Yoga Therapy For The Whole Mother

Author : Julia Irene Romano
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 1839974591
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga Therapy for the Whole Mother written by Julia Irene Romano and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first of its kind, this is an authoritative and professional yoga therapy text offering a comprehensive overview of postpartum conditions and guidance on how to manage them using yoga therapy as both a lens and a toolbox. Rather than focussing on returning a woman's body to its pre-birth condition, this guide recentres emphasis on the mother's healing in body, mind, and spirit and guides practitioners in how to facilitate this transition. This book is centred on the pancamaya model which views the individual as a composite of five separate but interrelated layers including the physical, the breath-energetic, the psycho-emotional, the capacity for discernment, and awe. Split into five sections based on these layers, this guide will cover common postpartum issues alongside contemporary supporting research, as well as the best yoga therapy tools to address each concern. This evidence-based resource is invaluable for practitioners who want to help facilitate the postpartum healing journey.

Author : Alexandra DeSiato
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757324673
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whole Mama Yoga written by Alexandra DeSiato and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique way to see and process the motherhood experience through the lens of yoga, Whole Mama Yoga covers all phases and stages of becoming and being a mother or birth parent—offering a way to extend yoga’s gifts and tools for all who parent. . Women are drawn to yoga for its physical benefits, its ability to induce calm and presence, and its offering of spiritual depth. Whole Mama Yoga offers a way to extend yoga’s gifts into the motherhood experience and offers guidance that eases not just physical discomforts but existential ones. Many moms and birth parents balance boundless love and boredom, overwhelming joy and moments of isolation, self-confidence and self-doubt. Yoga provides an opportunity to practice the much needed body love and self-connection many parents need. Accessible to new yoga students, advanced yoga practitioners, and yoga teachers alike, Whole Mama Yoga is for parents with children of all ages. It is for those just thinking about beginning a family, those in the early stages of pregnancy, those getting close to labor and delivery, and for those new moms, who often feel harried and overwhelmed. This is a book to reference as children grow, change, and become little (and big) people. With yoga poses at the core of the text, yogi moms and instructors Alexandra DeSiato and Lauren Sacks offer helpful information in movement offerings that meet all moms and birth parents where they are. Organzied into sections titled Relate, Move, Reflect, Wisdom, and Breathe, Whole Mama Yoga provides breathing techniques, suggestions for meditation and mantra, inspiring tidbits of yoga philosophy, funny and uplifting stories from yoga-moms, and journal prompts that allow readers to reflect on their own experience of parenthood.

Author : Cheri Dostal Ryba
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 1787756653
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pelvic Yoga Therapy for the Whole Woman written by Cheri Dostal Ryba and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on women's pelvic health through yoga therapy, this evidence-based resource covers the intersections of biomechanics, self-study through yoga philosophy, emotional resilience, pain science and dynamic strategies for pelvic embodiment. Integrating pedagogical frameworks that differentiate yoga therapy from pelvic floor physical therapy, the book demonstrates how they can work together by including somatic education and case studies. It also covers breath patterns, mental constructs and conditioning, and baseline body awareness - taking the practitioner through the journey of self-assessment, building the therapeutic relationship and ongoing embodied practice. Looking at the individual rather than pelvic health as a sole diagnosis, Yoga Therapy for the Whole Woman is an invaluable guide for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, movement and fitness professionals and healthcare professionals working with women with pelvic floor challenges.

