The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga - Swami Vishnudevananda - 1960

A world-renowned treatise on yoga and its practice. The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga provides a complete training program for tapping yoga’s power to relax and rejuvenate the mind; to improve concentration, to prevent illness and to increase physical strength and flexibility. The book was one of the first reference works on asanas (yoga postures) in the development of yoga as exercise in the West in the mid-20th century. The book is illustrated with 146 large monochrome photographs of Vishnudevananda performing the shatkarmas and the asanas; a frontispiece shows him meditating in Padmasana (lotus position). A classic!! - The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga - Swami Vishnudevananda Published 1960, Bell Publishing, New York. Hardcover. Approx. 7x10in. 359pp. A bit of wear on the board edges; otherwise in good vintage condition.