Yoga as Therapeutic Exercise
A Practical Guide for Manual Therapists
- 1st Edition - August 27, 2010
- Latest edition
- Authors: Luise Worle, Laurie Hartman, Erik Pfeiff, Shri B.K.S Iyengar
- Language: English
Yoga as Therapeutic Exercise is a practical guide to prescribing yoga exercises therapeutically for common health problems. The book is aimed at all manual therapists, as w… Read more
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Description
Yoga as Therapeutic Exercise is a practical guide to prescribing yoga exercises therapeutically for common health problems. The book is aimed at all manual therapists, as well as yoga teachers working with beginners and physically restricted or older students. It describes how to modify yoga postures for a wide range of patients and conditions, integrating relaxation, stretching and strengthening. Written in an accessible style and with a very practical layout, it describes the principles and aims of this exercise approach before providing groups of exercises for specific areas of the body (feet and knees, pelvis, spine, shoulder girdle, neck, arms and hands). Exercises are classified from basic to advanced level and supported by clear illustrative photographs and precise descriptions.
KEY FEATURES
Includes basic tests to find the appropriate exercises
Gives advice for patient compliance
Presents basic exercises for all areas of the body
Helps patients build up a successful individual form of practice
Luise Wörle and Erik Pfeiff both lecture and teach
throughout Europe. Luise is a yoga teacher and osteopath;
Erik is a psychotherapist and bodywork therapist.
Key features
Key features
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Forewords
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction to Yoga
A short overview of the history of Yoga
Yoga and health
Aims to be achieved through practice and principles underlying the exercise approach
Research on therapeutic yoga
What anatomy teaches for the performance of yoga exercises
Final considerations
Chapter 2 Mindful exercising
Theories of mindfulness
Teaching mindfulness and mindful exercising
Chapter 3 Diagnosis
General considerations about diagnosis and testing
Tests of our aims of exercising
Exercise and pain
Contraindications
Chapter 4 Motivation and cognitive-behavioural intervention strategies
General considerations
Practical measures
Chapter 5 Preparatory practice for the yoga art of breathing
General introduction
Basic anatomy and physiology of respiration
Preparation for Prānāyāma, the yoga art of breathing
Chapter 6 The basic exercises
General introduction: basic exercises
Basic exercises for the lumbar spine
Basic exercises for the thoracic cage and ribs
Basic exercises for the thoracic spine
Basic exercises for the shoulder girdle and the cervicohoracic junction
Basic exercises for the cervical spine, head, and temporomandibular joint
Basic exercises for elbows, wrists and hands
Basic exercises for the pelvis
Basic exercises for the hips
Basic exercises for the knees
Basic exercises for the feet
Chapter 7 Selected āsanas for integrating the aims and principles
Introduction
Selected āsanas
Combinations and sequencing of āsanas
Chapter 8 Yoga in everyday life
Introduction
Selections from basic practice that are suitable to be integrated in many areas and situations
Examples for integrating the spirit and the practice of yoga into everyday life
Conclusion
Afterword
Index
Product details
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- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 29, 2010
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Luise Worle
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