Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain: An Eight-Week Mindful Yoga Workbook for Finding Relief and Resilience
224Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain: An Eight-Week Mindful Yoga Workbook for Finding Relief and Resilience
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Overview
If you live with chronic pain, you need solutions now to help you feel better and get back to living your life. If you’re looking for an alternative to pharmaceutical pain medication, yoga is powerful practice for managing pain and building resilience. Based on the proven-effective Mindful Yoga program developed by the authors at Duke University, this safe and easy-to-use book—accessible for all levels of fitness and mobility—has everything you need to get started today.
In this workbook, you’ll find an eight-step, integrative approach drawing on both modern western medicine and the ancient wisdom of the yoga tradition. The gentle poses and practices in this book are informed by a state-of-the-art understanding of physiology, and can be safely used to help alleviate pain associated with several common health problems, such as arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, and more.
This is not a book about getting into pretzel positions or sitting on a yoga mat for hours. This is a book about gentle, easy, and calming yoga that will help you manage your pain and improve your overall well-being.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781684033287 |
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Publisher: | New Harbinger Publications |
Publication date: | 01/02/2020 |
Pages: | 224 |
Sales rank: | 1,087,607 |
Product dimensions: | 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.49(d) |
About the Author
Kimberly Carson, MPH, C-IAYT, is a mindfulness educator and yoga therapist at OHSU; specializing in the therapeutic use and scientific study of mindfulness and yoga for people with medical challenges. Kimberly currently offers mindfulness and yoga programs to chronic pain, cardiac, oncology (inpatient and outpatient), and internal medicine patients, and has taught mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for more than twenty years. In addition to codeveloping the Mindful Yoga program—which has been shown in research trials to significantly reduce pain, fatigue, and distress in those living with chronic pain—Kimberly consults on mindfulness and yoga clinical research trials, has coauthored dozens of peer-reviewed articles, and codirects professional trainings for yoga teachers and allied health professionals at OHSU, Duke Integrative Medicine, VA Centers, the Kripalu Center, and other locations around the country. With Carol Krucoff, Kimberly coauthored Relax into Yoga for Seniors. To learn more, visit www.mindfulyogaworks.com.
Carol Krucoff, C-IAYT, E-RYT, is a yoga therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, NC; where she offers private sessions, workshops, and classes for people with health challenges. An award-winning journalist, Carol served as founding editor of The Washington Post Health section, and her articles have appeared in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, Yoga Journal, and Reader’s Digest. She is author of several books, including Yoga Sparks and Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain. She is codirector, with Kimberly Carson, of Yoga for Seniors Professional Training, and they are coauthors of the book (and DVD), Relax into Yoga for Seniors. She has served as a consultant on several yoga research studies, and coauthored articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. For more information, visit www.healingmoves.com.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Yoga Can Help vii
Introduction: What is Chronic Pain and How Can Mindful Yoga Help? 1
The Perfect Storm of Chronic Pain 4
What Is Yoga-And How Can It Relieve Pain? 11
How to Use This Book 16
Week 1 Riding the Waves: Beginning Your Mindful Yoga Journey 19
Foundations of Yoga Practice 21
Simple Being: Just Present 22
Riding the Waves = Living Skillfully 25
Mindful Yoga Practices 27
Three-Part Breath 29
Week 1 Recommended Practice Schedule 31
Week 1 Review 35
Week 2 Riding the Waves of Attention 37
Attention Is Our Greatest Asset 38
Mindful Yoga Practices 41
"I Am" 44
Simple Being, Always Here 44
Week 2 Recommended Practice Schedule 45
Week 2 Review 49
Week 3 Riding the Waves of Stress 53
Riding vs. Battling the Waves of Stress 55
Coping with Stress: Riding vs. Battling the Waves 57
Week 3 Recommended Practice Schedule 59
Week 3 Review 64
Week 4 Riding the Waves of the Mind's Story 67
Fusion Leads to Confusion 70
Week 4 Recommended Practice Schedule 73
Week 4 Review 78
Week 5 Riding the Waves of Pain 81
Same Injury, Different Experience 82
How Pain Works 82
How Mindful Yoga Can Help You Ride Waves of Pain 84
Additional Tools for Riding the Waves of Pain 88
Breathing into Sensation Practice 89
Week 5 Recommended Practice Schedule 90
Week 5 Review 95
Week 6 Riding the Waves of Emotions 99
How Mindful Yoga Can Help You Ride Waves of Emotions 100
Extended Exhalation Practice 101
Emotion Laboratory 104
Week 6 Recommended Practice Schedule 106
Week 6 Review 111
Week 7 Riding the Waves of Fatigue 115
Breaking the Fatigue Cycle 116
Week 7 Recommended Practice Schedule 119
Week 7 Review 124
Week 8 Continuing the Journey to Pain Relief 127
Mindful Yoga Review 128
Making the Most of What You've Learned 130
Launch Yourself on Every Wave 133
Mindful Yoga Posture Practices 135
Acknowledgments 195
How to Get the Accessories for Your Book 197
References 201
Interviews
Krucoff resides in Chapel Hill, NC (Durham); Carson resides in Portland, OR.