Author : Suzannah Neufeld, MFT
Publisher : Parallax Press
ISBN 13 : 1941529933
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awake at 3 a.m. written by Suzannah Neufeld, MFT and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnancy and new motherhood are often thought of as the most joyful, exciting, and blissful times in your life––but they can also be difficult and overwhelming. Yoga therapy offers practical mind-body tools (simple breath, movement, and mindfulness practices) to support you and provide solace, steadiness, and ease in difficult times. Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are the number one “complication” of birth. They affect not just moms who suffer, but also the families who care about and rely on those moms. More than twice as many moms suffer from PMADs as gestational diabetes. Yet while robust support and treatment options exist for diabetes, moms who suffer emotionally are rarely acknowledged. Instead of receiving help, they are handed platitudes like “Sleep when the baby sleeps,” “Let go of stress because it’s bad for the baby,” or “Just enjoy every minute because it goes by so fast.” This can be a lonely and confusing place to be—suffering profound fear or sadness at a time when your friends and family expect you to be happy, radiant, and beatifically calm. As a therapist supporting women's mental health and those recovering from perinatal mood disorders and trauma since 2003, Suzannah Neufeld is keenly aware of the special needs of women during pregnancy and the first year of motherhood. Synthesizing modern psychotherapeutic research with practical yoga therapy, Neufeld offers a compassionate, acceptance-based approach that meets women (and their partners) wherever they are. Awake at 3 a.m. contains short, digestible chapters that are perfect for when you are feeling exhausted or overwhelmed. Neufeld skillfully dismantles the myths and internal beliefs that contribute to the suffering of new mothers, and tells her own story with honesty and humor. The yoga practices are designed to fit into your life as it is now––no flexibility, mat, special clothes, or 90-minute yoga class required.

Author : Judith Hanson Lasater
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1930485646
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga for Pregnancy written by Judith Hanson Lasater and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her experience as a mother, a yoga teacher, and a physical therapist, author Judith Lasater, PhD presents a comprehensive and easy-to-follow program of yoga poses and breathing practices. These will help the mother to stay flexible and healthy throughout the pregnancy, remain present during the challenges of labor and delivery, and care for herself during the postpartum period. In addition, the author has created a special section called "Mantras for Mom and Baby," where the mother can explore heart-centered practices, one for each month during pregnancy and baby’s first year.

Author : Lee Majewski
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 1787750930
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga Therapy as a Whole-Person Approach to Health written by Lee Majewski and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Lee Majewski and Ananda Bhavanani define yoga and yoga therapy as a whole person practice, demonstrating how it can help the individual to heal through their own mechanisms. The authors bring yogic concepts from theory into everyday life, exploring how yoga therapy can work with all levels of a human being at the same time (physical, energetic, emotional, intellectual and spiritual) and demonstrating that, when applied correctly, it can assist healing and facilitate an improved quality of life. The book covers deep yogic work and how it applies to cancer patients, as well as a range of other chronic conditions including respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. For each of these conditions the authors explore how yoga therapy can go beyond alleviating symptoms and work to heal the whole person.

Author : Julie Llewellyn-Thomas
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 9781845331733
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga for Mother and Baby written by Julie Llewellyn-Thomas and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a gentle philosophy and harmonious movements that emphasize strength and flexibility, yoga offers new mothers and their babies a unique opportunity to spend rewarding time together-and to enhance mom's fitness. These exercises are geared towards parents of babies from six weeks to nine months old, with 140 color photographs showing each movement or position. For those mothers trying to reclaim their pre-pregnancy bodies, an additional series of solo exercises and complete routines are also provided. Massage techniques and age-specific stretches are detailed, and precise movements are recommended to address such common infant conditions as colic and restless sleep, all while laying the foundation of emotional well-being that will last a lifetime.

