Have you been missing your mat and meditation time at your favourite studio due to Covid-19?

Good news, our online library can help.

Library staff have searched our resources and found eBooks, eMagazines and eMovies, all available free with your library card from library website 24/7.

Kanopy is more than just movies, you can watch hundreds of documentaries and instructional videos for free as well. Here are two yoga videos trialled by staff recently.

Chair Yoga.

This 40-minute yoga video will suit beginners and experienced yogis. Clear, simple instructions with options for those who may find getting on the floor difficult.

Power Yoga.

This 30-minute yoga video provides the yogi with information about the different types of yoga practises, a brief history of poses and health benefits of the practise before the yoga segment begins. This yoga is a little faster than the chair yoga, though instructions were still clear and simple.

And you can press pause at any time.

There are many other yoga videos, that you can add to a watchlist once you have logged in with your MRL library card number and PIN.

To see what is available go to online library at www.mrl.nsw.gov.au/efilms

Breathe and relax into meditation to compliment your yoga practice. There are a number of eAudiobooks on meditation via BorrowBox website or app.

Enter meditation in the search field and you will find them all.

Here are a few titles to try this week:

To check out these titles or search for others, go to the online library at www.mrl.nsw.gov.au/online-library/eaudiobooks

Did you know you can access NSW State Library eResources with your MRL library card?

There is a wide range of eMagazines available through the Press Reader database.

Accessible from this database is full text version of The Yoga Journal (March/April 2020), which has an informative article about the benefits of strength training gained from yoga practice and features 41 yoga poses to follow at your own pace.

Also available is the latest edition of Australian Women's Health highlighting poses to boost your energy, reduce stress, enhance focus and improve your sleep.

Discover these magazines when you select NSW State Library eResources www.mrl.nsw.gov.au/online-library/databases

You will find lots of great eBook reads in this database. Library staff found the following titles using yoga for kids in the search field.

Go to www.mrl.nsw.gov.au/online-library/databases and select eBook Public Library Collection Library Info

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