Yoga
Therapy
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Description: This is a book intended for serious teachers
and practitioners who want to use yoga to bring complete balance
and harmony to their bodies. It is written to help people
understand, in detail, how the yoga postures impact affect
the structure of the body.
Readers
will learn "body reading" to determine what posture reveals
about their body alignment and muscular imbalances. Author
Mukunda Stiles shares his extensive knowledge of kinesiology,
joint mobility and muscle strength. One of the highlights
of the book is its extensive information on joint freeing
exercises, which which may be of interest to people with stiff,
unbalanced and immobile joints.
Description:
Videos, books and doctors all too often suggest ways to manage
back and neck pain, but not to eliminate it completely. Through
an easy four part program of structural analysis and correction
a series of through yoga based exercises, Overcome Back
and Neck Pain provides ways provide permanent pain relief.
Interesting
Links for Yoga and Health:
Article
on the National Multiple Sclerosis Society site on the benefits
of yoga
for people with MS. Written by Shoosh Crotzer, an exercise
and yoga therapist who specializes in helping people with
chronic diseases. Also see Randomized
controlled trial of yoga and exercise in multiple sclerosis
Yoga-Based
Intervention for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Researchers
from the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that yoga
therapy was more effective than wrist splinting or no treatment
in relieving some symptoms and signs of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Yoga
for Heart Disease
- Researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine
found that people who practice meditation and yoga at least
three times a week may reduce their pules, blood pressure
and decrease their risk of serious heart disease.
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