Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga

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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Yoga.com
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.852706
EAN: 9780767914505
Feature: A godsend: beautifully written, medically accurate, and very practical.-Christiane Northrup, M.D.
ISBN: 0767914503
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2003-12-23
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: 2003-12-23
Studio: Broadway

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A godsend: beautifully written, medically accurate, and very practical.-Christiane Northrup, M.D. Paperback book with 285 useful pages by Amy Weintraub.

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Take the natural path to mental wellness

More than 25 million Americans are treated with antidepressants each year, at a cost in excess of $50 billion. But the side effects of popular prescription drugs may seem nearly as depressing as the symptoms they’re meant to treat. Veteran yoga instructor Amy Weintraub offers a better solution—one that taps the scientifically proven link between yoga and emotional well-being as well as the beauty of ancient approaches to inner peace.

Addressing a range of diagnoses, including dysthymia, anxiety-based depression, and bipolar disorder, Yoga for Depression reveals why specific postures, breathing practices, and meditation techniques can ease suffering and release life’s traumas and losses. Weintraub also reflects on her own experience with severe depression, from which she recovered through immersing herself in a daily yoga routine.
Yoga for Depression is the first yoga book devoted exclusively to the treatment of these debilitating conditions. Amy Weintraub will help readers see their suffering and themselves in a vibrant new light.

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Summary: Yoga for Depression
Comment: I love this book. It has alot of excellent information to help people who are suffering from depression. I am a yoga teacher and find that the poses they suggest are wonderful to relieve many symptoms of sadness. I purchased 2 additional book for my girlfriends.

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Summary: Yoga for Depression review
Comment: A well-researched, well-written book which has inspired me to commit to daily yoga. Amy Weintraub illustrates convincingly the benefits yoga can bring to a depressed person, without condemning conventional medicine. Instead she recommends a mixture of yoga, medication and talk therapy to suit each individual. This book is inspiring and gives me hope.

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Summary: the power to change comes from ones self - not in the heavens
Comment: I expected a more pure yoga approach to this most serious subject; depression. Some depression is caused by physical problems therefore I expected more YOGA positions; healing the body thus setting the stage to clear the mind. Finding the answers to problems of the mind is difficult enough without diverting the process in non reality based solutions.

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Summary: Extremely Helpful and Well Written
Comment: As a long-time sufferer of depression and anxiety who has spent years on medication as well as counseling, this book provides a great deal of information on the healing nature of yoga and meditation. Ms. Weintraub certainly seems to understand the dark days firsthand and she offers positive advice on how a yoga practice can help quiet the mind as well as energize the body.

I did buy the book expecting it to have a full yoga program in it. But that is not the purpose of the book. It does have many yoga practices and they have been helpful but her intent is to explain the connection between our bodies and emotions and how yoga can help. She recommends taking a yoga class or using a book to truly learn yoga properly. She provides a fantastic list of resources at the end of the book for yoga websites, retreats, books, and cds.

I highly recommend this book and I am enjoying my new yoga adventure.

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Summary: Yoga for Depression
Comment: Interesting read in its attempt to tie contemporarily known facts about the etiology and treatment of depression to this time-honored and ancient practice. A worthwhile read for those who either want to try yoga under the tutelage of a certified teacher and as part of professionally supervised treatment as a means of improving and sustaining mood or adding it to more traditional treatment. Clearly, we have much more to learn about how yoga effects mood and the relationship of movement, breath, spirituality and self-discovery to depression.

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