Product Description

Nicolai Bachman teaches you how to read and pronounce these sacred sounds with precision, and guides you through seven yoga chants with exact rhythm, tone, and pronunciation. This is an indispensable reference guide for any serious student of yoga.

"... should, without doubt, be in the yoga library of every teacher and serious student." - Yoga Journal

This program is comprehensive and draws from the 3 major lineages of T. Krishnamacarya (Iyengar, Jois, Desikachar). This covers the vast majority of asanas practiced in the West includes almost every common Sanskrit word related to yoga. Enjoy chants from each tradition along with other popular yoga chants. Learn with audio and visual components reinforce each other serves as a teaching guide and reference manual consists of a hard-over-spiral-bound book with 2 full audio CDs inside.

Nicolai Bachman has accomplished a monumental task in producing Asana Names and the Language of Yoga. Effectively organized, clear, and breathtakingly comprehensive, Nicolai's work is necessary for all yoga students who aspire to learn the Sanskrit sounds of yoga.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4026 in Books
• Brand: Sounds True
• Published on: 2005-12-30
• Format: Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 139 pages

Features

• Finally, a tool to help yoga teachers and students pronounce asana names and yoga terms correctly!
• The Language of Yoga is the definitive A-Y of yoga specific words. (There is no Z in Sanskrit)
• Useful for yoga teachers and students

Review
"A must for all teachers and serious students of yoga." -- Fit Yoga, August 2006

"Nicholai Bachman has done a great service to the yoga community." -- Yoga International, March 2005

"Sanskrit scholar Nicholai Bachman gives us the opportunity to connect with yoga's spiritual roots through translations and a comprehensive dictionary." -- Body + Soul magazine, September 2006

"Should, without a doubt, be in the yoga library of every teacher and serious student." -- Yoga Journal, February 2005

About the Author
Nicolai Bachman, MA, RYT has been teaching Sanskrit and related topics since 1994. He has studied at the American Sanskrit Institute, graduated from the Ayurvedic Institute and received his M.A. in Eastern Philosophy from St. John's College. He has produced several Sanskrit audio/visual-learning tools including 108 Sanskrit Flash Cards and Asana Names and the Language of Yoga. Nicolai currently teaches Sanskrit, Chanting, Yoga Philosophy and Ayurveda while pursuing a graduate degree in Nutrition. Nicolai teaches in Santa Fe and throughout the country wherever there are eager and interested students. He is registered with Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level.

Customer Reviews

Yoga study must
I have found this book very useful, informative and easy to use. I have found it a great aid in my yoga studies.

I loved this book
Easy to read, easy to understand. I couldn't put this book down.
If you have an interest in yoga and would like to know and understand the Asana Names.... you should get this.
I am not a yoga teacher, but I would also like to recomend this to anybody who does teach yoga. If for no other reason so you can say the worrds correctly and aslo be able to answer questions from students (like myself) who wish to know the what and why of asanas and chants.

Truly a "must" for non-Indian yoga teachers
I can't believe I have never reviewed this before! I've been a yoga teacher for - oh yikes, way too long to admit to but until I listened to the CDs that come with this book, I had been pronouncing things incorrectly. I guess my teachers learned the wrong pronounciation from others who didn't know...and on it goes. But my students know the difference now; hopefully, they will pass it on as some of them become teachers.
I've also used the book for tattoos. Just enlarge the writing for the artist...perfect.
Namaste