Pose by Pose: Learn the Anatomy and Enhance Your Practice (Volume 2)

by Kelly Solloway

This companion guide to the bestselling Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book helps experienced and aspiring yogis deepen their practice through coloring the essential anatomy engaged in 50 poses. Color your way to yoga knowledge! By understanding your body and its anatomical structure, you can improve your practice, no matter your level. This follow-up to the bestselling Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book—written by yoga instructor, licensed massage therapist, and anatomy teacher Kelly Solloway—shows the proper engagement of muscles in dozens of fundamental and more advanced poses, or asanas. As practitioners color in the beautiful and detailed black-and-white drawings, they can clearly see the asana and relevant anatomy; each illustration includes a label to color and reinforce learning. Solloway explains how the muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments function together in each pose, and provides advice on working safely and effectively. Additional tips are sprinkled throughout, and 48 perforated flash cards enable readers to quiz themselves, study yoga anatomy on the go, and design custom sequences. When you buy this Spiral-bound book from the Amazon Store named "Live Free or Die!" we are letting you know that we, “Spiraling FreedomTM” are the ones doing the Spiral binding and not the author, publisher, or rights holder. This Spiral bound book was purchased from the rights holder as a paper bound book and we have professionally applied a Spiral binding for you! You can soon hold in your hands a fantastic, spiral bound book that is easier to handle and lays flat when opened, making it easier to draw, color, follow a recipe, review or make study notes! If you have any questions about the Spiral binding, please contact us through our "Live Free or Die!" store front using the Amazon email system. Thank you! “Spiraling FreedomTM”

136 pages, Spiral-bound

Published November 3, 2020

Reviews

[Lady Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have much of the same things to say about this book that I said about the first one. This book, I felt had a more colloquial and even sarcastic tone to it at times, which I thought was unnecessary.

The illustrations in the previous book, I felt were superior to the illustrations in this book.

The layout of this book annoyed me at times. For a coloring book, having the images to color split across a page break is difficult. It is difficult to color across the spine of the book. In some cases, merely rotating the image 90 degrees would solve the problem. A great example of this is the setu bandha sarvangasana image. I know it would create some other formatting challenges, but it would be of great benefit to those trying to color the images. Furthermore, having the images go so far into the binding poses another problem altogether. I do love the spiral biding, as it makes coloring much easier, without having to also hold the book open to color it.

I do love coloring the pictures to help me learn the landmarks in the body. I did need external sources to help me with some of the landmarks to get them colored properly.

Something I really like that was added to this book was the origins of the poses and the stories behind the poses. That makes me want to read/learn more about yoga legends.