YOGA for AMPUTEES: The Essential Guide to Finding Wholeness After Limb Loss for Yoga Students and Their Teachers - Softcover

Danzig, Marsha Therese

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974485845 ISBN 13: 9780974485843

Publisher: Sacred Oak Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Yes! You can practice yoga as an amputee! This book will show you how. DISCOVER powerful yoga practices to build your balance, strength, confidence and body awareness. LEARN how to adapt your yoga to your individual level of limb loss. REDUCE pain and stress due to limb loss. IGNITE your life with inner and outer transformation. MOTIVATE your amputee clients to better health and well-being in your clinic or rehabilitation hospital.
Yoga offers amputees the flexibility, strength and stamina they are seeking, while also providing emotional, mental and spiritual well-being to help amputees of all levels thrive in life. Featuring step by step poses modeled by fellow amputees, with detailed adaptations for leg and arm amputees, as well as yoga tools specific to amputee challenges, such as yoga for phantom pain, Yoga for Amputees: The Essential Guide to Finding Wholeness After Limb Loss is a comprehensive guide for both amputees and the people who work with them. A must for any amputee wanting to reclaim their health and wellness after limb loss or anyone working in rehabilitation who wants to add yoga to their patient care plan, such as prosthetists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, recreational therapists , kinesiologists and physicians.

About this title

From the Author

Dear FriendThank you for your interest in my book, Yoga for Amputees: The Essential Guide to Finding Wholeness After Limb Loss. This book has been a work of the heart, forty years in the making, from my initial limb loss to my 30+ year practicing and teaching yoga .Wholeness (feeling home within oneself body, mind and spirit) is at the core of this book. Each chapter provides a yoga solution to a common amputee challenge, with the end result that we as amputees feel whole. Throughout the book, amputees of all levels share how yoga has helped them overcome their difficulties, and how they reclaimed their wholeness. Advancements in prosthetics, disability awareness, and a global adaptive yoga movement make this book timely for amputees. Yoga has taken a front seat in western medicine, with therapeutic yoga programs popping up at hospitals and clinics all over the world. These holistic medicine programs prove that yoga works, increasing patient wellness without invasive procedures or excessive prescriptive medications. Wholeness is not simply having four limbs. Wholeness is knowing that you are complete within yourself, just as you are. Yoga can make that happen. The pages of this book will reveal just how.
Love, Marsha

From the Back Cover

Yes you can practice yoga as an amputee! This book will showyou how. DISCOVER powerful yoga practices to build your balance, strength, confidenceand body awareness. LEARN how to adapt your yoga to your individual level oflimb loss. REDUCE pain and stress due to limb loss. IGNITE your life with innerand outer transformation. MOTIVATE your amputee clients.Yoga offers amputeesthe flexibility, strength and stamina they are seeking, while also providing emotional,mental and spiritual well-being to help amputees of all levels thrive in life.Featuring step by step poses modeled by fellow amputees, with detailedadaptations for leg and arm amputees, as well as yoga tools specific to amputeechallenges, such as yoga for phantom pain, thisbook is a comprehensive guide for both amputees and the people who workwith them. A must for any amputee wanting to reclaim their health and wellnessafter limb loss.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sacred Oak Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0974485845
• ISBN 13: 9780974485843
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 446