2,100 Asanas: The Complete Yoga Poses

Love this book and gift to friends frequently. I use it sequencing for fun or ideas for my flows.

I am a yoga teacher and we are told about thousands of yoga poses that exist. However in 500 hours spent in yoga teacher training program. I may say I learned probably a hundreds of yoga poses and I am no where near knowing a thousands of them, let alone 2,100. For that reason I was excited to find this book and buy it. This is why this book is so valuable. It is a great reference book. I ordered my copy in hardcover, so it will not bend or assume unseemly shapes. Book is made of high quality paper and has fantastic photography pictures of each and every pose demonstrated by very experienced practitioners/teachers. Author of the book is Canadian yogi who dedicated his life teaching yoga and he thought yoga to many athletes over his career. Most of the poses are demonstrated by female practitioners but there are a few male practitioners and they all look amazing. Each pose has a name in Sanscrit and English and description of it. I want to thank Daniel Lacerda for creating one of the most precious asana books that compiles all 2,100 poses that I could find in 10 years of practicing yoga. The introduction to the book is vry thoughtful and also gives a brief description of yoga philosophy. People unfamiliar with yoga will be surprised to learn that yoga is so much more than a physical practice.

Beautiful book and gift for anyone who wants to take a yoga practice as far as possible. The full color photos are excellent and show the poses correctly executed. The descriptions are succinct. Each pose has a brief description that identifies the chakras that the pose targets and the emphasis on specific body points. Pose photos are also grouped together from the initial easy pose through its progressive variations of difficulty. Grouping the photos this way allows for fluid movements from pose initiation into its most advanced position based on physical abilities. CAVEAT: the book's not for beginners. The best beginner books are those by Richard Hittleman and available inexpensively on Amazon. Beginners are also well served by attending regular yoga classes designed for beginners and not in mixed ability classes. One of the points of yoga is to work based on physical abilities. Yoga isn't about pain, it's about the daily work of mental and physical progression. Many thanks to Mr. Yoga, Daniel Lacerda, for this comprehensive book. We like it so much that we have 2 copies.

I'm a yoga teacher and this is my favorite yoga book of all. I love learning and teaching new poses and my students seem to enjoy learning new ones too. Most yoga classes seem to stick to the same poses but I enjoy variety. I also love that names of poses are in English and Sanskrit; I hate having to try and find out what a pose written in only Sanskrit means. The photos are all beautiful and not difficult to figure out the body placement, unlike most yoga books. I also love that it's not redundant using lots of pages to explain yogic spiritual beliefs. I wanted a book with lots of new poses, easy to see the poses, and this is it. If it had explained how to get into the poses the book would be soooo thick and heavy and it's already thick and heavy enough. My favorite yoga book with 100 regular yoga poses that explains them the best is Yoga the top 100 best yoga poses. It'd be awesome if the 2100 asanas author put together some books explaining how to get into the poses, I'd buy them. But for now I'm in love with this book and it's going to make yoga practices even more fun.

I gave up on yoga years ago and have just recently gotten back into it. My flexibility is pretty much shot, as should be expected with years of neglecting mobility and yet tightening muscles through exercise. This book was recommended to me for modifications. Clearly, the person who recommended it for modifications defines "modifications" differently than I do (it was an online recommendation). I wanted modifications that would slowly step you into the full pose - modifications that usually use props to aid your flexibility (like using a blocm to reach the floor in triangle). This book does not have that. I would say it shows the "basic" poses as mostly shown here in the States with lots of ways to advance the pose, or adjust the effects on the body. There are lots of variations on the poses, binds to include, etc. Beautiful to look at, but definitely for someone with high flexibility. For me, at my level of flexibility, it will be more of a picture book. I do like that the postures mark which Chakras they affect. I've had a hard time getting that information at times. I also like thay the English and Sanskrit names are included. However a lot of the English names were not the same as the ones I know (actually common with all the different types of yoga). The book is way thicker than I expected. I failed to read the details and that it is 700+ pages. Still happy with my purchase though as it will be a great resource in my future and it is inspiring.

