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Yoga and Parkinson's Disease

A Journey to Health and Healing
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Ease stiffness, improve strength and balance, and relieve stress with gentle, easy yoga postures. Yoga is one of the most beneficial complementary therapies for ParkinsonÌs disease (PD), helping to increase flexibility, correct posture, loosen tight, painful muscles, build confidence, and in general, enhance the quality of life. Peggy van Hulsteyn, who was diagnosed with PD 12 years ago, has experienced these benefits firsthand. In Yoga and Parkinson's Disease, van Hulsteyn draws on her 40-year yoga practice, collaborating with two certified yoga teachers to provide an accessible, easy-to-follow, and encouraging guide for bringing the benefits of yoga into your life, even if you've never done yoga before. Yoga and ParkinsonÌs Disease includes: Step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow photographs Seated and assisted postures for those with limited mobility and unsteadiness Postures that can be done in bed to help you start your day Variations to ensure comfort and safety Tips for making practice easy, approachable, and sustainable And much more "

Author Biography:

Peggy van Hulsteyn is an accomplished author and speaker who has practiced yoga for over four decades. Barbara Gage is a Certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, with training from the Kripalu Yoga Institute in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her classes feature the classical yoga postures, meditation, breathing practices and reading from the sanskrit texts. She has been a yoga teacher for 35 years and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Connie Fisher has studied yoga with Gary Kraftsow, founder of the American Viniyoga Institute. She is a Doctor of Oriental medicine, a massage therapist, and since 2008, a Viniyoga Instructor. In 2012 she became certified in Yoga Therapy from the American Viniyoga Institute in California. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Release date Australia
August 28th, 2013
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Foreword by Scott Sherman
  • With Barbara Gage
  • With Connie Fisher
Pages
144
Dimensions
201x251x15
ISBN-13
9781936303502
Product ID
20955812

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