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2015Contact Haley Stocking, Publicist 206/826-4318
[email protected] Back sore from planting seeds? Knees
tired from weeding? Soothe stiff joints and muscles with Gardeners
Yoga: 40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden Flow by Veronica DOrazio
(Sasquatch Books; $16.95; December 2015). The perfect remedy for
long hours in the garden, this fully updated book contains new
poses and beautiful illustrations by Frida Clements. These yoga
posesdivided into seasonal sequences, or flowsaddress the gardeners
body, guiding readers through postures to find ease and comfort
throughout the year. I wanted the poses to address the varying
physical demands gardening requires from season to season, says
author and yoga instructor Veronica DOrazio. For example, in
autumn, gardeners harvest crops, tidy and prune the frayed ends of
plants and owers, and prepare the garden for winter. There is a lot
of stooping, hauling, and lifting to rake, mulch, deadhead, and
more. By emphasizing poses that open the shoulders and soothe the
low back, the autumn sequence helps gardeners move through this
season more easefully. When gardeners are nished making peace with
the earth, Gardeners Yoga helps them make peace with their bodies
to alleviate the aches that come from digging, pulling, and
carrying. (MORE)Gardeners Yoga40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden
FlowVeronica DOrazio, illustrations by Frida ClementsAbout the
AuthorVeronica D'Orazio is a yoga instructor and freelance oral
designer in Seattle. She is the co-author of Fleurish. About the
IllustratorFrida Clements is an illustrator and graphic designer.
Her nature-inspired palette complements her distinctive
Scandinavian aesthetic, in which ora and fauna are frequent
subjects.Praise for the previous edition of Gardeners YogaAttention
gardeners: tired of achy knees, stiff joints, and sore elbows from
pulling, weeding, planting, and growing? Your love of tilling,
nurturing, and harvesting from the earth doesnt need to keep you as
stiff as a pretzel! Based on her two loves, Veronica DOrazio has
compiled a book of yoga poses to ease the bothersome aches and
pains of gardeners. Country AccentsThis little book makes an
excellent case for melding the ancient disciplines of gardening and
yoga.HortIdeasThese are gentle yoga poses that promote tranquility
and revitalize your energies, as well as prepare your muscles for
gardening.The Seattle TimesGardeners and exercise fans will nd much
to love here.Statesman JournalSASQUATCH BOOKS1904 3rd Avenue, Suite
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Gardeners Yoga 40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden FlowVeronica
DOrazio, illustrations by Frida ClementsDecember 2015 $16.95 128
pages Paperback ISBN 978-1-57061-989-2Available wherever ne books
are sold.Sasquatch Books 800/775-0817 www.sasquatchbooks.comQ&A
with Author Veronica DOrazioWho is the best audience for this
book?This book is for adults who have had some experience or
exposure to yoga and gardeners who want specic exer-cises that help
them maintain more exibility and strength for gardening work. It
also makes a lovely gift.How did you choose which poses to include
in which season?I wanted the poses to address the varying physical
demands gardening requires from season to season. I also wanted
each of the four sequences to reect the energetic quality or spirit
of its corresponding season. For instance, the spring sequence is
exuberant; the postures emphasize reaching and lengthening,
spiraling and unfurling, and rooting and openingall movements that
mirror the vibrancy of the season. In contrast, the summer postures
are low to the ground and emphasize slowly opening and lengthening.
Many of them are practiced on your back, reecting the relaxed,
open-petaled quality to the warmer months. Lastly, I wanted all of
the sequences to link together seamlessly, beginning with winter
and ending with autumn. The sequencing allows you to do one long
practice from start to nish, instead of dividing the postures
between four separate chapters.Why does the book use illustration
instead of photography?Nearly all of the yoga books in print use
photography. I loved the idea of having something unique to offer:
a beautiful book that would be instructive but also accessible,
where you could see the artists hand in the work and the themes and
metaphors in the language reminded you of how organic yogas
movements and shapes are. Fridas drawings show people in yoga
postures, (MORE)SASQUATCH BOOKS1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 SEATTLE,
WASHINGTON 98101206/467-4300 TOLL FREE 800/775-0817 FAX
206/467-4301www.sasquatchbooks.combut they are always surrounded
byand often outsized byillustrations of plants and owers. For me,
there is a beautiful humility to this, a reminder that humans have
not been on earth very long and that our relationship with the
natural world should be kept in scale.What inspires you as a yoga
instructor?I look at owers a lot and spend a lot of time hanging
out with my cats. I love studying how poems can say everything with
so few words. I read a lot of contemporary poetry and like to share
it with my students. The relationship between words and silence is
probably my favorite thing about teaching. I love trying to nd
clear, precise language to direct my students, and I love trying to
determine when it is best to be quiet, and for how long. My
education is in English, so the names of the yoga postures really
appeal to my love for metaphor and story. The clue to how to do a
pose correctly is often in the name itself: if you want to do
tortoise pose or rabbit or cobra, you can think carefully about
what they look like. How would they move? What might it feel like
to be them? I love encouraging my students to embody the names as
they move into the postures. These kinds of questions encourage so
much playfulness and imagination and a personal relationship with
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