Yoga RX: A Step-by-Step Program to Promote Health, Wellness, and Healing for Common Ailments

Larry Payne, Richard P. Usatine, Merry Aronson, Rachelle Gardner

ISBN 10: 0767907493 / ISBN 13: 9780767907491

Published by Broadway October 2002, 2002

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Minimal wear, interior clean and unmarked, binding uncreased and firm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yoga RX: A Step-by-Step Program to Promote Health, Wellness, and Healing for Common Ailments
• Publisher: Broadway October 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0767907493
• ISBN 13: 9780767907491
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Yoga

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Synopsis

East meets West as an assistant dean at the UCLA School of Medecine and a celebrity Yoga instructor show how to use ancient Yoga postures for treating dozens of common ailments.

Yoga has never been hotter in America, and now its benefits are being recognized far beyond the arenas of enlightenment and body sculpting. Yoga RX distills an array of postures into an easy-to-use regimen for anyone seeking relief for anything from back pain to the common cold.

Written by a highly respected professor of medecine and a renowned Yoga teacher and Yoga therapist whose clients include Warren Beatty, Ted Danson, and Dolly Parton, Yoga RX offers a holistic program based on the authors' research into the science of Yoga. Helping readers enhance their chances of disease prevention through increased circulation, strength, flexibility, and concentration, this accessible handbook also covers specific Yoga therapies for treating illnesses such as:

• Arthritis
• Headaches
• PMS
• Insomnia
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

In the tradition of The Pilates Body, this step-by-step, illustrated handbook is the ultimate prescription for healing body, mind, and soul.

About the Author

Larry Payne, Ph.D., is cofounder and director of the International Association of Yoga Therapies and President of the Samata Yoga Center, which serves numerous celebrity clients. He is also cocreator of the yoga curriculum at UCLA School of Medicine and coauthor of Yoga for Dummies. Richard Usatine, M.D., is a professor of clinical family medicine and the cofounder of the Yoga curriculum UCLA School of Medicine. He is also a respected author and the recipient of the Association of American Medical Colleges Award for Humanism in Medicine. Both authors reside in Los Angeles.