RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 1, 2015

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Gardeners Yoga
40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden Flow
Veronica DOrazio, illustrations by Frida Clements


Back sore from planting seeds? Knees tired from weeding?
Soothe stiff joints and muscles with Gardeners Yoga: 40 Yoga
Poses to Help Your Garden Flow by Veronica DOrazio
(Sasquatch Books; $16.95; December 2015). The perfect
remedy for long hours in the garden, this fully updated book
contains new poses and beautiful illustrations by
Frida Clements.
These yoga posesdivided into seasonal sequences, or
flowsaddress the gardeners body, guiding readers through
postures to find ease and comfort throughout the year. I
wanted the poses to address the varying physical demands gardening requires from season to season,
says author and yoga instructor Veronica DOrazio. For example, in autumn, gardeners harvest crops,
tidy and prune the frayed ends of plants and flowers, and prepare the garden for winter. There is a lot of
stooping, hauling, and lifting to rake, mulch, deadhead, and more. By emphasizing poses that open the
shoulders and soothe the low back, the autumn sequence helps gardeners move through this season
more easefully.

When gardeners are finished making peace with the earth, Gardeners Yoga helps them make

peace with their bodies to alleviate the aches that come from digging, pulling, and carrying.

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About the Author

Veronica D'Orazio is a yoga instructor and freelance floral designer in Seattle. She is the coauthor of Fleurish.
About the Illustrator
Frida Clements is an illustrator and graphic designer. Her nature-inspired palette complements
her distinctive Scandinavian aesthetic, in which flora and fauna are frequent subjects.

Gardeners Yoga
40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden Flow
Veronica DOrazio, illustrations by Frida Clements
December 2015 $16.95 128 pages Paperback
ISBN 978-1-57061-989-2
Available wherever fine books are sold.
Sasquatch Books 800/775-0817 www.sasquatchbooks.com

Praise for the previous edition of Gardeners Yoga

Attention gardeners: tired of achy knees, stiff joints, and sore elbows from pulling, weeding,
planting, and growing? Your love of tilling, nurturing, and harvesting from the earth doesnt need
to keep you as stiff as a pretzel! Based on her two loves, Veronica DOrazio has compiled a book
of yoga poses to ease the bothersome aches and pains of gardeners.
Country Accents
This little book makes an excellent case for melding the ancient disciplines of gardening and
yoga.
HortIdeas
These are gentle yoga poses that promote tranquility and revitalize your energies, as well as
prepare your muscles for gardening.
The Seattle Times
Gardeners and exercise fans will find much to love here.
Statesman Journal
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Q&A with Author Veronica DOrazio

Who is the best audience for this book?
This book is for adults who have had some experience or
exposure to yoga and gardeners who want specific exercises that help them maintain more flexibility and strength
for gardening work. It also makes a lovely gift.
How did you choose which poses to include in
which season?
I wanted the poses to address the varying physical
demands gardening requires from season to season. I also
wanted each of the four sequences to reflect the energetic quality or spirit of its corresponding
season. For instance, the spring sequence is exuberant; the postures emphasize reaching and
lengthening, spiraling and unfurling, and rooting and openingall movements that mirror the
vibrancy of the season. In contrast, the summer postures are low to the ground and emphasize
slowly opening and lengthening. Many of them are practiced on your back, reflecting the
relaxed, open-petaled quality to the warmer months. Lastly, I wanted all of the sequences to link
together seamlessly, beginning with winter and ending with autumn. The sequencing allows you
to do one long practice from start to finish, instead of dividing the postures between four
separate chapters.
Why does the book use illustration instead of photography?
Nearly all of the yoga books in print use photography. I loved the
idea of having something unique to offer: a beautiful book that
would be instructive but also accessible, where you could see the
artists hand in the work and the themes and metaphors in the
language reminded you of how organic yogas movements and
shapes are. Fridas drawings show people in yoga postures,

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but they are always surrounded byand often outsized byillustrations of plants and flowers.
For me, there is a beautiful humility to this, a reminder that humans have not been on earth very
long and that our relationship with the natural world should be kept in scale.
What inspires you as a yoga instructor?
I look at flowers a lot and spend a lot of time hanging out with my cats. I love studying how
poems can say everything with so few words. I read a lot of contemporary poetry and like to
share it with my students. The relationship between words and silence is probably my favorite
thing about teaching. I love trying to find clear, precise language to direct my students, and I love
trying to determine when it is best to be quiet, and for how long. My education is in English, so
the names of the yoga postures really appeal to
my love for metaphor and story. The clue to how
to do a pose correctly is often in the name itself:
if you want to do tortoise pose or rabbit or cobra,
you can think carefully about what they look
like. How would they move? What might it feel
like to be them? I love encouraging my students
to embody the names as they move into the
postures. These kinds of questions encourage
so much playfulness and imagination and a
personal relationship with the practice.

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