Open your yoga practice to every body with this essential guide to accessible chair yoga. Based in the author's years of experience working with amputees and people with disabilities of all types, the book expands the movement vocabulary, creating space to adapt poses and movements for your students' unique accessibility needs. From backbends ......
Supplemented with case studies and clinical evidence, aromatherapists can benefit from real-life examples of unique client profiles that often involve important experiences and specific needs, such as menopause, pregnancy, trauma, and anxiety.
Going beyond the practical technicalities, this in-depth manual delves into the founding principles and philosophy of Shiatsu on a technical, cultural, energetic, and conceptual level. Split into three parts and based on two decades of international experience, Ivan Bel first returns to the basic technical principles of Shiatsu, then explores the ......
Analysing Common Drugs through the Lens of Chinese Medicine
This integrative text weaves western medical understanding into the framework of Chinese medicine, allowing practitioners to confidently make sense of how the energetics of pharmaceuticals impact their treatment plans. It delves into the most common illnesses for which medicines are prescribed, including diabetes, mood disorders, hormonal ......
This user-friendly book will guide the reader to understand how Balanced Ligamentous Tension (BLT) can be used as a therapeutic principle in the practice of osteopathy. BLT is seen by many as an indispensable bridge between the better known 'structural' and 'cranial' approaches and is an essential part of the osteopathic heritage. In using 'the ......
Examining the treatment of hot flashes in menopause through an integrative lens, this book combines Chinese medicine approaches - including acupuncture and herbal medicine - with current Western frameworks of research. It covers pathophysiology, diagnosis, current research and adjunctive therapies, and suggests a fresh and interlinked approach to ......
With the right, trauma-sensitive approach, yoga therapy can help heal individuals with Complex Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD). This book presents an integrative model of yoga therapy for the treatment of complex trauma, which results from repeated or prolonged traumatic events. The model focuses on five key elements, with panchamaya kosha at ......
A Holistic Guide to Supporting Women on their Menopause Journey
Bringing together western medical science and eastern wellbeing for menopause education, this book helps yoga teachers develop their understanding of menopause and women's health as well as support their students. Petra Coveney - creator of Menopause Yoga (TM) -shares yoga, breath and meditation practices, poses, and CBT and self-enquiry methods ......
Cultivating a Graceful and Fulfilling Life through the Virtues of Water and Dao Yin Therapeutic Movement
Drawing on South and East Asian philosophies and medicines, this book illustrates how our bodies and minds are influenced by our actions, habits, aging, trauma and thought patterns.
