Science of Yoga is the book I wanted to read when I first started practicing yoga. In classes, teachers offer
(sometimes conflicting) cues and claims—“Calm your nervous system by elongating your exhales;” “This
pose will boost your immunity;” “Align your knee over your ankle”—and I constantly wondered, “Why?”
For the past decade, through workshops, reading research papers, and completing my Master of Science
in yoga therapy at Maryland University of Integrative Health, I have continued to fill my notebooks with
facts, figures, sketches, and stories. Science of Yoga summarizes the notes I found most fascinating as a
yoga student and teacher. This book is intended as neither a comprehensive text on human anatomy and
yoga,