SASQUATCH BOOKS1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101206/467-4300 TOLL FREE 800/775-0817 FAX 206/467-4301www.sasquatchbooks.comRELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 1, 2015Contact Haley Stocking, Publicist 206/826-4318 hstocking@sasquatchbooks.com 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 owers, 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 nished 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. (MORE)Gardeners Yoga40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden FlowVeronica DOrazio, illustrations by Frida ClementsAbout the AuthorVeronica D'Orazio is a yoga instructor and freelance oral designer in Seattle. She is the co-author of Fleurish. About the IllustratorFrida Clements is an illustrator and graphic designer. Her nature-inspired palette complements her distinctive Scandinavian aesthetic, in which ora and fauna are frequent subjects.Praise for the previous edition of Gardeners YogaAttention 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 AccentsThis little book makes an excellent case for melding the ancient disciplines of gardening and yoga.HortIdeasThese are gentle yoga poses that promote tranquility and revitalize your energies, as well as prepare your muscles for gardening.The Seattle TimesGardeners and exercise fans will nd much to love here.Statesman JournalSASQUATCH BOOKS1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101206/467-4300 TOLL FREE 800/775-0817 FAX 206/467-4301www.sasquatchbooks.com

Gardeners Yoga 40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden FlowVeronica DOrazio, illustrations by Frida ClementsDecember 2015 $16.95 128 pages Paperback ISBN 978-1-57061-989-2Available wherever ne books are sold.Sasquatch Books 800/775-0817 www.sasquatchbooks.comQ&A with Author Veronica DOrazioWho 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 specic exer-cises that help them maintain more exibility 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 reect 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, reecting 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 nish, 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, (MORE)SASQUATCH BOOKS1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101206/467-4300 TOLL FREE 800/775-0817 FAX 206/467-4301www.sasquatchbooks.combut they are always surrounded byand often outsized byillustrations of plants and owers. 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 owers 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 nd 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. SASQUATCH BOOKS1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101206/467-4300 TOLL FREE 800/775-0817 FAX 206/467-4301www.sasquatchbooks.com