"This is a landmark book. Yoga as Medicine provides a remarkable perspective on the breadth and depth of Yoga therapy, and many leading practitioners, both in the West and India, in a uniquely educational, engaging, and inspiring way."
– John Kepner, Executive Director, International Association of Yoga Therapists
“If you care about your body and want to learn to listen more carefully to its messages, and to take good care of it over the long haul, you will find this book a godsend, whether you are young or old, firm or infirm, a new-comer to yoga or an old-timer. It is the first comprehensive medical look at the benefits of yoga and its therapeutic uses. Timothy McCall has done a great service to the field of mind/body medicine”.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
author of Full Catastrophe Living
From arthritis, asthma and heart disease to insomnia, infertility and weight loss, this groundbreaking book of yoga therapy provides the postures, breathing techniques and meditation exercises to relieve stress, prevent illness, and heal you when you're sick. With a wealth of practical information, a comprehensive review of the scientific research, and in-depth coverage of injury prevention and contraindications to safe practice, this book is an indispensable guide for the millions who now do yoga or would like to learn, as well as for yoga teachers, body workers, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals.
Yoga as Medicine features twenty chapters devoted to the work of individual master teachers such as Patricia Walden, John Friend, Gary Kraftsow, Nischala Joy Devi, and Rodney Yee, and shows how these experts have applied their knowledge of this revered ancient practice to heal people in need. Dr. Timothy McCall, Yoga Journal's medical editor, outlines the yogic approach to each condition and shows how to safely integrate yoga into both Western medicine and alternative health care to create a prescription for health and healing whose time has come.
Illustrated with more than 300 photos, drawings and charts throughout. 568 pages, $24. Yoga as Medicine has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and Japanese .
– John Kepner, Executive Director, International Association of Yoga Therapists
“If you care about your body and want to learn to listen more carefully to its messages, and to take good care of it over the long haul, you will find this book a godsend, whether you are young or old, firm or infirm, a new-comer to yoga or an old-timer. It is the first comprehensive medical look at the benefits of yoga and its therapeutic uses. Timothy McCall has done a great service to the field of mind/body medicine”.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
author of Full Catastrophe Living
From arthritis, asthma and heart disease to insomnia, infertility and weight loss, this groundbreaking book of yoga therapy provides the postures, breathing techniques and meditation exercises to relieve stress, prevent illness, and heal you when you're sick. With a wealth of practical information, a comprehensive review of the scientific research, and in-depth coverage of injury prevention and contraindications to safe practice, this book is an indispensable guide for the millions who now do yoga or would like to learn, as well as for yoga teachers, body workers, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals.
Yoga as Medicine features twenty chapters devoted to the work of individual master teachers such as Patricia Walden, John Friend, Gary Kraftsow, Nischala Joy Devi, and Rodney Yee, and shows how these experts have applied their knowledge of this revered ancient practice to heal people in need. Dr. Timothy McCall, Yoga Journal's medical editor, outlines the yogic approach to each condition and shows how to safely integrate yoga into both Western medicine and alternative health care to create a prescription for health and healing whose time has come.
Illustrated with more than 300 photos, drawings and charts throughout. 568 pages, $24. Yoga as Medicine has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and Japanese .