Rest is Radical: A Guide to Deep Relaxation Through Yoga

by Mel Skinner

Overview

An invitation to move towards stillness and, in doing so, the discovery of a life more peaceful, contented and joyful.

Radical rest can not only improve physical health, support mental wellbeing and increase emotional resilience but can even change the way we think about ourselves and the world around us.

In Rest is Radical, Mel Skinner gives us nine principles which provide the foundation and guidelines to radical rest along with yoga practices that lead us to an embodied way of understanding the principles through the felt experience of slowing down.

She explores how symptoms of depression, anxiety, addiction and more can be supported with the practices she shares. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913504205
Publisher:	Aeon Books
Publication date:	09/24/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	174
File size:	813 KB

About the Author

Mel Skinner is a yoga teacher, reflexologist, writer and a lover of yoga, particularly restorative yoga and yoga nidra. She became a qualified yoga teacher in 2014, and launched into intensive study, both with a number of skilled and inspirational teachers and alone with a yoga mat and plenty of books. In that time she discovered more about herself and became aware of the link between mental and physical wellbeing and the unresolved grief of losing one’s caregivers and home. She learnt a new way to listen to her body, and discovered the joy that comes from dwelling deep within slow time.

Mel Skinner is a yoga teacher, reflexologist, writer and a lover of yoga, particularly restorative yoga and yoga nidra. She became a qualified yoga teacher in 2014, and launched into intensive study, both with a number of skilled and inspirational teachers and alone with a yoga mat and plenty of books. In that time she discovered more about herself and became aware of the link between mental and physical wellbeing and the unresolved grief of losing one's caregivers and home. She learnt a new way to listen to her body, and discovered the joy that comes from dwelling deep within slow time.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE: Welcome

CHAPTER TWO: Gifted

CHAPTER THREE: Ready to rest

CHAPTER FOUR: The tools

CHAPTER FIVE: You have been called to rest

CHAPTER SIX: Call to rest: Stress

CHAPTER SEVEN: Call to rest: Anxiety

CHAPTER EIGHT: Call to rest: Addiction

CHAPTER NINE: Call to rest: Depression

CHAPTER TEN: Call to rest: Grief

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Call to rest: Trauma

CHAPTER TWELVE: Call to rest: Menstrual health

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Radical Restivism

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Radical Rest toolkit

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

RESTFUL RADICAL READING

NOTES

Editorial Reviews

An invitation to move towards stillness and, in doing so, the discovery of a life more peaceful, contented and joyful.

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