This is an excellent encyclopedia of yoga poses. Every pose has a brief description, a color photo and the name in the English and Sanskrit. All poses are in color using a variety of models, male and female, whose bodies seem to twist in amazing ways. The color photos are large and clear enough to see what is going on--and therefore can be followed. They are all set on a white background. There is an index in the back for both the English popular names and for the Sanskrit names also. Most of the popular names I looked up were there but I could not find a couple of them but I can understand how popular names could vary somewhat. The book is very easy to use and one can go through it and see what other possible poses are there. But before you purchase--think encyclopedia--it is very large and of course comprehensive and physically heavy--you won't be traveling with it. The price was very reasonable for a book of this quality and scale. For the dedicated yoga practitioner, this would be a particularly useful book and a very nice gift too.

Listen, you will NEVER be able to boss-battle this book. It will ALWAYS be a huge resource for you and your practice and is unlikely to catch dust if you're actually curious about expanding your practice. This book has me pretzel-ing (YES ITS A VERB NOW) myself into the weirdest configurations, & I've been surprised by the areas of flexibility I've discovered... as well as the areas of resistance - HOW INSIGHTFUL. It gives solid info on each pose but brief enough to get the gist fast. Just impulse-buy this. I highly doubt you'll remember this purchase as one of life's big regrets.

I've been doing yoga for six months and decided to get a couple books. This one is great, it's more like a few hundred poses with many variations. It's a high quality book for a great price. Some of the poses will make you laugh, think, cry inside or make you want to go further into your practice. Good times!

Il libro è tutto illustrato da fotografie favolose di asanas eseguite da bellissime ragazze dai corpi scolpiti. Le spiegazioni sono stringate ma il libro è un paradiso per gli occhi. Altissima qualità della carta e della stampa. L'introduzione è breve, se volete un manuale più esplicativo ve ne sono di più adatti a quello scopo. Ma vale la pena comprare questo libro, anche solo per lustrarsi la vista ed anche per trovare posizioni diverse e alternative alle solite già conosciute (sono 2100 fotografate!!!!!) In definitiva se avete già altri manuali di base compratelo: è bellissimo.

Je pratique depuis plusieurs années le yoga, ce livre est un vrai recueil de positions mais surtout des variantes des différentes poses. Attention pour les novices je le déconseille il n'y a que très peu d'explications sur les zones de tensions / travail, il n'y a pas n'on plus de pas-à-pas pour les transition de poses. Ce n'est pas un guide ! mais un recueil permettant de personnalisé mes séances. C'est ce que je recherchais: très dépouillé avec de bonnes photos et une multitude de petites variantes. Les postures sont classés par type (debout, assis, équilibre etc..). C'est dans un anglais simple et direct.

I like this book very much because it has more than enough poses to be practiced and also having all types of asanas from basic to advance level and anyone of any age can do , I personally recommend all yoga biginners to start thier yoga journey from this book.

For those of you who have been practicing for some time and are looking for ways to expand your repertoire, challenge yourself and become more creative with your asanas, or even look to poses to aspire to, it is an excellent book. I haven't studied the poses extensively, but there are some that look identical in different sections. I imagine this was a way to fit the number in the title. Not a huge deal for me. Be aware there is not instruction on proper form. It is comprised of pictures, Sanskrit+ English names for the poses, written pose modifications, pose type+ drishti point (where to focus your eyes). It also shows in symbol form which chakras are engaged. There is some explanation of history + philosophy of yoga in the beginning chapters. This isn't the primary focus of the book, so, it is not extensive. Do not look to this book to teach you yoga, I would suggest it to be more of a way to inspire the progression of your practice and have some fun.

thank you so much. It was undamaged and very carefully packaged. A must have book for every yoga instructor.