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Yoga and Fertility: A Journey to Health and Healing
Author(s): Jill Petigara (Author), Lynn Jensen (Author)
- Publisher: Demos Health
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781936303328
- ISBN-13: 9781936303328
Book Description
“Yoga and Fertility: A Journey to Health and Healing” is for those who have never done yoga before, as well as those with yoga experience, or who are currently taking a yoga class. Personal stories are woven into the text, so that women can relate to the author and others who have struggled with fertility challenges. The book includes suggestions for friends and family members to help them better understand the issues. It offers yoga practices that women or couples struggling with fertility can do at home, or can use to modify their current yoga practices to better support fertility. It helps women better understand some of the impediments to fertility, and how yoga practices can help overcome these. It showcases personal stories of women who have successfully used yoga during their fertility journey. It motivates women and couples to use simple yoga, breathing and meditation practices to reduce the stress involved in fertility challenges. It briefly discusses other ways to support fertility, including diet, lifestyle, exercise, and complementary medicine such as acupuncture and massage.
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About the Author
Jill Petigara is an Anusara-inspired yoga teacher and a member of the Yoga Alliance. Her classes draw from several different traditions including Iyengar, Vinyasa, and Anusara Yoga. Jill has taught yoga in a variety of settings including schools, studios, nursing homes, and corporate fitness facilities. She is a certified elementary school teacher, and has experience teaching yoga to children and teens. She hosts a tele-seminar Yoga for Fertility for RESOLVE the national infertility association
Lynn Jensen, RYT, MBA, offers Yoga for Fertility classes, workshops, retreats and private instruction in Seattle and Bellevue. The classes are designed for women or couples who are currently trying to conceive, either naturally or through assisted reproductive treatment programs. To date, Lynn’s classes have helped over a thousand women and couples on their journey to parenthood.
In addition to teaching Yoga for Fertility and all levels of Hatha Yoga, Lynn coteaches the Mind/Body program at the Northwest Center for Reproductive Sciences in Kirkland, and the Pacific Northwest Fertility clinic in Seattle. In 2006, she developed and taught the yoga curriculum for a University of Washington study, funded by the National Institute of Health, researching the effect of yoga on hot flashes.
Lynn Jensen, RYT, MBA, offers Yoga for Fertility classes, workshops, retreats and private instruction in Seattle and Bellevue. The classes are designed for women or couples who are currently trying to conceive, either naturally or through assisted reproductive treatment programs. To date, Lynn’s classes have helped over a thousand women and couples on their journey to parenthood.
In addition to teaching Yoga for Fertility and all levels of Hatha Yoga, Lynn coteaches the Mind/Body program at the Northwest Center for Reproductive Sciences in Kirkland, and the Pacific Northwest Fertility clinic in Seattle. In 2006, she developed and taught the yoga curriculum for a University of Washington study, funded by the National Institute of Health, researching the effect of yoga on hot flashes.
