Overview
What if running isn't something you have to win?
Runners are very good at turning a perfectly pleasant activity into a performance review. We measure pace, mileage, heart rate, personal records, age groups, and the completely innocent runner fifty yards ahead who has no idea they've just entered a race with us.
Yoga has its own nonsense.
Running Is Yoga brings the two practices together-not by giving runners a collection of stretches to do after a workout, but by asking a more interesting question:
What if the run itself is yoga?
Writer, longtime runner, and yoga practitioner Nancy Next takes yoga off the mat and onto the road, exploring how the eight limbs of yoga, breath, attention, non-harming, truthfulness, and self-study can transform the way we run.
Along the way, she takes aim at "no pain, no gain," compulsory body love, running through anger, obsessing over pace, worshipping shoes, fighting the treadmill, and the peculiar human tendency to make exercise one more thing we're failing to do correctly.
This is not a book about becoming faster.
It is about learning to run the body you have, with the energy you have, on the day you have it.
For new runners, former runners, aging runners, slow runners, competitive runners who are tired of competing with everybody, yoga practitioners curious about running, and anyone who has ever looked at a training plan and felt personally judged by it.
The road is your mat.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798174398016
- ISBN-10: 9798174398016
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: November 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.33 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.37 pounds
- Page Count: 130
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