YOGA FOR EMOTIONAL BALANCE

There are many styles of yoga today, but this slow and therapeutic approach at your own pace may help alleviate many serious illnesses, eye pressure issues, back pain or injury, a detached retina, heart problems, serious skeletal injuries, lymphedema and more. Simple practices to help relieve anxiety and depression, this is an excellent self help guide to cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. The habitual postures and movements of anxiety and depression can be corrected through the practices described here leading to dramatically improved mood states. 'They are close to miraculous and everyone can do them.' Psychologist and yoga teacher Bo presents a mind-body approach to healing, anxiety and chronic stress showing simple ways to understand your emotional patterns, the three main obstacles to emotional well-being. There are five tools for building emotional balance, restorative yoga sequences, breath and body-centred exercises to calm your mind and energise your body. Restorative yoga introduces meditation, active postures and breathing, slowing your heart rate and calming your nervous system and decreasing your worrying. Most are as simple as a reclining twist onto a big bolster and many use blankets under the neck and require little more than a wall or a soft blanket to lie on. 236pp in large softback.