and styles including alignment-based traditions, vinyasa yoga, and prenatal and postpartum practices. Kat also spent several years living, working, and teaching at a yoga ashram where, in addition to asana, she studied Sanskrit, Ayurveda, Tantric and Classical yoga philosophy, and yogic meditation.