Introducing Yoga with Weights

In This Chapter

- Exploring yoga and yoga with weights

- Looking at the potential health benefits of yoga with weights

- Deciding whether you?re ready to start doing yoga-with-weights workouts

- Investing in the appropriate tools, equipment, and gear

- Aligning your body properly for the exercises

- Reviewing safety issues and pain management

?What is yoga with weights, anyway?? Wonder no more, dear reader.
This chapter familiarizes you with this exciting new exercise discipline:
what it is, what you can get out of it, and what you need to get started
(don?t worry, you don?t need much).
We believe that everyone can benefit from yoga-with-weights exercises. No
matter how flexible you are, how old or young you are, whether you?re a
paragon of good health or you?re just starting down the road to a healthier,
happier lifestyle, yoga with weights can help you. We really want to encourage
you to take up yoga with weights. We think, no, we know you?ll love it!