This handbook aims at presenting the connections existing between Yoga and climbing, exploring not only the awareness of body, breath and psychological dynamics, but also contextualizing them in the spiritual path of this millennial discipline. The objective is to show how Yoga techniques can be turned to climbing at a physical and mental level, and to demonstrate that climbing, if experienced with the right attitude, can become itself a form of Yoga.

After an introduction where the bases of Yoga are presented and its connection with climbing is synthetized, the book reserves a substantial part to the description of the most important Yoga positions (Asanas) and several sequences conceived for climbers, explaining in depth their benefit in climbing. Next, different breathing techniques are described (Pranayama) that can be applied to climbing, then the fundamentals of meditation are analysed, as well as how climbing can become a form of meditation in movement. A chapter follows concerning Yoga relaxation techniques and an explanation of how Yoga’s ethical and moral codes (Yama and Niyama) can find an application in the present climbing world. Finally, further investigation takes place in a wide Appendix. This handbook turns to those who search in Yoga a complementary training to improve as climbers, as well as those who are interested in reaching the heart of Yoga and having a deeper vision of their vertical passion. The second edition is a considerable revision and widening of the previous one, in which those who appreciated the first version can find many other techniques and new ideas.