Yoga as Therapeutic Exercise
A Practical Guide for Manual Therapists
Seiten
2010
Churchill Livingstone (Verlag)
978-0-7020-3383-4 (ISBN)
Churchill Livingstone (Verlag)
978-0-7020-3383-4 (ISBN)
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A guide to prescribing yoga exercises therapeutically for common health problems. It describes how to modify yoga postures for various patients and conditions, integrating relaxation, stretching and strengthening. It is intended for the manual therapists, and yoga teachers working with beginners and physically restricted or older students.
Yoga as Therapeutic Exercise is a practical guide to prescribing yoga exercises therapeutically for common health problems. The book is aimed at all manual therapists, as well as yoga teachers working with beginners and physically restricted or older students. It describes how to modify yoga postures for a wide range of patients and conditions, integrating relaxation, stretching and strengthening. Written in an accessible style and with a very practical layout, it describes the principles and aims of this exercise approach before providing groups of exercises for specific areas of the body (feet and knees, pelvis, spine, shoulder girdle, neck, arms and hands). Exercises are classified from basic to advanced level and supported by clear illustrative photographs and precise descriptions.
KEY FEATURES
Includes basic tests to find the appropriate exercises
Gives advice for patient compliance
Presents basic exercises for all areas of the body
Helps patients build up a successful individual form of practice
Luise W�rle and Erik Pfeiff both lecture and teach
throughout Europe. Luise is a yoga teacher and osteopath;
Erik is a psychotherapist and bodywork therapist.
Yoga as Therapeutic Exercise is a practical guide to prescribing yoga exercises therapeutically for common health problems. The book is aimed at all manual therapists, as well as yoga teachers working with beginners and physically restricted or older students. It describes how to modify yoga postures for a wide range of patients and conditions, integrating relaxation, stretching and strengthening. Written in an accessible style and with a very practical layout, it describes the principles and aims of this exercise approach before providing groups of exercises for specific areas of the body (feet and knees, pelvis, spine, shoulder girdle, neck, arms and hands). Exercises are classified from basic to advanced level and supported by clear illustrative photographs and precise descriptions.
KEY FEATURES
Includes basic tests to find the appropriate exercises
Gives advice for patient compliance
Presents basic exercises for all areas of the body
Helps patients build up a successful individual form of practice
Luise W�rle and Erik Pfeiff both lecture and teach
throughout Europe. Luise is a yoga teacher and osteopath;
Erik is a psychotherapist and bodywork therapist.
1 Introduction to yoga
2 Mindful exercising
3 Diagnosis
4 Motivation and cognitive-behavioural intervention strategies
5 Preparatory practice for the yoga art of breathing
6 The basic exercises
7 Selected asanas for integrating the aims and principles
8 Yoga in everyday life
9 Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.8.2010 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Laurie Hartman, Shri B.K.S Iyengar |
| Zusatzinfo | Approx. 333 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 276 x 219 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7020-3383-9 / 0702033839 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7020-3383-4 / 9780702033834 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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