Essential Yoga Therapy: A beginner's guide to applying yoga therapy

Essential Yoga Therapy: A beginner's guide to applying yoga therapy

Others about ‘Essential Yoga Therapy’: Dr. Shirley Telles, MD, PhD: “Essential Yoga Therapy" takes the reader through a journey of mind-body physiology. There are accurate yet easy-to-understand descriptions, amply illustrated, of anatomy and physiology relevant to yoga therapy. Merel Martens has included information from up-to-date research as well as actual practice, citing well-known yoga therapists and researchers. This book has information for everyone involved in using yoga for healing, not just beginners as the title modestly suggests! A must-read for anyone who wants to use this ancient science for healing!" ---- If you've heard about the amazing power of yoga therapy but never knew how to get started, this is the book for you. This is finally a book that fully explains the benefits of yoga therapy using yoga, physiology, and a deep understanding of the body-mind connection. Guided by yoga therapist Merel Martens, you will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to change lives and be a source of everlasting joy and healing. Merel's journey from medical student, to an international healthcare policy professional, to a yoga therapist has taken her all over the world working with various kinds of patient, yoga students, meditators and musicians. Along the way she has developed an in-depth knowledge of how the understanding of human physiology and the practice of yoga, meditation, relaxation, and interpersonal coaching can be combined to create life transforming yoga therapy. In this book she shares her unique insights. With her explanations and advice, you and your clients will soon be enjoying these life-changing benefits: - deep confidence in own abilities - a clearer mind - more supple and healthier body - access to an abundant, joyous energy - a naturally occurring calmer state of being - disappearance or reduction of stress - a completely new, younger, healthier you