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Yoga and Parkinson's Disease: A Journey to Health and Healing
Author(s): Peggy Van Hulsteyn (Author), Scott Sherman MD PhD (Foreword), Barbara Gage (Editor), Connie Fisher (Editor)
- Publisher: Demos Health
- Publication Date: 17 Oct. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 144 pages
- ISBN-10: 1936303507
- ISBN-13: 9781936303502
Book Description
Ease stiffness, improve strength and balance, and relieve stress with gentle, easy yoga postures.
Yoga is one of the most beneficial complementary therapies for Parkinson√ås disease (PD), helping to increase flexibility, correct posture, loosen tight, painful muscles, build confidence, and in general, enhance the quality of life. Peggy van Hulsteyn, who was diagnosed with PD 12 years ago, has experienced these benefits firsthand. In Yoga and Parkinson’s Disease, van Hulsteyn draws on her 40-year yoga practice, collaborating with two certified yoga teachers to provide an accessible, easy-to-follow, and encouraging guide for bringing the benefits of yoga into your life, even if you’ve never done yoga before.
Yoga and ParkinsonÌs Disease includes:
- Step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow photographs
- Seated and assisted postures for those with limited mobility and unsteadiness
- Postures that can be done in bed to help you start your day
- Variations to ensure comfort and safety
- Tips for making practice easy, approachable, and sustainable
And much more
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Editorial Reviews
Review
“A must-read for the recently diagnosed or people at any stage of Parkinson’s disease. Her practical tips and well-explained poses will help anyone with Parkinson’s explore ways to live as fully as possible. Van Hulsteyn guides the reader living with the disease to view yoga as a healing practice that will increase flexibility and mobility.” -Joyce Oberdorf, president and CEO, National Parkinson Foundation
About the Author
Peggy van Hulsteyn is an accomplished author and speaker who has practiced yoga for over four decades.
Barbara Gage is a Certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, with training from the Kripalu Yoga Institute in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her classes feature the classical yoga postures, meditation, breathing practices and reading from the sanskrit texts. She has been a yoga teacher for 35 years and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Connie Fisher has studied yoga with Gary Kraftsow, founder of the American Viniyoga Institute. She is a Doctor of Oriental medicine, a massage therapist, and since 2008, a Viniyoga Instructor. In 2012 she became certified in Yoga Therapy from the American Viniyoga Institute in California. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
