An enlightening look at what your body is doing when you practise yoga, providing sequences of poses specifically designed to improve your posture, vitality and health. Yoga is well known for its corrective benefits, but how can you best use this ancient tradition to improve your posture, health and vitality? In this in-depth guide, yoga expert Nicky Jenkins and exercise specialist Leigh Brandon introduce a range of techniques chosen with these goals in mind. With full-colour illustrations of the muscles in action, it allows yoga practitioners to understand how their bodies are working when they assume yogic poses. Broken down into detailed sections on different postural imbalances - kyphotic, lordotic, flat-back and sway postures - Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health shows the physical and emotional causes and consequences of each posture type, followed by a sequence of poses designed to correct and improve them. Each series of sequences will assist in bringing back muscular balance and spine strength, which are at the core of the body's health. The book also contains breathing and meditation practices to help bring tranquillity and understanding, enhancing the emotional connection to the body and strengthening the mind.