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Yoga Therapy is a revolutionary new approach to working with some of the most common physical and mental ailments. Combining yoga postures with the latest in conventional and alternative medical treatments, each book in the Yoga Therapy series presents a fresh, effective approach to healing.

Yoga Therapy for Headache Relief contains extensive information on how to use yoga postures as an aid in healing, useful conventional and alternative treatments to supplement your practice, plus a variety of additional tips, techniques, and tools. Yoga Therapy is easy-to-use, succinct, and requires no prior knowledge or practice of yoga.

This is actually the very first book that deals with yoga as a crucial part of the headache treatment, referring to it as a great alternative and permanent option to all the other treatments available on the market. The books refers to a wide range of topics related to yoga and headaches, the connection between the healing some effective routines provide, the recommended yoga postures that enable the best results, some prescription and non-prescription medical therapies that are said to work and a useful bibliography for those interested in even more reading on the topic.

Peter Van Houten, M.D. the author of the book and the founder of the Sierra Family Medical Clinic is also a Primary Care Physician practitioner and has graduated the UCSF medical school is a world-wide known figure for over two decades. Thus, the trust of the readers will certainly be boosted knowing the degree of expertise that the author of the book has in the medical field.

While there are many yoga books on the market today, little has been written about yoga as a personal-growth tool, this book shows readers how to use this unique blend of yoga and psychology to bridge the gap between body and soul. Photos.

This book gave great me great insight into using yoga in not just the physical realm. Having been part of my Ayurveda and Yoga workshop it added another dimension of being able to take yoga and discover what lies beyond the surface of our ego.

In the 1980s, author Michael Lee gained great insight and awareness about himself and life while doing yoga. He sensed that his body was a port of entry to a deeper level of awareness and realized that yoga transformed him mentally and spiritually as well as physically. Wanting to help others gain from his experiences, he founded the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy program. Named after the mythical bird that burns itself on the funeral pyre and rises from the ashes transformed, the program is a powerful mind/body system of interwoven postures and non-directive theraphy that has helped thousands of people achieve inner peace and fulfillment. In this fascinating book based on Lee’s internationally acclaimed program, you will find an essential guide to achieving spiritual balance and living in the present moment. Through exercises and meditations, you will learn how to recognize and then release the body-stored memories, fears and traumas that trap you in the past. You will discover how to embrace your daily joys and fears to live your life to the fullest and findy your own true self. Like the phoenix, you will rise from the ashes harmonized in body, mind and spirit.

Stress is now considered the foremost contributor to poor health and a major factor in causing heart disease, cancer, and a myriad of chronic and acute diseases. This book will make yoga a fundamental part of your quest for wellness and well-being, whether you are a novice or a current pactitioner. Nischala Joy Devi, a pioneer in the field of alternative healing and a renowned yoga expert, has spent years helping people realize the healthful and stress-controlling benefits of yoga. In 1982 she developed yoga-based retreats for Dr. Michael Lerner’s now famous Commonweal Cancer Help Program. That same year Dr. Dean Ornish asked her to create a program of yoga practices for patients suffering from heart disease. Yoga’s contribution to the success of both programs has been astounding. Devi shares her years of experience working with the healthful benefits of yoga, teaching visualizations, breathwork, and meditation, as well as providing the classic steps and illustrated instructions for yoga’s physical poses. The Healing Path of Yoga uses timeless Indian-based yoga techniques and philosophy, along with Devi’s lifestyle-altering regimen, to create one extraordinary program with the power to rejuvenate and heal. The Healing Path of Yoga presents the key to:preventing disease and stress in healthy people aiding in recovery from heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses physical conditioning and weight loss deep, healing relaxation techniques heightened overall wellness of body, mind, and spirit From the Trade Paperback edition.

Nischala Joy Devi, a pioneer in the field of alternative healing and a renowned yoga expert, has spent years helping people realize the healthful and stress-controlling benefits of yoga. In 1982 she developed yoga-based retreats for Dr. Michael Lerner’s now famous Commonweal Cancer Help Program. That same year Dr. Dean Ornish asked her to create a program of yoga practices for patients suffering from heart disease. Yoga’s contribution to the success of both programs has been astounding.

Yoga therapy is gaining rapid recognition as a form of treatment that can improve the physical and mental wellbeing of children with a variety of complex needs. This book contains a specially-designed yoga program for use with children of all abilities, and provides both parents and professionals with the knowledge they need to carry out the therapy themselves.

The program consists of a series of postures, each of which is explained and accompanied by an illustration. The postures are designed to help children understand and use their bodies, and work towards positive changes such as realigning the spine, encouraging eye-contact, and promoting calm and steady breathing. Consideration is given to creating the right setting for carrying out the therapy, assessing an individual child’s particular needs, and making the sessions fun using games and props. Sections on yoga therapy for specific conditions such as autistic spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy are included, and the book concludes with child and parent reports on how the program has worked for them, and a list of useful contacts and resources.

Nancy Williams has been a yoga therapist for 9 years. During this time, she has worked with children with a wide range of special needs, including Autism Spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, sensory integration disorder and Down’s syndrome. Nancy also works as a pediatric Speech Pathologist, and is a certified Neuro Developmental Treatment Therapist, Zero Balancing practitioner, Yoga instructor and Reiki Master Teacher. Nancy owns Therapeutic Bodyworks, a studio in Tucson, Arizona where she teaches yoga therapy classes to individual and small groups of children. Nancy also offers consultations and conducts training.

Go beyond the yoga revolution to find greater meaning in everyday life.We can do more with this life. We all know it, we all wish for it, but just how to do it-that eludes us. In his new book, A Life Worth Breathing, internationally renowned yoga teacher and spiritual philosopher Max Strom shows us the way. His groundbreaking book reaches past expected dogma in a language that is vital, inspired, and accessible. Strom leads us on a journey of self-discovery as we excavate our past in order to have a better understanding of our present.

With this book, Max Strom makes an invaluable contribution to the existing yoga literature. In a very practical way, he shows us how different yoga practices can work to counteract the modern plagues of sleeplessness, anxiety, depression, and apathy. This book includes an extensive discussion of ethics and the importance of living one’s life, on and off the mat, with a “code” — leading by example, or in the words of Gandhi, being the change one wishes to see. The book’s philosophy is universal and ecumenical: Strom draws on traditional yogic teachings and also early Christianity, Buddhism, Sufism, and Taoism.