Yoga for Climbers: How to Stretch, Strengthen and Climb Higher

by Nicole Tsong

Yoga for Climbers will show you how to create a yoga practice at home that will keep you healthy, prevent injuries, and support and improve your outdoor passions. This guide feature easy-to-understand yoga poses and sequences designed to address the specific stresses that climbing enact on the body.




This guide

• Detailed overviews of the areas of the body most impacted by climbing and hiking

• Injuries common to these sports that yoga can address

• Explanation of yoga's physical and mental benefits, and how it can enhance time on rock or trail

• Foundational techniques for creating a yoga practice, including the fundamentals of meditation

• Several sequences for a home practice, designed specifically for climbers and hikers

• Interviews with climbers and hikers who use yoga to support their physical strength and hone their mental focus―from professionals, such as Steph Davis and Buzz Burrell, to average weekend-warriors



For inspiration and visual appeal, the books include panoramas of yoga poses in outdoor settings, studio photos of the specific yoga poses and sequences, and technical drawings related to anatomy and common ailments.

Genres: Climbing, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

Published May 4, 2016

About the author

For more than six years, Nicole Tsong wrote the popular “Fit for Life” column in The Seattle Times, published in Pacific NW Magazine. Nicole is the author of “Yoga for Hikers” and “Yoga for Climbers” with Mountaineers Books, and has taught yoga for more than a decade, including for three years at the White House Easter Egg Roll. In addition to writing, Nicole founded a work/life balance coaching business, supporting high-achieving women master radical change. A former journalist, Nicole has lived and worked in Anchorage, Alaska, Washington D.C. and Walla Walla, Washington, covering topics ranging from the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to a U.S. Senate race.
Raised in Chicago, Nicole was first introduced to the mountains during a dinosaur dig in Moab, Utah in high school. Her love of hiking and mountains took off as a student at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., where she majored in comparative literature. After a stint teaching English to college students in Wuhan, China, Nicole moved to the West Coast and has called it home ever since. She now lives in Seattle, where you can find her out in the mountains with her pup Coco, playing violin, and loving on her houseplants. Reach out at nicoletsong.com.