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YOGA for AMPUTEES: The Essential Guide to Finding Wholeness After Limb Loss for Yoga Students and Their Teachers
Contributor(s): Danzig, Marsha Therese (Author)
ISBN: 0974485845     ISBN-13: 9780974485843
Publisher: Sacred Oak Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Health & Fitness | Yoga
- Sports & Recreation | Disability Sports
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Celtic Spirituality
Physical Information: 1.21" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" (2.35 lbs) 446 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Mentally Challenged
- Topical - Physically Challenged
- Topical - New Age
- Topical - Health & Fitness
 
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Yes You can practice yoga as an amputee This book will show you how. DISCOVER powerful yoga practices to build your balance, strength, confidence and body awareness. LEARN how to adapt your yoga to your individual level of limb loss. REDUCE pain and stress due to limb loss. IGNITE your life with inner and outer transformation. MOTIVATE your amputee clients to better health and well-being in your clinic or rehabilitation hospital.
Yoga offers amputees the flexibility, strength and stamina they are seeking, while also providing emotional, mental and spiritual well-being to help amputees of all levels thrive in life. Featuring step by step poses modeled by fellow amputees, with detailed adaptations for leg and arm amputees, as well as yoga tools specific to amputee challenges, such as yoga for phantom pain, Yoga for Amputees: The Essential Guide to Finding Wholeness After Limb Loss is a comprehensive guide for both amputees and the people who work with them. A must for any amputee wanting to reclaim their health and wellness after limb loss or anyone working in rehabilitation who wants to add yoga to their patient care plan, such as prosthetists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, recreational therapists, kinesiologists and physicians.

Contributor Bio(s): Danzig, Marsha Therese: - Marsha Therese Danzig, C-IAYT, RYT 500, M.Ed Harvard, a below knee amputee and longtime yoga educator, is the founder of Yoga For Amputees(R), an adaptive approach to body, mind and spirit conditioning which greatly enhances well-being for the lives of amputees world-wide. Marsha's mission is to help amputees reclaim their wholeness through yoga. She considers yoga a healing medicine. This is her fifth book.