2,100 Asanas: The Complete Yoga Poses Hardcover – November 10, 2015

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!

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.

The effort and knowledge put into this book…..it should easily be $100. But it’s only $22. None of these poses are lame or unnecessary, they are all authentic yoga poses. It is extremely inspiring and motivating and I’m so excited to add new poses to my flows and I feel like I will never run out now!

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.

This book is so informative and educational, and I know that this book will definitely lead me in the right direction on my yoga and fitness journey. My twin sister and I have learned so many poses, and I feel so good.

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.

This is a fantastic book. Love all the poses and their modifications. This is a very comprehensive book on poses. The only thing that would make it better is it the book had Gif or video showing the poses in a male body, a female body, a senior body, and a pregnant body. Or if it had muscle chart showing the muscles that are contracted and expanded, active or passive, what tendon and joints are involved. Think outside the paper page and conceive of how books may be better in the digital space. This guide is worth investment and yet still so many steps to go to become GOAT.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: March 9, 2018This is a great reference book while working towards injury recovery. It's great to see so many pose variations for beginners. For example, the 'easy one-legged king pigeon pose 1' on page 376 is great for people working towards the 'one-legged king pigeon pose 1 preparation' on page 377. Getting deeper stretches for certain muscles have been a goal towards my recovery along with regular r8 roller usage for my Piriformis and Psoas muscle. This reference book allows me to share rookie stretches with elderly friends.Having reviewed every pictured pose, I've already noticed a few of stretches that could use better form presentation.Having no background in Yoga, I can only hope that all data in this book is accurate for learning this discipline.EDIT: March 13, 2018I've been putting together my own routine with pictures. The alternative english pose names really help.However, I have noticed that spelling isn't always correct such as on pages 682 and 683 where Muktyasana is also spelled Muktasana respectively. I have noticed many uses of '...yasana'. Perhaps, that's just how sanskrit goes..