Author : Judith Lasater
Publisher : Rodmell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781930485051
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga for Pregnancy written by Judith Lasater and published by Rodmell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her experiences as a mother of three, a longtime yoga teacher and physical therapist presents easy-to-follow programs of yoga poses and breathing techniques to help a woman stay flexible and healthy throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Author : Linda Sparrowe
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611801303
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga Mama written by Linda Sparrowe and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first pre- and postnatal book geared specifically to experienced yoga practitioners—from an established author, with contributions from the leaders in the field. You've been practicing yoga for years. It is a part of the way you live, move, and breathe. And then . . . you get pregnant. Pregnancy can throw any woman a curve ball. Even established and experienced yoga practitioners will likely find that their body, mind, and practice are challenged during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. This book is the yoga practitioner's companion through this period, offering practical advice, step-by-step asana sequences, pranayama practices, and meditation techniques, all of which are designed to help new mothers connect more deeply to their experience and prepare for their journey—physically, mentally, and spiritually. Grounded in both ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge, Yoga Mama covers each trimester, labor and birth, and the postpartum years. The beautifully photographed sequences include modifications and suggestions to accommodate a growing belly and to address the concerns or challenges that may arise during this time. Holistic and ayurvedic medicine perspectives help women understand what is happening in their bodies at every juncture, and personal stories connect them to pregnant women everywhere. Through practice, self-reflection, and learning how to let go, yoga gives us the opportunity to be an active, informed participant in the birthing of our baby and a healthy, happy parent. Yoga Mama is the perfect companion for the experienced yoga practitioner during her pregnancy and on into motherhood. This pre- and postnatal book offers practical advice and inspiration, asana sequences, pranayama practices, and meditation techniques, all of which speak to and help new mothers connect more deeply to their experience and prepare for their journey--physically, mentally, and spiritually. Grounded in ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge, the book covers each trimester, labor and birth, and the postpartum years. It includes: • Flowing sequences that emphasize self-awareness and promote strength, flexibility, and balance • Modifications that accommodate a pregnant woman's growing belly, recalibrate her balance, and honor fluctuations in her energy levels • Mini sequences for specific trimester challenges: morning sickness, fatigue, anxiety, low-back issues, etc. • Asana, pranayama, and meditation practices designed to deeply connect mother and baby from the beginning of pregnancy through the postpartum years • A dedicated section on the pelvic floor to encourage women to let go and prepare for labor and birth • Special breathing techniques for labor that encourage natural childbirth • Deeper practices and ancient teachings that can help women tap into their strength and create a prenatal and birthing experience that is empowering and unique • Postpartum advice and sequences designed to help knit things back together, address postpartum challenges, and offer tips for bonding, nursing, self-care, and nutrition • Information (from a Western holistic and ayurvedic perspective) on what is happening in the body at every juncture--prenatal, labor and birth, and postpartum • Personal advice and stories from a wide array of pre- and postnatal experts With contributions from: • Elena Brower: founder and director of Virayoga in New York City, prenatal teacher for YogaGlo.com, and author of Art of Attention • Stephanie Snyder: teacher in San Francisco, pre- and postnatal teacher for YogaGlo.com • Jane Austin: pre- and postnatal yoga teacher, midwife, childbirth educator, and director of Mama Tree prenatal teacher training programs in San Francisco • Margi Young: OM yoga teacher in New York and San Francisco • De West: pre- and postnatal yoga teacher and childbirth educator in Boulder • Dustienne Miller: certified physical therapist and Kripalu yoga teacher in Boston • Kate Hanley: OM yoga teacher, mind-body coach, and author of The 28 Days Lighter Diet • Melissa Billie Williams: pre- and postnatal teacher and director of Yoga Junction studio in Louisville, Colorado

Author : Corinne Andrews
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635863120
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birthing Mama written by Corinne Andrews and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthing Mama offers a holistic approach to the transformative experience of pregnancy. Author Corinne Andrews, a yoga teacher since 2003 and creator of Birthing Mama® Prenatal Yoga and Wellness, guides women through each week of the nine-month journey, integrating body, mind, and spirit through reflection, yoga postures and breath practices, self-care activities, and creative projects. Whether expectant mothers are setting up a Pregnancy Altar to focus their hopes and dreams for the baby-to-be, writing a Pregnancy Affirmation Statement, blending an herbal tea formula, or breathing into mountain pose for strength and healing, they will find a blend of self-nourishment and self-discovery, contemplation, and celebration through Andrews’s gentle, empowering style.