From Alignment to Enlightenment: Using Props to Achieve Stability and Ease in Yoga Poses contains valuable information for yoga teachers and beginners or experienced students alike. With 120 photographs showing common yoga pose misalignments and how to correct them by using props, the book illustrates fundamental insights. It provides detailed information on the physical and energetic bodies, with effects of the poses on the chakras, and prana vayus, as well as on the nature of the pose as "calming" or "energizing." Written by experienced yoga teachers and trainers, this book covers the key fundamentals you'd hope to find in a top yoga training program. Using these modifications, yoga poses will become more effective for inner and outer transformation, as well as safer and more comfortable than ever before. In this book, you'll learn how to: Identify common misalignments in yoga poses Identify the fundamentals of stable alignment Use props to modify poses to cultivate safety, stability, effectiveness, and ease Incorporate the energetics of yoga into your sequences, through the chakras and prana vayus, to create a practice that specifically addresses your intentions If you want to make your yoga practices more stable, easeful and effective, both physically and energetically, this book is for you.