Yoga Fundamentals Handbook

Yoga is often taught as a performance — a series of shapes the body must achieve. Priya Nair has spent twenty years teaching it differently. In this handbook, she returns yoga to what it has always been at its root: a practice of attention, not achievement. The Yoga Fundamentals Handbook covers the full foundation of a lasting practice. You will learn the anatomy behind each major pose, why alignment matters and when it does not, how to breathe in a way that supports rather than fights the body, and how to sequence your own practice based on what you need on a given day rather than following a fixed script. What distinguishes this book is its honesty about difficulty. Priya does not pretend that the hard poses are easy or that discomfort is always growth. She draws a clear line between productive challenge and injury risk, and gives you the tools to know the difference in your own body. The handbook is illustrated throughout with detailed line drawings — not photographs of flexible bodies in perfect light, but clear, clinical illustrations that show you exactly what is happening inside each pose.