The Big Yoga Wall Book, Paperback/Deanna D. Aliano

Yoga walls are popping up in yoga studios all around the world. They assist with body awareness, alignment, stretching, balance, strength and supported inversions. Using a simple set up on your door, you can recreate many of the exercises in this book. Yoga teachers will benefit by finding new ways to help their students find body awareness and depth of practice. Deanna takes her almost 20 years of experience teaching Yoga and Pilates and helps find modifications and challenges using the yoga wall ropes and sling. Most of the exercises in this book can be utilized by people with limited mobility, seniors, athletes, kids and prenatal students (with care and modification). Practitioners will find more body awareness, deeper opening, a stronger core and much more About the Author Deanna is a dedicated holistic health practitioner. She began her training as a massage therapist, learning anatomy, physiology and biomechanics. She was trained as a full Pilates instructor, offering individual sessions and classes on the main Pilates training equipment and mat. She is trained in Thai Yoga massage and has practiced it for 15 years. Her journey into yoga began while taking Iyengar based classes, which appealed to her because of the strong attention to alignment and modifications. She went on to study various forms of yoga, including Asthanga, Viniyoga, Sivinanda, Bikram, Kripalu and Baptiste before she decided to do her teacher training with Sri Dharma Mittra in New York. She has studied with Allison West, Sadie Nardini, Todd Norian, Raji Thron, Street Yoga, and more, and is proud to be a certified AiRealYoga teacher under Carmen Curtis. Deanna specializes in teaching asana practice with a high degree of alignment and attention to the core, while infusing fun and lightheartedness into the practice. Deanna is available for workshops, trainings and talks. Please contact her via [email protected]. Follow @DeannaDYoga on Instagram and Vimeo for free mini classes on technique. Full classes are also available.