Yoga for emotional balance : simple practices to help relieve anxiety and depression

by Bo Forbes

Paperback, 2011

Publication

Imprint: Boston : Shambhala, 2011. Responsibility: Bo Forbes ; photographs by Thibaut Fagonde. OCLC Number: 606763721. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Features: Includes appendix, bibliography, resources.

Call number

Yoga / Forbe

Barcode

BK-08030

ISBN

9781590307601

CSS Library Notes

Description: Forbes introduces a blend of yoga and relaxation she has used in her psychotherapy practice to help readers relieve anxiety and depression. In this book, she explains how our physical body and emotions are interconnected, and how yoga can impact our emotional well-being.

Table of Contents: Yoga's role in emotional balance --
The path to emotional balance --
Breathwork and restorative yoga.

FY2019 /

Physical description

xv, 236 p.; 23 cm

Description

An integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress through yoga and breath exercises Emotional balance is within your reach--when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, offers some of her most important teachings and practices, including:    * Restorative yoga sequences designed to balance anxiety and lift depression    * Breath and body-centered exercises to calm your mind and energize your body    * Simple ways to understand your emotional patterns    * 3 main obstacles to emotional well-being    * 5 tools for building emotional balance Rooted in classical yoga yet supported by psychology and science, the techniques in this book will help you create progressive and lasting change.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

User reviews

LibraryThing member melodyaw
Bo Forbes, a longtime therapist and also a yoga practitioner, struggled with the disconnect she saw between the physical and emotional therapy worlds. Often, she says, “we can feel, rather than think, the emotional experiences that heal us.” Instead of just talking through emotional patterns,
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she began introducing breathwork and restorative yoga poses into her clients’ therapy plans.

This was a time before the emotionally healing benefits of yoga truly took hold in Western society, and Forbes was amazed by the transformation she saw in her patients. Rather than repeating the same mental “stories” over and over in therapy sessions, her patients began to address—and overcome—their negative emotional patterns by physically incorporating emotional balance.

Restorative yoga is based on the idea that the mind and the body speak to each other more often when we think. It combines the physical motions of yoga with the mental workout of meditation, thereby embodying the emotional healing process.

Forbes presents the medical explanations for why yoga has such an astounding effect on our health, and she introduces five ways to transform one’s emotional patterns: calming the nervous system; regulating the breath; connecting with direct experience; quieting the mind; and changing the narratives you tell yourself that reflect your self-concept and world view.

She then outlines the differences between those who suffer anxiety, depression, or some blend of both. According to the kind of anxiety-depression afflicting you—and this can change as your emotional patterns change—Forbes then recommends restorative poses that will help calm or reinvigorate your nervous system.

I truly enjoyed this book. It illuminates the often murky world of emotional imbalance, while also offering simple, no-equipment-required solutions. This review could’ve been a lot longer; I underlined and bookmarked countless passages. I would recommend this to anyone interested in a medicine-free way to ease stress and develop healthy emotional patterns.

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LibraryThing member cindywho
I'm lucky because I actually get to take yoga classes from this teacher - so I was curious about her book. The execution is a little awkward with some repetition and a few odd bits, but the techniques and information that she imparts are very interesting and helpful. She integrates insight
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meditation with breath and restorative yoga, with the intent of getting the mind and body on board with healing anxiety and depression. I haven't yet attempted the yoga part outside of class, but the breathing is great for calming anxiety. She is an active trainer of yoga teachers, so I hope the adoption of her techniques will expand into yoga land.
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