Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing

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Overview

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healingis a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical activity and is a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility and to address the spinal curvature of scoliosis without surgery. The book presents an evidence-based look at how this approach works. Dr. Fishman has been treating individuals with scoliosis with yoga for many years and has collected x-rays of his work, before and after, demonstrating actual lessening of the degree of curvature from the practice of Iyengar yoga.

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healingis a source of encouragement, knowledge, and healing for those who have scoliosis and need to treat it, but want to avoid braces and/or surgery. Itbriefly covers the history and treatment modalities of scoliosis and discusses the development of the spine in the embryo. Yoga and Scoliosisexplores the complexities of the concept of alignment in the body, with the main part of the book showing how to address scoliosis utilizing Iyengaryoga. Four chapters give instruction in yoga asanas for scoliosis, and another chapter discusses yoga practice in daily living. The book includes a Foreword by B. K. S. Iyengar, the founder of Iyengar Yoga.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781617050374
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/24/2011
Series: .
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 125
Sales rank: 781,792
File size: 11 MB
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About the Author

Loren Martin Fishman, MD, BPhil, is Assistant Clinical Professor in Rehabilitation at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and former President, New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Treasurer, Manhattan Institute for Cancer Research (Philanthropy).


Marcia Monroe teaches children in New York City at the Bloomingdale Family Program. Marcia is a Body Mind Centering teacher, an Infant Developmental Educator, is registered as a somatic movement educator, and is one of a handful of people who have worked extensively with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of The School for Body-Mind Centering. She teaches classes and workshops on yoga and scoliosis and maintains a private practice in New York City and Rio de Janeiro.

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction
1. Introduction to Scoliosis by Dr. Loren Fishman
2. Yoga
3. Concepts of Sequencing
Part II Yoga for Scoliosis
4. Postures on the Floor
5. Standing Asanas
6. Seated Asanas
7. Forward, Lateral, Abdominal, and Back Extensions
8. Inversions
9. Restorative Savasana: Witnessing and Feeling the Breath
Part III On Daily Life
10. On Daily Life
Additional Exercises
Resources
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