Yoga has a huge following worldwide, but apart from being a beneficial form of exercise, it’s also very useful for aiding particular health conditions. Therapeutic Yoga shows exactly how to use yoga as a form of healing, offering a clear, descriptive and authoritative view of this practical and accessible method.

Part one starts with the basics, detailing what therapeutic yoga is and what it involves. All the benefits of yoga, such as increasing your energy, stretching muscles and improving circulation, are explained, and it provides the crucial details of how to practice the method.

Part two offers a guide to healthy living, covering topics such as diet, massage (self and others) and breath control, and offers a yoga programme aimed to improve your wellbeing.

In part three you’ll find ways of using yoga therapy to aid specific ailments. Amongst the variety of health issues covered, there are ideas for helping irritable bowel syndrome, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, arthritis, headaches and backache. Not content to merely provide yoga exercise, the authors also offer their top tips on combating each condition, for example, dietary means of easing irritable bowel syndrome or headaches.

The book is illustrated throughout with clear photographs, ensuring the reader effortlessly grasps the basics of the positions explained. Written by celebrity doctor, author and pioneer of integrated medicine, Dr. Mosaraf Ali, and Jiwan Brar, a practitioner of therapeutic yoga, you can be sure you’re getting the best advice.

If you’ve never tried yoga or assumed it’s a tricky method only suitable for super-fit flexible individuals, think again. This book opens up the world of yoga, extending its benefits to include healing for common conditions and making it applicable and accessible to everyone.

Rachel Newcombe is our guest reviewer of Therapeutic Yoga, and Bookpleasures is highly honored to have her as one of its book reviewers.

OUR GUEST REVIEWER

Rachel Newcombe is a UK-based freelance writer, editor and researcher of non-fiction articles for online and print media. She specialises in the fields of health, parenting and the Internet, although she also enjoys other topics such as education, travel, writing and lifestyle issues.

Her work appears in a wide range of print and online publications, both in the UK and Internationally, and she is the editor of Health Today magazine.

Other publishing credits include BUPA, HMG Worldwide (Health-Media Ltd), Handbag.com, icircle.com, UK Plus, Freelance Market News, Discovery Health, Home and School magazine, It's On The Net magazine, Babyworld, Executive Internet magazine, Inkspot.com, Global Writers' Ink, Huggies Mother and Baby Club, Mondiale Publishing, Centro Research, Holisticshop.co.uk, YCraze.com, SPL Publishing, Citrus Publishing, Writing-World.com, Hobsons, Diabetes Alternatives, Absolute Write and Windowbox.com.

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She is a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Society of Authors.

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