My Back Likes This Book

Mrs. F recently gave me Gardener's Yoga to celebrate the fourth anniversary of our first date (and, handily, the second anniversary of our engagement), and it's been absolutely wonderful. I've had back problems the last couple of years, but I've been able to stave them off by being (mostly) diligent about stretching in the morning. It's a great book for yoga beginners, with simple, straight-forward explanations of the poses and nicely accurate illustrations (and you don't have to be a gardener to enjoy it). It's been just the thing to reinvigorate my morning routine, and it's been much more satisfying than the attempt at a yoga class we took a few weeks ago. That class--Hatha Flow at 8 Limbs Yoga--was just too aerobic for the both of us (and full of too much Downward Dog). But this book is much more about a yoga of slow stretches, which I'm much more into, and it offers suggestions for several different flows of movements depending on the area of the body that you want to work on (and you can do it slowly).