Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing-Quality Guarantee

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The definitive book of yoga therapy, this groundbreaking work comes to you from themedical editor of the country’s premier yoga magazine, who is both a practicing yogiand a Western-trained physician.

Beginning with an overview of the history andscience of yoga, Dr. McCall describes the many different techniques in the yoga toolkit; explains what yoga does and who can benefit from it (virtually everyone!); andprovides lavishly illustrated and minutely detailed instructions on starting a yogapractice geared to your fitness level and your health status. Yoga as Medicine offersa wealth of practical information, including how to:

•Utilize yogic tools, includingpostures, breathing techniques, and meditation, for both prevention and healing ofillness
•Master the art of becoming more in tune with your body
•Communicate moreeffectively with your doctor
•Adopt therapeutic yoga practices as either an alternativeor a complement to surgery and to expensive, sometimes dangerous medications
•Practicesafely

Find an instructor and a style of yoga that are right for you. With twentychapters devoted to the work of individual master teachers, including such well-knownfigures as Patricia Walden, John Friend, and Rodney Yee, Yoga as Medicine shows howthese experts have applied the wisdom of this ancient holistic practice to twentydifferent conditions, ranging from arthritis to chronic fatigue, depression, heartdisease, HIV/AIDS, infertility, insomnia, multiple sclerosis, and obesity. Definingyoga as “a systematic technology to improve the body, understand the mind, and freethe spirit,” Dr. McCall shows the way to a path that can truly alter your life.

An indispensable guide for the millions who now practice yoga or would like tobegin, as well as for yoga teachers, body workers, doctors, nurses, and other healthprofessionals.