With instructions for yoga therapists and yoga teachers on helping to alleviate exhaustion and stress, Fiona Agombar looks at how modern-day living exacerbates stress and its manifestations, the yogic approach to these conditions, the solutions that yoga can provide and helpful practices to help discover more energy and freedom.
This book examines death and loss within Chinese medicine and related Taoist models, offering practical advice for working with frail or dying clients. It considers the different ways that practitioners may encounter death and includes appropriate exercises and meditations, as well as a model for teaching.
Understanding, Learning & Practicing the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method & Hatha Yoga
Focussing on distinct body practice from a range of different methods, Graeme Lynn demonstrates how to use the physical body to encourage general health and wellbeing. Starting with the most basic concepts of movement to more advanced yoga practice, this book will serve as a comprehensive guide to developing the physical body to transform the ......
A Teacher's Guide to Spinal Health through Yoga Therapy
This unique book offers a framework for using yoga therapeutically to heal back and spinal problems. Combining detailed instruction on evaluation and treatment techniques with personal narrative and case studies, Yoga for a Happy Back bridges the gap between practicing yoga for better physical health and ......
Synergistic blending is at the very core of aromatherapy practice. This book explores the concept of synergy and the evidence for its presence and significance, and provides practical guidance on how to build aroma therapeutic blends effectively and safely based on research evidence. The author covers new and exciting developments in research into ......
Jane Wood has been involved in reflective practice for the last 20 years. She keeps her own reflective journal and facilitates reflective practice workshops, seminars and monthly group sessions. She is a supervisor and teacher of reflective practice at the University of Westminster and is the head of practitioner development and reflective ......
Ways to Address Chronic Health Issues and to Improve Your Overall Health Based on Chinese Medicine Techniques
Discover the quick and easy Chinese exercise approach to common daily health problems in this fully-illustrated and easy-to-follow handbook. Based on millennia of effective Chinese medicine and health practice, the Qigong and self-massage techniques described take just a few minutes a day, and can resolve on-going issues such as knee pain, ......
This innovative book makes the benefits of Tai Chi directly available to Westerners by communicating its essence in poetic, evocative, and humorous images that apply not only to movement practices of all kinds but to daily life. The book does not assume any knowledge of Tai Chi forms.The images in this book - drawn from a wide variety of sources, ......
