Yoga As Medicine

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This groundbreaking work, authored by a practicing yogi and Western-trained physician, serves as a definitive guide to yoga therapy. It begins with an overview of yoga's history and science, detailing various techniques and their benefits for virtually everyone. The book provides illustrated, detailed instructions for starting a yoga practice tailored to individual fitness levels and health statuses. It offers practical information on utilizing yogic tools—such as postures, breathing techniques, and meditation—for illness prevention and healing. Readers will learn to become more in tune with their bodies, communicate effectively with healthcare providers, and adopt therapeutic yoga practices as alternatives or complements to surgery and medications. With twenty chapters featuring insights from renowned master teachers like Patricia Walden, John Friend, and Rodney Yee, the book demonstrates how these experts apply yoga's wisdom to conditions such as arthritis, chronic fatigue, depression, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, infertility, insomnia, multiple sclerosis, and obesity. By defining yoga as a systematic approach to enhance the body, mind, and spirit, the author guides readers toward a transformative path. This indispensable resource is essential for current and aspiring yoga practitioners, as well as yoga teachers, body workers, and health professionals.