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A world-reknowned teacher shows how Yoga can not only make you feel better - it can make you feel well

Yoga offers a great, low-impact way to increase flexibility and reduce stress. It also provides an alternative or augmentation to mainstream medicine. This classic fully illustrated and easy-to-follow guide draws on both the physical and spiritual components of Yoga therapy to show how you can use Yoga to heal any number of afflictions. Some of the areas covered include:

- Common Aches and Pains: neck and shoulders, upper and lower back, hips and knees
- Chronic Disease: digestive and respiratory problems, cardiovascular, lymphatic, and endocrine systems
- Emotional Health: stress and disease,mental illness, anger, anxiety, and depression

Yoga for Wellness presents specific case studies and specific sequences, which can be adapted to your individual needs. And with photographs illustrating each step of every sequence, it the perfect book for beginners as well as experienced practioners including teachers. 

"I highly recommend this fascinating, practical guide to the ancient art of Yoga." - Mitchell L Gaynor, M.D., Director of the Strang Cancer Prevention Center and author of Sounds of Healing

ISBN-13: 9780140195699

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Date: 10-01-1999

Pages: 352

Product Dimensions: 8.60(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.85(d)

Age Range: 18 Years

Series: Compass

Gary Kraftsow , Founder and Director of the American Viniyoga Institute (AVI®), has been an innovator in the transmission of yoga for health, healing, and personal transformation for over 40 years. He began his study of yoga in India with T.K.V. Deśikācar in 1974 and received a Viniyoga Special Diploma from Viniyoga International in Paris, France in 1988. Gary graduated from Colgate University in 1976 and received his Masters Degree in Psychology and Religion from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Around that time, he opened Maui School of Yoga Therapy. In 1999, he founded the American Viniyoga Institute, LLC. Since then, he has become a renowned speaker and teacher of the Viniyoga methodology at many conferences and schools nationally and internationally. Gary has successfully developed protocol for two National Institutes of Health studies: “Evaluating Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain” and “Yoga Therapy for Generalized Anxiety”, as well for the “Mind-Body Stress Reduction in the Workplace” clinical trial for Aetna Insurance Company. He is the author of two books published by Penguin: Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation, and author of four educational DVD’s: Viniyoga Therapy for Low Back, Sacrum and Hips and Viniyoga Therapy for Upper Back, Neck and Shoulders, Viniyoga Therapy for Depression, and Viniyoga Therapy for Anxiety. He has also produced multiple online workshops: Āsana Unlocked, Pranayama Unlocked, Meditation Unlocked, Yoga Therapy for Depression, Yoga Therapy for Better Sleep, and Yoga Therapy for Anxiety.

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Mitchell L. Gaynor, M.D.

I highly recommend this fascinating, practical guide to the ancient art of yoga. Gary Kraftsow brings the ancient wisdom and techniques to the reader in a clear guide that synthesizes breath, sound and movement. -- ( Mitchell L. Gaynor, M.D., Director, Strang Cancer Prevention Center, and author of Sounds of Healing )

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xv
Part 1 Yoga: A Developmental Approach
Chapter 1 Principles of Practice 3
Introduction to Asana 3
Introduction to Breath 7
Principles of Adaptation 12
The Art and Science of Sequencing 26
Chapter 2 Biomechanics of Movement 35
Stretching the West: An Introduction to Forward Bends 35
Stretching the East: An Introduction to Backward Bends 49
Revolving: An Introduction to Twists 61
Working the Sides: An Introduction to Lateral Bends 72
Lengthening the Core: An Introduction to Extension 85
Active Reversal: An Introduction to Inversion 98
Accomplishing the Peculiar: An Introduction to Balance 114
Part II Yoga: A Therapeutic Approach
Yoga Cikitsa: An Introduction to Yoga Therapy 129
Chapter 3 Common Aches and Pains 135
Skeletal System 135
Muscular System 139
Neck and Shoulders 143
Upper and Lower Back 159
Sacrum, Hips, and Knees 184
Chapter 4 Chronic Disease 203
Digestion and Assimilation 203
Respiratory System 216
Cardiovascular System 231
Lymphatic System and Immunity 245
Endocrine System 257
Nervous System 272
Urinary and Reproductive Systems 286
Chapter 5 Emotional Health 301
The Spaceship Voyager 302
The Limbic Brain 303
Stress and Disease 304
Ancient Insights for Modern Healing 305
Pranayama 306
Yoga Therapy and Mental Illness 307
The Three Primary Energies 308
Anger and Anxiety 308
Depression 316
Beyond Therapy 324
Pronunciation Guide 325
Asana Index 326
Index 329
Contact and Product Order Information 334