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The ultimate fusion for health and fitness
In this exciting new book Jonathan Monks fuses the essential core ideas from two disciplines - the stretching and balancing of yoga and the muscle control demonstrated by the Pilates technique. This new style of practice begins with the core strength of the body - the centric that holds everything else together. The only essential tools are yourself and a willingness to listen to your body and re-learn what it can do.
- A distinctive new style of exercise combining the benefits of yoga and Pilates.
- Rediscover the strength and flexibility of your own body and improve your stamina and balance to achieve an optimum level of fitness.
- Transform the shape of your body by strengthening your core muscles to create your own 'body beautiful'.
- Dynamic sequences are graded to suit your energy levels at different times of the day.
- The postures show easy and more advanced variations, to suit your level of flexibility.
- Use this book to create your own personal style of exercise that you can take up, adapt and practice, wherever you are.
- Fully illustrated with over 300 practical photographs that clearly demonstrate the postures, with close-up details.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jonathan Monks has an MA in music and has lectured on the effect of yogic exercise on performers. A one-time personal trainer and a gym and triathlon enthusiast, he has studied Astanga Vinyasa yoga for 12 years and pursued the idea of delivering the physical element of the discipline without the dogma. Now he has achieved his aim of uniting the different strands of his life into one beneficial physical practice.
Jonathan teaches his unique form of exercise, 'Yogamonks', at Danceworks in central London and to members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also trained many teachers in his unique fusion of yoga and Pilates. Jonathan believes that understanding can only be obtained through self-discovery and daily practice.

Yoga-Pilates

(BK-2363)