A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga
Amy Weintraub, MFA, RYT, is a senior Kripalu teacher and an award-winning fiction writer. She teaches yoga and fiction writing and contributes to national magazines, including Yoga Journal, Poets and Writers, and Psychology Today. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
“This is a book about integrating the mind and the body, about
using movement to mend oneself; in a world obsessed with
psychopharmacology, reading it was a refreshing reminder that, in
some cases, the tools we have to cure depression reside not in a
pill, but in our own bodies, if we are willing to try.”—Lauren
Slater, author of Prozac Diary and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
“In the compassionate voice of someone who definitely knows the
territory of depression, Amy Weintraub presents Yoga science and
personal stories, research results and poetry, and practice
instructions that are genuinely interesting in this very readable
book that is both comprehensive and totally inspiring.”—Sylvia
Boorstein, author of That’s Funny You Don’t Look Like a Buddhist
and It’s Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness
“Amy Weintraub's work is some of the most important in our world
today for helping humanity understand more deeply the significance
of the mind-body connection. Her insights are inspirational for
yoga teachers and all readers. Her in-depth understanding of her
subject is an important basis for personal, as well as societal
transformation.”—Rama Jyoti Vernon, Founder, American Yoga
College
“This is truly a beautifully written encyclopedia of yoga for
depression. It is rare to find such a generous soul, willing to
embrace all approaches to yoga, unbiased and yet having intelligent
discernment and advice for those searching for help. Amy offers
many guidelines and solutions through yoga, to both those who
suffer from depression and to yoga teachers working with
them.”—Angela Farmer, internationally known master yoga teacher
“With clarity, compassion, and the courage of a person who has
lived her own story all the way through, Amy Weintraub offers
readers a self-aware, self-creating path through the darker
thickets of a life. Her specific, gracefully presented suggestions
for joining breath, body, movement, and mind bring one of the great
wisdom traditions into a newly useful context, an essential means
for renewing and reawakening contemporary life.”—Jane Hirshfield,
author of nine books of poetry
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