Yoga for Hikers: How to Stretch, Strengthen, and Hike Farther

Yoga for Hikers 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 hiking enact on the body. This guide feature: - 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 panorama