Then, as you build your practice, you can take on more challenging poses.

The yoga poses for beginners that are outlined here are valuable enough to keep you occupied for a long time. It's a good idea to keep things simple when you're just starting.

Mindfully and with conscious breaths, learn beginner yoga poses first. Many basic yoga postures feel very familiar because our bodies bend and fold naturally into poses. And remember that your yoga practice is a lifelong pursuit-giving you plenty of time to learn scores of postures. If you got out of bed this morning and stretched your arms over your head, you already did a yoga pose. Informed by twelve years of meticulous archival research, as well as familiarity with most of the former Party leadership and many rank-and-file members, this book is the definitive history of one of the greatest challenges ever posed to American state power.As a new yoga student, you might feel overwhelmed by the number of poses and their odd-sounding names. Bold, engrossing, and richly detailed, this book cuts through the mythology and obfuscation, revealing the political dynamics that drove the explosive growth of this revolutionary movement and its disastrous unraveling. The authors analyze key political questions, such as why so many young black people across the country risked their lives for the revolution, why the Party grew most rapidly during the height of repression, and why allies abandoned the Party at its peak of influence.

Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. cities and powerful allies around the world. In the face of intense repression, the Party flourished, becoming the center of a revolutionary movement with offices in sixty-eight U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the United States, the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities.

Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom