More than just an exercise program, Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer is a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical expression of the heart's fierce desires for courage, strength, and love. Designed specifically for people with all types of cancer and at any stage of the disease, Healing Yoga is an effective and safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility both during and following cancer treatments. Appropriate for both beginners and experienced yoga practitioners, this book features: § Clear explanations of the emotional and physical benefits of practicing yoga during and after cancer treatments § Safety guidelines for people in active treatment for cancer § Four complete yoga sequences taught with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrated with eighty photographs § "Doctor's Okay" icons on each of the forty yoga poses § Adaptations to meet readers' changing needs
 Sell Back Your Copy for $19.20
Whether you buy it used on Amazon for $19.20 or somewhere else, you can sell it back through our Book Trade-In Program at the current price of $19.20.
|
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
The clear text and wonderful photos in Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer provide an excellent guide to help the cancer patient gain strength and determination to fight the disease with dignity and to focus on the ultimate objective with a new vigor that can only generate a new strength and inner courage. (Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D. )
The clear text and wonderful photos in Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer provide an excellent guide to help the cancer patient gain strength and determination to fight the disease with dignity and to focus on the ultimate objective with a new vigor that can only generate a new strength and inner courage. (Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D. )
The healing power of yoga for people living with cancer has been at the heart of The Commonweal and Smith Farm Cancer Help Programs for the past twenty years. Lisa Holtby does us all a great service with this elegant and inspiring guide to what healing yoga can do for you. (Lerner, Michael )
Lisa Holtby's Healing Yoga is a significant contribution to the developing field of yoga therapy. People facing cancer treatment will find gentle guidance for using yoga to maintain and develop physical stamina through treatment and in recovery. (Jnani Chapman, RN )
A friendly, playful and easy-to-use guide of yoga routines, this book is designed specifically for people who are in active cancer treatment and early recovery stages. Healing Yoga presents a unique combination of gentle stretching, consious breathing, and safe, strength-building body positions to recover from the effects of surgery, bed rest, and chemotherapy-induced fatigue. (Active Living Magazine )
A friendly, playful and easy-to-use guide of yoga routines, this book is designed specifically for people who are in active cancer treatment and early recovery stages. Healing Yoga presents a unique combination of gentle stretching, consious breathing, and safe, strength-building body positions to recover from the effects of surgery, bed rest, and chemotherapy-induced fatigue. (Active Living Magazine )
Should prove invaluable as a guide to moderate exercise during any debilitating disease. (Marilyn Bowden, Foreword Magazine )
The first yoga book written specifically for people with all types of cancer and at any stage of the disease. Holtby has clearly dedicated herself to helping people with cancer. The book is easy to follow and quite informative. With Healing Yoga, Lisa Holtby has lovingly offered her practice of yoga as a prescription to people living with cancer. (Vitality Magazine )
The first yoga book written specifically for people with all types of cancer and at any stage of the disease. Holtby has clearly dedicated herself to helping people with cancer. The book is easy to follow and quite informative. With Healing Yoga, Lisa Holtby has lovingly offered her practice of yoga as a prescription to people living with cancer. (Vitality Magazine )
Healing Yoga is a great book for cancer patients who want to begin yoga... (Cure )
Healing Yoga is a great book for cancer patients who want to begin yoga... (Cure )
Lisa Holtby gives people with cancer hope (D.K. Howe American Fitness )
The clear text and wonderful photos in Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer provide an excellent guide to help the cancer patient gain strength and determination to fight the disease with dignity and to focus on the ultimate objective with a new vigor that can only generate a new strength and inner courage. (Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D. )
The healing power of yoga for people living with cancer has been at the heart of The Commonweal and Smith Farm Cancer Help Programs for the past twenty years. Lisa Holtby does us all a great service with this elegant and inspiring guide to what healing yoga can do for you. (Lerner, Michael )
Lisa Holtby's Healing Yoga is a significant contribution to the developing field of yoga therapy. People facing cancer treatment will find gentle guidance for using yoga to maintain and develop physical stamina through treatment and in recovery. (Jnani Chapman, RN )
A friendly, playful and easy-to-use guide of yoga routines, this book is designed specifically for people who are in active cancer treatment and early recovery stages. Healing Yoga presents a unique combination of gentle stretching, consious breathing, and safe, strength-building body positions to recover from the effects of surgery, bed rest, and chemotherapy-induced fatigue. (Active Living Magazine )
A friendly, playful and easy-to-use guide of yoga routines, this book is designed specifically for people who are in active cancer treatment and early recovery stages.
