Energy Medicine Yoga

by Lauren Walker, Donna Eden (Foreword)

?2015 Nautilus Award Winner

What is it that makes yoga practitioners feel so good after a session―more so than after other kinds of exercise or stretching? "Yoga was created to directly stimulate and move us at the energetic level," teaches Lauren Walker. Yet many of us don't have the time to spare for the kind of extensive regular practice we'd need to gain the full benefits yoga was meant to offer. That's why Walker created Energy Medicine Yoga ―a breakthrough book that combines yoga with the most effective techniques of energy medicine to vastly increase the healing power of your practice.

Created for yoga practitioners of any background or experience―even complete newcomers―this clear, easy-to-use guidebook

Energy medicine essentials―key concepts about your subtle anatomy and its profound influence on your physical, emotional, and spiritual health
• An eight-week learning plan for working with your body's energy systems―with practices focused on your meridians, chakras, vibrational field, and more
• Power poses―the most valuable "if you do nothing else, do these" techniques for each of your body's energy systems
• The 20-minute template―putting it all together to create your own custom-made, supercharged daily practice
Lauren Walker has adapted the renowned energy medicine methods pioneered by her own teacher, Donna Eden, so they integrate seamlessly into yoga movements and postures. "Energy medicine yoga teaches you to take the things you're doing now, layer them together with complementary techniques, and exponentially increase the benefits of your practice," Walker explains. "You'll learn to work smarter, not harder―so you can have a healthy body full of energy, zest, and joy for what life has to offer."

Genres: Health, Spirituality, Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2014

About the author

Lauren Walker is the author of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice (Sounds True, 2014) and The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription (Sounds True, 2017). She’s been teaching yoga and meditation since 1997 and created Energy Medicine Yoga while teaching at Norwich University. She teaches EMYoga across the US and internationally and has been featured in Yoga Journal, Mantra +, Yoga Digest, and The New York Times. She was recently named one of the top 100 most influential yoga teachers in America.

Reviews

[Kate Wester · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is a lot of good information in this book. However,I'm only giving it 3 stars because I think one would need a good amount of familiarity with both yoga and energy medicine to be able to incorporate these practices. I think they would be more easily learned from a video or in person. Perhaps a video is forthcoming. Also, I may be a more visual learner. I plan to read it a few times and try to include some of it in my daily practice.

[Louise Silk · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book I have seen that augments the yoga practice in a basic understandable and applicable fashion combining a number of energy meridian techniques with breathe, sound and mudra.

[Olena · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very interesting approach to holistic healing. For myself I discovered yoga for eyes; I knew about asana, pranayama, facercise, mantras, mudras but yoga for eyes is something new to try.

[Sean S · Rating 1 out of 5]

I guess there are two parts to yoga for me: the forms or moves, and the ideas behind what they achieve and can do for you (physically, spiritually, etc.) I think there is definite value in the moves themselves, I tried every move in the book and they feel like good stretches and understand why they would help make you stronger in the core and joints, increase flexibility, lead to better health and mobility, etc. I absolutely could not get into the rest of what yoga stands for, the chakras and auras, the idea that rubbing up on my thigh makes me stop pooping while rubbing down makes me go, etc. I think all of that is rooted in information and ideas before the advent of the scientific method, and should be discarded. A quick Google search tells me yoga is between 5000 and 10000 years old. There was very little understanding of how the body truly worked at this time, and I would surmise plenty of this information has been propagated into the 21st century without critical analysis. I also see that cardio and strength training focus on the circulatory and respiratory system + muscle/tendon/ligament system, so there is room for other systems to be "trained", so to speak. However, why not just call a spade a spade, and say that holding a pose for 5 minutes will naturally lead to introspection, deeper thought, meditation, and drop all the bullshit about auras and chakras.

Then again, maybe I am just a hater.

[Grace Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book that will change your life!!

[Lise · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although the subject is interesting if you have little knowledge about yoga and no knowledge of Energy medicine yoga it can be overwhelming