About this item
Yoga for Hikers will show you how to create a yoga practice at home that will keep you healthy, prevent injuries, and support and improve your outdoor passions. This guide features easy-to-understand yoga poses and sequences designed to address the specific stresses that hiking enacts on the body.
About the Author
For more than six years, Nicole Tsong wrote the popular "Fit for Life" column in The Seattle Times, published in Pacific NW Magazine. Nicole is the author of "Yoga for Hikers" and "Yoga for Climbers" with Mountaineers Books, and has taught yoga for more than a decade, including for three years at the White House Easter Egg Roll. In addition to writing, Nicole founded a work/life balance coaching business, supporting high-achieving women master radical change. A former journalist, Nicole has lived and worked in Anchorage, Alaska, Washington D.C. and Walla Walla, Washington, covering topics ranging from the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to a U.S. Senate race.Raised in Chicago, Nicole was first introduced to the mountains during a dinosaur dig in Moab, Utah in high school. Her love of hiking and mountains took off as a student at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., where she majored in comparative literature. After a stint teaching English to college students in Wuhan, China, Nicole moved to the West Coast and has called it home ever since. She now lives in Seattle, where you can find her out in the mountains with her pup Coco, playing violin, and loving on her houseplants. Reach out at nicoletsong.com.
