Key Muscles of Yoga Your Guide to Functional Anatomy in Yoga 3RD EDITION [PB,2009]

by Ray Long

This book offers a scientific approach to understanding the practice of hatha yoga. Through four-color, three-dimensional illustrations of major muscles, tendons, and ligaments, Ray Long describes the practice and benefits of hatha yoga.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Dr. Ray A. Long is an orthopedic surgeon and the founder of Bandha Yoga. He is widely known for integrating modern western science with ancient Hatha yoga. He authored the popular Scientific Keys and Yoga Mat Companion book series, which use 3D anatomical illustrations to show how muscles, tendons, and ligaments work in each pose.

Reviews

[Victoria]

This book starts with the basics: skeleton, joints, ligaments, muscles and tendons. It then reviews each region of the body, detailing each muscle, in particular their origin and their insertion, and which muscles are agonists, antagonists and synergists. Muscles in movement are also described in detail, with the six different possibilities according to the three planes: adduction and abduction in the coronal plane, flexion and extension in the sagittal plane, and internal and external rotations in the transverse plane. It’s not always easy to apprehend all the details, but it’s really interesting to understand what’s going on in each asana. A fascinating book for all yogis and yoginis.

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[Elise Zagore Wheelock]

Generally useful guide to the muscles and yoga. I've referred back to it a few times already. Some of the poses aren't accurate and the science combined with yogic philosophy wasn't intertwined the way it wanted to be. More information, more connective tissue (hehe) between the two would have helped tremendously.

[Regina Zepeda]

I don’t understand it all that much but im gegging there

[AvidReader]

A great book. Explains individual muscle well. But I was looking for all the muscles functions in one pose.