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Yoga for Times of Change: Practices and Meditations for Moving Through Stress, Anxiety, Grief, and Life's Transitions
Stay calm, steady, and composed through the ups and downs of life with yoga poses, relaxation techniques, meditations, and lessons on how to manage stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and life's transitions.
Yoga was originally designed to make you calmer, steadier, and more content, not just stronger and healthier. This guide offers many ways you can use yoga as a healthy coping mechanism when you're confronted with the physical, emotional, and mental changes that life brings you. It covers both ancient and modern techniques—including yoga poses, breathing practices, relaxation, mantras, and meditation—that allow you to return yourself to balance when you're experiencing challenges, and to fortify yourself for the future.
Nina Zolotow covers myriad topics related to living through times of change, including stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, being present, making peace with change, how to practice yoga when you're experiencing physical changes, and how to practice meditation, breath practices, and yoga on your own, among others. Become more content through life's ups and downs by learning to live your everyday life the yogic way.
Yoga was originally designed to make you calmer, steadier, and more content, not just stronger and healthier. This guide offers many ways you can use yoga as a healthy coping mechanism when you're confronted with the physical, emotional, and mental changes that life brings you. It covers both ancient and modern techniques—including yoga poses, breathing practices, relaxation, mantras, and meditation—that allow you to return yourself to balance when you're experiencing challenges, and to fortify yourself for the future.
Nina Zolotow covers myriad topics related to living through times of change, including stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, being present, making peace with change, how to practice yoga when you're experiencing physical changes, and how to practice meditation, breath practices, and yoga on your own, among others. Become more content through life's ups and downs by learning to live your everyday life the yogic way.
304 pages, Paperback
Published June 14, 2022
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November 19, 2022
Nina Zolotow has attempted to write a book covering a lot of topics on how to live through change, this could include managing stress, grief, distress. She has quite a few practical tips for sequences using the breath and meditations.
The book was easy to read and the pictures as well as poses were truly accessible. The stories in the book were a nice way to personalize how people have adopted the practices I just wonder who this book is for. There are some practices which are offered yet not described like alternate nostril breathing of which there are numerous ways to do it. Then others are described in detail so a person who has done it with a teacher could pick it up on their own.
In the end the book was just ok. I am not sure I agreed with the sequences but like all things yoga is really about the individual journey.
The book was easy to read and the pictures as well as poses were truly accessible. The stories in the book were a nice way to personalize how people have adopted the practices I just wonder who this book is for. There are some practices which are offered yet not described like alternate nostril breathing of which there are numerous ways to do it. Then others are described in detail so a person who has done it with a teacher could pick it up on their own.
In the end the book was just ok. I am not sure I agreed with the sequences but like all things yoga is really about the individual journey.
October 7, 2023
As yoga practice and reference books go, this is one of the best. Everything is clearly explained, and the organization has much to offer students and teachers alike. I particularly enjoy (and will return to) chapter on Stress Management, on Anger, Anxiety and Depression, on Grief, on Adapting to Physical Changes, and the last two chapters on Presence and Peace (via pranayama, meditation and general attitude shifts). There is also a short but very pithy 9-poinr guide in How to Stay Safe in one's practice. All in all, superb.
February 25, 2023
Sorry. I'm too zen to taste this chicken.
It's not the book's fault that it's too similar to other books, but there's nothing new for me here. However, it would be valuable for someone new to yoga and experiencing physical/emotional pain.
It's not the book's fault that it's too similar to other books, but there's nothing new for me here. However, it would be valuable for someone new to yoga and experiencing physical/emotional pain.
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