ADHO MUKHA VKRSASANA: SKANDA YOGA HANDSTAND TRAINING GUIDE Paperback – Large Print, 8 Feb. 2024

Whether you are a yoga teacher who wants to expand their repertoire of techniques or an avid yoga practitioner looking to master handstand this book is for you!Ever since I started practicing yoga more than 10 years ago I found handstand to be the most athletic and fun endeavor of the whole practice. I would be mesmerized watching the advanced practitioners in class performing beautiful handstands and I would hope that someday I would achieve that myself.After taking my first Yoga Teacher Training and as my yoga practice deepened and broadened, I found that achieving certain poses, including handstand, had taken a whole new meaning. It wasn’t just about the asana anymore, yoga had become a multi dimensional experience.For those wishing to achieve handstand in the physical realm as well as for the seekers on the spiritual path, this book is a complete guide to mind body and spirit connection and collaboration for the attainment of this most coveted pose.Handstand is the ultimate flow pose, bringing you in the center, in the moment, in perfect meditation, emptying the mind, suspending thought, creating laser focus on the breath. In a play of perfect balance between strength and surrender we find the bliss of the practice. Just like the pursuit “is” happiness itself, so the journey to handstand unfolds as the goal itself.One of the things you will love about this book is that it can be used purely as a guide for handstand or it can be approached as a book for yoga practice geared towards the achievement of handstand.Ultimately what this book teaches us is that there are certain techniques and prerequisites to achieving standing upside down on your hands but the attainment of the pose is less important than the path itself. At the end you will learn that it’s ok if you are not there yet because you are having so much fun trying and you are learning so much about yourself, the body, the ego, the mind, the universe!This is an all encompassing guide for those who dare to venture into the asana and beyond.