Should prove invaluable as a guide to moderate exercise during any debilitating disease. (Marilyn Bowden, Foreword Magazine )
The first yoga book written specifically for people with all types of cancer and at any stage of the disease. Holtby has clearly dedicated herself to helping people with cancer. The book is easy to follow and quite informative. With Healing Yoga, Lisa Holtby has lovingly offered her practice of yoga as a prescription to people living with cancer. (Vitality Magazine )
The first yoga book written specifically for people with all types of cancer and at any stage of the disease. Holtby has clearly dedicated herself to helping people with cancer. The book is easy to follow and quite informative. With Healing Yoga, Lisa Holtby has lovingly offered her practice of yoga as a prescription to people living with cancer. (Vitality Magazine )
Healing Yoga is a great book for cancer patients who want to begin yoga... (Cure )
Healing Yoga is a great book for cancer patients who want to begin yoga... (Cure )
Lisa Holtby gives people with cancer hope (D.K. Howe American Fitness )
From the Publisher
More than an exercise program, Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer is a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical expression of the heart's fierce desires for courage, strength, and love. Designed specially for people with all types of cancer at any stage of the disease, Healing Yoga is an effective and saf way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility both during and following concer treatments.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic yoga book,
By Cancer Doctor, Cancer Patient (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer (Paperback)
I am an oncologist being treated for breast cancer. I've done yoga off and on for years, but mostly haven't been up to going to classes during my treatment. The sequences in this book have helped a lot with both the mental/emotional stress of treatment and the stiffness of being less active than usual. Although it is a little challenging to do yoga from a book, I like the greater flexibility and ability to take things at my own pace compared to videos.
Some of the features I like: -excellent introduction to breathing and meditation -good guidelines for how to listen to your body and practice safely during your treatment -sequences of poses of varying difficulty level (including one sequence that is all seated in a chair) so you can tailor your routine to what you feel up to, or combine them for a longer practice -each pose is illustrated with 2 photographs, contains clear instructions on how to set up properly and good instructions on how to focus your mind and body during the pose. Almost as good as having a teacher with you! Highly recommended for people new to yoga, and for people familiar with yoga who need a modified home practice during their cancer treatment. Namaste.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice design, generally helpful,
By
This review is from: Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer (Paperback)
i bought this book as i was preparing to begin teaching yoga at a cancer center. i'm a certified teacher with lots of experience in yoga as therapy, but have little experience working with the physical, emotional and mental effects of cancer and wanted insight into how it feels to have cancer and what limitations one comes up against depending on what type of cancer is present. i found the text content about the experience of cancer to be helpful in my preparations, but the asana seemed dry and predictable and lacking in images of modifications. after working with the patients, it dawned on me that any book that teaches gentle yoga is just as good as this if you are viewing it purely from an asana standpoint. the way i teach is student-centered and individualized for the life experience of the student, so there is no broad formula that can be applied. i was looking for more specific information on modification for people with ports, recent surgeries and drug side effects and i still haven't found a resource that merges medical science with gentle asana, pranayama and meditation (in something smaller than a textbook!). The pictures are helpful, the sorting of postures is intuitive, the text is real and the design is attractive, but if you're looking for something more than a picture book of gentle asana, this might not meet your needs.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Moves,
By Candy Lady (Louisville,KY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book for those of us who are cancer survivors. It allows you to go at your own pace and not feel "less than".
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Welcome! Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer is based on my two years of teaching yoga classes for Cancer Lifeline and is a compilation of my students' favorite sequences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Half Moon, Resting Child, Seated Warrior, Seated Mountain, Seated Twist, Seated Wings, Fire Log, Seated Cat, Forward Fold New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Welcome! Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer is based on my two years of teaching yoga classes for Cancer Lifeline and is a compilation of my students' favorite sequences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Half Moon, Resting Child, Seated Warrior, Seated Mountain, Seated Twist, Seated Wings, Fire Log, Seated Cat, Forward Fold New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
