Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain: An Eight-Week Mindful Yoga Workbook for Finding Relief and Resilience (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Product Description

Based on the popular Mindful Yoga program developed at Duke University, this book will help you soothe your body and calm your mind—bringing gentle relief to the physical and mental suffering caused by chronic pain.
If you live with chronic pain, you need solutions now to help you feel better and get back to living your life. If you’re looking for an alternative to pharmaceutical pain medication, yoga is powerful practice for managing pain and building resilience. Based on the proven-effective Mindful Yoga program developed by the authors at Duke University, this safe and easy-to-use book—accessible for all levels of fitness and mobility—has everything you need to get started today.
In this workbook, you’ll find an eight-step, integrative approach drawing on both modern western medicine and the ancient wisdom of the yoga tradition. The gentle poses and practices in this book are informed by a state-of-the-art understanding of physiology, and can be safely used to help alleviate pain associated with several common health problems, such as arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, and more.
This is not a book about getting into pretzel positions or sitting on a yoga mat for hours. This is a book about gentle, easy, and calming yoga that will help you manage your pain and improve your overall well-being.

Review

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Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain is the rare resource that combines insights from modern neuroscience and psychology, wisdom from long-practiced healing traditions, and tremendous compassion for the experience of living with chronic pain. I highly recommend this book and the practices in it.”
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Kelly McGonigal, PhD, author of
Yoga for Pain Relief

“Einstein defined genius as making the complex simple.
Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain is genius. This book is so accessible with simple, powerful practices for the reader while still conveying the depth and complexity of our best understanding of pain. The weaving together of the information, activities, and reflection exercises offers safe, comprehensive, and appropriate support for those living with persistent pain. The book would also make an outstanding student workbook for yoga teachers and therapists to offer eight-week training programs in their community. The reader will enjoy and benefit from ‘riding the wave’ of this masterful guidebook.”
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Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, C-IAYT, director of SmartSafeYoga, national yoga safety expert, and author of
Yoga Therapy as a Creative Response to Pain

“This book is a gem! Easily understandable in its text, illustrations, and guided meditations, this is an excellent choice that is likely to inform and help anyone living with chronic pain. The authors have many years of dedicated personal practice experience with both mindfulness and yoga. In addition, they have extensive experience teaching and training others to use these approaches in the service of better health and more effective management of serious medical conditions like chronic pain. Their expertise, dedication, and beautiful compassion shine throughout this work!”
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Jeffrey Brantley, MD, founding faculty member at Duke Integrative Medicine; assistant consulting professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center; author of
Calming Your Anxious Mind; and coauthor of the
Five Good Minutes series

“This book is a standout among yoga guides. It is supported by both empiric scientific data and Jim Carson’s experience living in India as a monk in the yoga tradition. This truly unique guide to reclaiming yourself through mindful yoga is life-changing. Learn to ‘ride the waves’ and start enjoying your life again, today.”
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Kim Dupree Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and dean of Linfield School of Nursing; research faculty at Oregon Health and Science University; and chronic pain researcher who has produced over 400 peer-reviewed papers, presentations, and chapters, and has been supported by federal,