Yoga for Common Ailments

Based on a system developed by the Vivekananda Yoga Therapy and Research Foundation

Yoga is a holistic science of wellbeing that brings healing from within. The three-layered approach of yoga therapy-relaxing the muscles, slowing the breathing, and calming the mind-restores inner harmony and

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counteracts the stress that underlies many common diseases. Yoga for Common Ailments shows you how to use yogic ideas and practices to reduce these inner tensions and heal yourself naturally.

Using step-by-step instructions and over 75 illustrations, Yoga for Common Ailments guides you through a basic session for maintaining health and fitness. Then it explans how to construct a yoga program tailored to treating more than 35 common ailmens, including:

Asthma, Back pain, Bronchitis, Cancer, Common colds and flu, Depression, Diabetes, Fatigue, Heat disease, Hypertension, Insomnia, Obesity, Premenstrual syndrome

A companion volume to Foods for Common Ailments and Massage for Common Ailments, this book presents a natural way to health, and helps you cope with ths strain imposed by modern life.

Contents

Introduction
1 The basic session
Before you start
Asanas
Relaxation
Pranayama
Meditation
Emotion culturing
Diet and lifestyle
2 The ailments
Whole body
Circulation
Respiration
Digestion
Reproduction
Nervous system
Eyes

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