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Relax Into Yoga for Seniors: A Six-Week Program for Strength, Balance, Flexibility, and Pain Relief
Contributor(s): Carson, Kimberly (Author), Krucoff, Carol (Author), Krucoff, Mitchell W. (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 1626253641     ISBN-13: 9781626253643
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Health & Fitness | Yoga
- Self-help | Aging
- Health & Fitness | Healthy Living
Dewey: 613.704
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.9" W x 9.9" L (1.20 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Generational Orientation - Elderly/Aged
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Foreword 11/28/2016
 
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Relax into Yoga for Seniors presents twelve principles of yoga practice for seniors, including those with limited mobility. This evidence-based workbook will guide you safely--step-by-step, and with posture illustrations--on a six-week program for improved balance, flexibility, and overall well-being.

Managing the emotional and physical challenges that come with aging can be difficult. Seniors face a number of age-related issues, such as chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, and anxiety and depression. And while some people may consider yoga a young person's practice, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests yoga can be beneficial for a wide variety of age-related ailments.

Relax Into Yoga for Seniors--based on the innovative Yoga for Seniors program, and including new material for fans of the Relax Into Yoga for Seniors DVD--provides a step-by-step guide that combines the best of modern, evidence-based medicine with the ancient wisdom, experience, and tradition of yogic teachings. With this book, you'll explore what yoga is and how to do it safely, including important movement considerations like how to get up and down from the floor with care, and how to stand and sit with healthy postural alignment.

With this popular program, you'll be able to create a safe and effective individualized practice that will address your needs, take personal limitations into consideration, and help you relieve pain, become more flexible and active, and connect more deeply with your inner experience.

Relax into Yoga for Seniors includes free downloadable guided audio practices and printable PDFs. Instructions for downloading these extra features can be found on page 229 of the book.


Contributor Bio(s): Carson, Kimberly: - Kimberly Carson, MPH, E-RYT, is a health educator at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, OR, specializing in the therapeutic use of yoga and mindfulness meditation for seniors and people with medical challenges. She currently offers classes to cardiac, oncology, and chronic pain patients. Kimberly has developed and taught yoga programs being researched at Duke University Medical Center and OHSU. The Yoga of Awareness program, developed by Kimberly and her husband Jim, has been shown in research trials to significantly reduce pain and fatigue in women with metastatic breast cancer, breast cancer survivors, as well as women with fibromyalgia. For more information, please visit her website at www.mindfulyogaworks.com.
Krucoff, Carol: - Carol Krucoff, E-RYT, is a yoga teacher at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, NC, where she specializes in therapeutic applications of yoga for people with health challenges. An award-winning health journalist, Carol served as founding editor of The Washington Post's 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, and is creator of the audio home-practice CD, Healing Moves Yoga. For more information, please visit her website at www.healingmoves.com.

Kimberly and Carol are codirectors of Yoga for Seniors, a network of yoga teachers dedicated to making yoga practices appropriate and available for older adults. They are codirectors of Integrative Yoga for Seniors Professional Training, and cocreators of the DVD, Relax into Yoga for Seniors. For more information, please visit their website at www.yoga4seniors.com.Krucoff, Mitchell W.: - Mitchell W. Krucoff, MD, is professor of medicine/cardiology at Duke University Medical Center, and codirector of the Cardiovascular Devices Group at Duke Clinical Research Institute. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering research in computer-assisted heart monitoring, new modalities of coronary revascularization, and cardiovascular applications of spiritual and complementary therapies. Author of more than 250 publications in the cardiology literature and book chapters in medical texts, Mitchell is senior editor of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. He has served on the board of directors of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Puttaparthi, India, since its construction in 1990, and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and The Society of Coronary Angiography and Interventions. Mitchell is a special government employee of the United States Food and Drug Administration, from whom he received a Distinguished Award for his tenure on the Circulatory Devices Advisory Panel. He has been married to Carol Krucoff since 1974, and they have two adult children.Carson, Jim: - Jim Carson, PhD, is a longtime student of Swami Muktananda. He is a former yogic monk who has taught the practices and philosophy of yoga worldwide for over thirty years. Now a clinical health psychologist and associate professor of anesthesiology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Jim is applying his expertise to the development and evaluation of yoga and meditation-based clinical treatments. He has worked extensively with patients suffering from persistent pain, including those with cancer, fibromyalgia, and multiple sclerosis. While Jim was on faculty at Duke University, he and his wife Kimberly developed the Yoga of Awareness program, and completed research trials with metastatic breast cancer patients and survivors of early-stage breast cancer. During his tenure at OHSU, a successful research trial has been completed using Yoga of Awareness for fibromyalgia. Jim and Kimberly together developed the first mindfulness program for couples, as well as the first loving-kindness meditation program for medical patients.
 
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