Yoga For Wellness: Healing With The Timeless Teachings Of Viniyoga

Yoga For Wellness: Healing With The Timeless Teachings Of Viniyoga

Product Description Gary Kraftsows easy-to-follow exercise guide on the physical and spiritual benefits of yoga Healing with the Timeless Teachings of Viniyoga. With more than 1,000 photographs to clearly illustrate each sequence, Gary Kraftsow demonstrates how Yoga can be used to support optimal health and healing for aches and pains throughout the body; digestive and respiratory problems, cardiovascular, lymphatic, and endocrine systems; stress, depression, and mental illness; and more! Amazon.com Review Theres more to yoga than stretching and bending and twisting. In Yoga for Wellness, one of Americas top yoga teachers gives a clinic on the holistic nature of yoga practice, especially in regard to healing and well-being. With over a thousand photographs, Gary Kraftsow covers the basic postures, the specific movements of each posture, and how to sequence postures in a routine. More importantly, he moves from form to function, showing how sequences of postures can alleviate ailments in each system of the body, from lower back pain to hypertension--even depression and multiple sclerosis. In case studies of his own clients, we see how Kraftsows holistic approach has him recommending not only posture prescriptions, but breathing exercises, sound techniques, and visualizations, not to mention such commonly neglected wisdom as eating a healthy breakfast and getting closer to nature. Yoga for Wellness is the rare yoga instruction manual that teaches the basics of yoga while also paying more than just lip service to the original intention of yoga--achieving a balance of mental, physical, and spiritual wellness. --Brian Bruya From Library Journal Viniyoga provides a methodology for creating an individualized yoga program (the tradition adapts postures to individuals rather than vice versa), and Kraftsow has been recognized for his ability to train teachers and therapists in this method. Kraftsows illustrated manual is meant to introduce yoga for all levels in a hands-on manner, but he seems unclear about his audiences background. Part 1, about yoga practice, assumes knowledge of anatomy and familiarity with the postures, while Part 2, about yoga therapy, explains physiology in detail too explicit for the reader of Part 1. Still, someone with previous experience in yoga or movement therapy can benefit from the chapters on adapting postures and creating sequences. Recommended for libraries with large health collections.AElizabeth C. Stewart, Portland, ME Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review the seminal Viniyoga book -- Yoga Journal This book is a definitive bookshelf must-have for the yoga teacher or serious student practitioner... -- Yogachicago.com About the Author Founder of the American Viniyoga Institute, Gary Kraftsow is one of the few Westerners certified to train teachers and therapists in the Viniyoga lineage of T. Krishnamacharya and T. K. V. Desikachar. He conducts seminars and retreats throughout the United States and Europe and makes his home in Maui, Hawaii.