Amy Weintraub
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute and author of the best-selling Yoga for Depression and the groundbreaking Yoga Skills for Therapists, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for more than 20 years. She trains health and yoga professionals and offers workshops for practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga protocol is being used in residential treatment centers and hospitals and by health-care providers throughout the world. Amy is involved in ongoing research into the effects of yoga on mood, and has produced an award-winning library of evidence-based yoga and meditation CDs and DVDs for mood management.
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Resources
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My Journey out of Darkness: Yoga for Releasing Depression
There were moments in that first yoga class when, through my focus on sensation and breath, I had a glimmer of my true nature through the fog of depression.
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A LifeForce Yoga Breathing Practice to Ease Anxiety and Depression
We can stop a ruminative chain of thoughts or a negative mood state in its tracks with one of many simple yogic breathing exercises, or pranayama.
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Two Easy Yoga Practices to Lift Your Mood
There are specific yoga practices that can help lift the mood and sustain a positive outlook.
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A Meditation for Managing Your Mood When Conflict Arises
We’ve all had experiences where we’ve felt unjustly attacked or betrayed. Yet, when an incident disturbs our peace of mind, we have choices.
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Losing Ground, Gaining Altitude
Both my parents are gone now. Their journey homeward was a steady loss of ground for them both but, in the loss of ground, my father gained altitude of a different sort, an ultimate sense of gratitude for the smallest of pleasures. My mother did not.
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My Journey Back to Fiction, via Kripalu
Before Amy Weintraub's first visit to Kripalu in 1989, she was a fiction writer suffering from depression. Once she began practicing and then teaching Kripalu Yoga, her life—and eventually her writing—transformed.
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How to Stay Grounded, Even in Flight: Mindful Remedies for Travel Anxiety
Travel can trigger new phobias: too many people, too many germs, too much movement when we want to be still, too much stillness when we long to move. Author and Kripalu teacher Lara Tupper went in search of wisdom for navigating the discomfort of being out of control.
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Training the Judgy Brain
That girl isn't pretty enough to be that annoying. WHAT? WHAT did you just think? Who ARE you? Oh, right. I'm me. Hi. My name is Valerie and I have a...
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Turning Point Q&A with Amy Weintraub
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, is the author of the books Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists, and creator of the award-winning DVD series...
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