Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression
Emotional balance is within your reach—when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, presents an integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. In this book, she offers some of her most important teachings and...
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Emotional balance is within your reach—when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, presents an integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. In this book, she offers some of her most important teachings and practices, including: • restorative yoga sequences designed to balance anxiety and lift depression • breath- and body-centered exercises to calm your mind and energize your body • simple ways to understand your emotional patterns • an overview of the three main obstacles to emotional well-being • five tools for building emotional balance Rooted in classical yoga yet supported by psychology and science, the techniques in this book will help you create progressive and lasting change.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781590307601 (1590307607)
ASIN: 1590307607
Publish date: March 8th 2011
Publisher: Shambhala
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
I'm lucky because I actually get to take yoga classes from this teacher - so I was curious about her book. The execution is a little awkward with some repetition and a few odd bits, but the techniques and information that she imparts are very interesting and helpful. She integrates insight meditat...
Psychologist and yoga teacher Bo Forbes uses the resonance between psychology and yogic philosophy to explain restorative yoga to practitioners and teachers in a manual that includes (but goes far beyond) explaining how to get into and out of the poses. She links anxiety to the rajasic guna, depres...