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Yoga Therapy

Practices for Common Ailments
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Best-selling author Mark Stephens gives yoga teachers and students practical yoga-based tools for working with a wide array of common injuries and ailments, from ankle sprains to vertigo From the best-selling author ofTeaching Yoga, Yoga Sequencing,andYoga Adjustmentscomes this essential resource for learning how to adapt yoga practices to best accommodate and heal a wide array of common injuries and ailments. Surveying historical writings on yoga, ayurveda, and scientific medical approaches to health and healing, Mark Stephens distills this received wisdom of ancient and modern practices for more insightful and practical application in today's world. He applies these insights to healing musculoskeletal injuries; promoting a healthy reproductive system; and addressing mental, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. With each health condition, Stephens applies yoga to the most recent evidence-based practices for healing, offering an integral place for yoga in integrative health practices. Yoga Therapyis a practical manual with a systematic approach of considering the nature of each health condition and the specific asanas, pranayamas, and meditations most helpful in healing it. Rather than adopting a narrow medical model of healing as the reduction or elimination of symptoms, Stephens invites yoga theapists, teachers and students to relate to health as a continuous, dynamic process of self-care in which the qualities of personal experience and social connectivity matter. He illustrates that how we live our lives-including our emotional states, nutrition, sleep, relationships, and sense of purpose-is reflected in our sense of balance (or imbalance) and well-being (or disease). Comprehensive, accessible, and informed by Mark Stephens' decades of deep study, practice, and teaching, this will become an indispensable reference.

Author Biography:

Mark Stephens is a dedicated yoga student whose personal experience of yoga's promise to make life better inspires him to share the practice through teaching and scholarly writing. Described byYoga Journalas "the teacher's teacher," Stephens, a certified yoga therapist and member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, is the author of the international best sellersTeaching Yoga,Yoga Sequencing, andYoga Adjustments, which have been published in nine languages. From deep study of yoga history and philosophy, human anatomy and physiology, social and interpersonal dynamics, and Eastern and Western theories of being and consciousness, Stephens brings a nondogmatic, accessible, and integrated perspective to yoga therapy that makes yoga a more refined resource for healthy living. Practicing yoga daily for more than twenty-five years and teaching for more than twenty years, Stephens draws from his prior years in academia, as an education consultant, and as a progressive social change activist to create practical resources for yoga teachers and therapists. In 1997 he founded Yoga Inside Foundation-establishing therapeutic yoga programs in more than 300 schools, treatment centers, and prisons across North America-for which he received Yoga Journal'sfirst annual Karma Yoga Award. Stephens lives in Santa Cruz, California, and teaches globally.
Release date Australia
November 7th, 2017
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
600 black and white photos
Pages
648
Dimensions
202x254x44
ISBN-13
9781623171063
Product ID
26014953

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