Emotional Yoga: How the Body Can Heal the Mind

Description

By Bija Bennett
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780684862774
218 pages, 7.00 x 9.00″

Emotional Yoga is meant to engage an individual’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects in order to create health and be an integrated human being. Drawing on her extensive training in yoga therapy, dance, and meditation, the author has created a rich and inspiring resource for instructors and practitioners that offers a broad range of simple body-mind techniques to positively affect emotional wellbeing. She articulates her adaptation of yoga’s eight limbs where each represents a quality of awareness that is potentially present in every emotional experience, and that can be accessed, and describes a full range of teachings and practices for emotional self-healing and growth. Collectively, these qualities and practices lead through a natural cycle of self-transformation that allows alignment of the physical and emotional aspects of self. Techniques of movement, breathing exercise, meditation, lifestyle skills, ritual, gesture, and healing sound are presented with great clarity and simplicity. Beautiful black and white photo illustrations accompany the instructions for the various asanas (postures).