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Yoga for Scuba Divers

Practice on land to build strength, increase your air efficiency, and become a better diver

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Yoga for Scuba Divers teaches you poses, breathing exercises, visualization techniques, and yoga lifestyle principles that combine to make you a better diver. By practicing the yoga poses in this book you can: improve your balance and stability, build core strength to protect your back when carrying tanks and weights, build abdominal control to fine-tune your buoyancy, strengthen your legs for those fun walks down to the water in full gear, and develop powerful muscles that improve your finning. The breathing exercises will teach you to breathe steadily during physical exertion, which will keep you calm and rational under water. The visualization techniques will help you prepare mentally for dive challenges. You will also learn yoga principles, such as non-violence, and how they apply to scuba divers. All of the poses in Yoga for Scuba Divers are practiced on land, not in the water.

About the authors

Todd Stedl is a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor and holds a doctorate in chemistry. Kimberlee Jensen Stedl is a member of the American Council on Exercise Continuing Education Faculty, and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. Together they have been diving and practicing yoga since they met in 2002.

See sample pages:

• Introductory pages including Table of Contents
• Dancer Pose (strength & flexibility)
• Boat Pose (core strength)
• Visualization 1: Enjoying a smooth dive
• Front cover
• Back cover

Great for your new year's resolution: Did you resolve to take better care of your health, including learning how to relax, this year? Yoga for Scuba Divers is a great book to get you started.

Book is available online at:

• Lulu.com
• Major online booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Powell's

Book is available in person at:

• East West Yoga, New York, NY
• Gull Dive Center, Missoula, MT
• Maui Dreams Dive Co, Kihei, HI
• The Union Yoga Center, Toronto, ON

Dive shops and yoga studios: Contact us for wholesale pricing at DoYoga@8thElementYoga.com or 206-883-8172

Announcing our Scuba Diving and Yoga Adventure -- March 7 - 14, 2009 in Dominica

We we be staying at an eco resort on the abundant island of Dominica. This trip features gorgeous diving at a marine preserve, invigorating hiking and kayaking opportunities, a whale watch trip, evening cultural programs, yoga classes designed for scuba divers, and includes a massage.

Free brochure on how yoga can help your scuba diving

We're offering a free brochure on how yoga can help your scuba diving, including special tips on improving your surface air consumption (SAC) rate. Please send us your name and address and we will mail one to you right away. E-mail DoYoga@8thElementYoga.com.